Self Branding



I thought it would be wise to finally give myself a recognizable brand to which people could associate quality designs, and a level of freshness that was unique to myself.

I started out like any good designer would, with a pen, and a single piece of paper. I drew out a number of hand written logo styles, aiming for something that would be more street oriented, I didn't want to have a clean logo or ident, it's far too corporate and doesn't represent me as an individual.
The name "siman32" is a one I've used for many years, and it only took me a matter of seconds to settle on it. It's origin comes back to a time many years ago, during a heated game of guitar hero, when entering my name into the hi-scores I accidentally misspelled my name, although it was clearly intentional as it represents my manly manness. Also 32 is just my lucky number.

www.siman32.co.uk 

Seb Lester talk.

So, Seb Lester came in and gave us a little sneak preview of a talk that he was set to be giving around the country at our college.

The main things that I took on from his little talk, was that to be super successful in your own area of work, you have to really be willing to put the hours in, and be on top of what you're doing 24/7, and eat, breath and live what you do.  
Also you have to be a little bit weird, and a little bit awkward apparently. 

Seb, is probably best known as a type artist and illustrator, having produced typefaces for clients such as Apple, Nike, Intel, The New York Times,
The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and JD Salinger's final
reissue of The Catcher in the Rye. 


I found that his talk actually helped me to begin to produce a higher standard of work, by giving me the motivation to actually put the time in to practice what I do, and strive to start putting out the best work that I can. 

Digital Applications

My digital applications PDF is too big to display, so I can't embed it into my blog, so here is a link to it if anybody wished to download it: Download here

Final Designs.




First draft ideas.