OUGD402- Studio Brief 02- Self Branding

Things to consider

Who are you now? 

What have you learned? 

What skills do you have?

What do you know? 

What do you believe? 

In answering these questions remember that your design practice is informaed by a broad range of social, ethical, creative and professional concerns. What are they?

What information do you need to include? 

What formats can you use to effectively communicate or promote this information? 

What tone of voice best reflects you, your practice and your ambitions? What experiences have shaped your opinions and views both in and outside of the programme?
What are your creative concerns, opinions and beliefs and how do you communicate these practically, conceptually a practically? 

What has informed these decsions and who are the contextual references that reflect your individual focus?What is 'Brand You'? 

Your visual identity will help tie the information together. What fonts, formats, colours and production methods will help communicate and enhance your content.

What I want to reflect in my self branding is a fun, interesting yet sophisticated approach. I would like to incorporate fun or humour as I find this to be relevant in a lot work I like and some of my own too. I also like using different medias and textures other than just typography or digital work. I would like to show this in my self branding, perhaps by creating a print and using that, or even using hand rendered illustration.

The information I need to include is my name, or what I want to be recognised as, contact details, and hopefully the self branding itself will communicate the type of work I can do.

In a way Modernist views have slightly influenced me as I would like my card to be easily informative and legible, giving the information easily and effectively to the viewer.

I am unsure to what part of graphic design I would preferably put myself in to. I like working as a team but also feel that I am quite a perfectionist and like to work on things individually too, I like all areas of graphic design at the moment, I am yet to specialise in just one yet. 

If I were to narrow it down, at the moment I like branding, print, editorial design and publication design. I would rather work with an agency than free lance as I think I need more of a structure to follow by.