links for 2008-06-30
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Archive for June, 2008
Daily Photo: Lying in Wait
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Privaaate eyes, they’re watching you… they see your. everrryyy moooove….
Three Design Business Concepts
Filed Under: Web Design
I am reaching a point where I think I need to brand my creative services with its own website, portfolio, and so on. So I’ve been trying to brainstorm some business names and concepts I can design the site around. I haven’t really hit on anything solid yet, but here are some of the ideas I’ve bounced around on my IM list and in my own head. Sarah’s tired of hearing about them, so now you get to instead!
“Monster Stomp Studios”
Logo Concept: A daikaiju monster from a low angle, lifting a massive foot to DESTROY!
Tagline: “Small Studio. Big ideas.”
Disadvantages: I am not the world’s greatest illustrator, and I want a cartoony illustration for that logo, I think. Like a chibi Godzilla knockoff. So I’d probably have to outsource the illustration to another designer and that doesn’t look good on my main work site to have done that. I need the design to be completely my work. So if I stick with this one, I’ll have to really work hard in sketching and illustrator to create a good logo. I need to learn to draw better anyway!
Write Design
Site Concept: Natural media, paper, pencils, inks. Lots of editorial style marks on things, correcting typos. Focusing on the written word. Great typography, lots of handwriting.
Tagline: “Design solutions for authors and publishers.”
Disadvantage: My concept is meaningful, but there are a million Write Design websites out there. It’s too common of an idea, and I almost certainly won’t be using this one, which is sad because I like the idea of making a website with real paper. Which leads me to the next
Little Fish Big Pond Studio
Logo/site concept: construction paper! Blue sea background, stylized fish and other sea cutouts here and there. Maybe some javascript animating a few moving around. Masthead involves a bunch of little fish in a school, with one solo fish a different color out leading the pack.
Tagline: “How do little fish survive in the big blue sea? They stick together.”
Disadvantages: A few other design companies out there using a similar concept. This one positions me specifically as being a small business designer, which may be a niche I don’t want to put myself into. I really like the design concept though, and now I just cannot help but want to build a site out of construction paper cutouts. It would look awesome!
Other ideas/concepts that aren’t ripe yet:
- something that can play on science fiction
- something spinning off of Roundbottom?
- something super grungy and crunchy
- something that I can use my photography skills for
- Something about Kansas, using the tall grass prairie as a design element
- dinosaurs! (no, I don’t know what that means)
It’s hard work being a creative genius, but someone’s gotta do it. Eventually, I’m going to hit on the perfect concept that’s going to show my skills at their best. I know it. I just need a bit more time and thought. Advice is gladly accepted.
links for 2008-06-29
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Some useful jQuery examples here.
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I am not sure why I would want to do this, but just in case…
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Not stellar design, but funny!
