Monday, 6 May 2019

Self Branding: Business Cards - Design Development

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The business cards developed alongside the postcard pack in order to maintain a consistent and coherent brand strategy. 


With my new logotype in place, I needed to evolve the design in a way that highlighted the key concepts of me as playful, sustainable, inclusive, social and a strong believer of the old informing the new / learning from mistakes.  

Film photography has been a large part of my practice for the last two years, with the extended compositions attracting most of my external freelance jobs. As such, it was felt this should be the basis of the branding – the accentuation of colour and line within a composition. The design therefore evolved in accordance with this, with the idea of producing a postcard series that would both show off what I can do, and send a positive message. This was a great way to include some of my compositional work, and to find a relevant context for them.

The final postcard  images were colour swatched to get a relevant and vibrant palette in place for the branding guidelines. A series of the most successful five colours were chosen that best encompass the series and my tastes. The colour scheme is both vibrant and neutral responding to the scope of varied tastes of employers and clients I will intend to be reaching.  

These colours then informed the production of the business cards. The layout utilised the conventional design grid in a colourful way, and a slight noise texture was added to reflect the film photography in the postcard pack, and allude to my practice of combining the analogue with the digital.

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