STUDIO: branding

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25.9.11

23.7.10

shameless self promotion

As a freelance designer/artist I have come to appreciate the idea of "branding" oneself. Here are a few things learned in my brief brainstorming process:

_I wanted my blog to have a vague name...something interesting but not something that would "pigeon hole" it.

_The name has to be completely unique (the hardest part)

_The name has to be versatile...something that can translate into a store name, a production company, a magazine etc. etc.

After a couple days of intense brainstorming, I finally came up with a name:
the hyper manikin

Not sure how focused I want it to be...or what I really want the blog to be about...but I feel like I shouldn't try to force anything...it will evolve naturally.

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22.7.09

Party Like It's 1811

You'd think that interpreting Victorian scroll work for a wedding invitation and branding would be fun. Actually, I'd hope you wouldn't. Given that the event's theme is inspired by Jane Austen's work (printed and set in the early 18oo's) and the scroll work is from a much later Victorian edition, this could only be fun if I were prophetically jacking the above late edition illustration of Sense and Sensibility to make the 1811 first edition cover. In that case I'm there, because clearly some reverse Ghost/Whoopi Goldberg stuff would be going on. Continue