As I am quite clearly rubbish at logos I decided to get in touch with a graphic designer to help me bring my ideas to life. I drew up some ideas of what I wanted and showed a 3rd year graphic design student Victoria Redmond my ideas. I briefly knew Victoria but was not sure how she would respond when I asked her to help as I knew she would be really busy. To my surprise she was very generous in giving me her time. I liked the idea of shapes as we spoke about the hexagons and the idea of perhaps scrapping the Bow Down and using just my name. Victoria felt it would be more professional for me to use my name initially when looking for work and commissions then perhaps pursue a business later on under the name of Bow Down or whatever else I chose. I think this was a good idea because Bow Down would be a representation of the kind of work I like to create, I am interested in, but I am not always going to take commissions of funny explicit work. I am already taking on commissions I am not necessarily interested in in order to build a client base. Keeping it simple seemed the best option.
Working alongside Victoria was brilliant for me because she had ideas that were from a design perspective, I am not great with graphic design and typography, her ideas were very slick and this is exactly what I wanted. Although my work can be humorous I want to be taken seriously as a professional. She sent me some designs and I spoke to her about perhaps combining a few of them together, not all of them worked, but some aspects worked well with others such as I liked the idea of using a circle I thought this would translate well onto products, I liked the idea of combining the letters of my names together with words underneath and I asked her to edit some more for me further. She sent me the design and showed me how to edit them in illustrator. I changed the thickness of the circle and played around with the layout.
Victorias initial designs from my plans given to her
The final choices we came up with
I put to Victoria that I'd seen rectangular logos and that that may look better than a circle so she experimented with that but it did not come across how I would have hoped, something wasn't right so we went back to using a circle and came up with the final design
I was very grateful to Victoria for taking the time to sit and help me with my ideas especially as she is so bogged down with work at the minute, and we have gained a nice friendship out of it so I am pleased I had the courage to ask her to help.
Attempted a mock up of how it would look on business cards, didn't go very well! Can't get my head around the skew and perspective buttons yet
Mug
Coasters
90mm diameter, seems pretty small when printed on A4 but this will be better for my pack
Fridge magnets
Keyrings
Pen pot
The pot is 91 x 252mm
It has three sides which leaves me room of 91 x 84 mm to put a design on 3 times.
Badges
The badges are so small I think that any imagery would be too detailed to be that scale so the logo will be enough for this one
I really like Mr Bingo's stickers
I looked on moo at the stickers, and you can have 52 designs for 104 stickers. They cost around £24 which I am not sure about
I also feel it would be great for profile photos on social media sites such as Instagram, Tumblr, Behance, LinkedIn
I have been looking into possible products that could be part of a more flat pack to look more slick alongside the logo.
Rubix cubes etc seem too be too expensive so I will keep it low budget and things I can hand out.
I am looking at wholesalers that could send me blank fridge magnets, badges and keyrings.
Fridge magnets
The only issue with having a logo on these products would be whether it says enough about who I am and what I do. An image would say more about the kind of style I create; but my logo will be taken across on all advertisement sites so perhaps this is something I want to be more recognisable.
I need to ensure that I set up all other social media sights with the logo at the forefront in order to back up the products I am giving out.
The logo will also be seen on my creative CV and on thank you notes when sending out prints.
Coasters
I found a website called BlankPlastic which seemed to be really good pricing. You only have to buy in packs of 10 and it worked out pretty cheap.
I got quite carried away and ordered a lot of products but I feel that this will be great to advertise my logo
Not sure whether the illustrations work alongside the text so I may just have the logo on those
Edited to print
Seen as the bottle openers are double sided I would need 20 printing, then just added a few extra
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