DISQUS

Misty Belardo · 7 months ago

I love it.. made me think of doing a design for my own logo identity. It's pretty clever way of doing a representation of your persona. You truly inspire creativity.

Max Stanworth · 7 months ago

Pretty neat idea Graham and it certainly represents you as a brand.

Thoughts: One thing you could possibly try is reducing the stroke weight around the face / mouth, it appears too thick to me at a glance. maybe...

Misty Belardo · 7 months ago

I get your idea.. since you want it to look more you, hence the shadow and the line around the mouth.. yeah i agree with Max, it's just a bit too thick the stroke on the mouth, making it look like you have thick lips.. just my two cents.. = )

martinalejandro · 7 months ago

I would take a closer look at the 'eyes' of the icon. It's cool to create an iconic identity that, as you say, could be used for favico, icons, simbols, avatar, etc. However, I've seen your work, and let me say that this identity isn't quite saying 'Graham Smith'. It's just an opinion, but I relate you more to logos with no icons, pictograms or symbols. I see you as an Helvetica Neue Thin. 35 or 45, you choose.

I know there's a lot of helvetica logos arround. I'm just not sure about your cartoonish new image. It would be a majour change, I think you already know that.

Just leaving some thoughts, keep us posted on your work. It's really cool that you could relate to your brand, create a bon with it, play, and take the time that ir required (own brands are sooooo difficult).

Greetings man.

Graham Smith · 7 months ago

Max & Misty : Really appreciate you both dropping by. You are both totally right about the beard aspect, so have made some changes to the initial drawing and will post that later.

Thanks again

Graham Smith · 7 months ago

MARTINALEJANDRO : Thanks for the well thought out reply. I totally see what you are saying.

This is something I have thought about a lot. Previous my identity has been a bit of a 'sleeper' in terms of the type only logo etc. My personal brand seems to be stronger than the logo, which is why I wanted to draw upon the success of my beanie and shades, dark and mysterious vibe.

People connect with that. So the logo was trying to flip the dark photographic avatar with a cartoon version of me, to balance the mood out so to speak, whilst still retaining a clear link.

I have kept the logotype sensible and stylish to also balance out the cartoon effect of the icon.

It's early days, so need to live with it for a while, but thanks for the comment, totally spot on.

Misty Belardo · 7 months ago

It's perfect! I love it = )

Chris Rossi · 7 months ago

Hey Graham,
I love the cartoon concept! It is fun and has quite a personality. I also love the one with the goatee and agree it looks great without the heavy outline.

A couple thoughts, for what their worth :)

I like that you are working on making the beanie look more hat-like, but what if you just emphasized the line-texture of the bottom band of the beanie rather than roughing it all over.

I think it definitely looks like a hat now but with the top thingy it has more of a beatnik feel. (Not that this is bad, just not sure if that is the look you are going for)

Im not sure how it will look but just an idea if you still feel like playing with it.

It's fun to see the process and progression, thanks for sharing it with us.

Chris :)

Max Stanworth · 7 months ago

Pretty hard this branding your self malarky, ive tried to come up with a feasable brand for my self many times and just cant ... (haha)

Apreciated that you did a revision on the comments you received. if im totally honest theres just something no quite right still from my view, its really hard to put a finger on. ( that probably doest help much.)

im sure youll keep us posted on any further developments its really intresting to read about personal branding.

Pamela · 7 months ago

Hi
Didn't realize this was your logo redesign also. I guess you know my vote is the Oakley's.
Just adding that bit of cyan (oops, that's the print in me) rocks it!

Perhaps you can pull the color into "just" and ".com" as you did in you last logo.

There's my humble opinion. I think it's great!!!
Pam

KimGo · 7 months ago

I think it is fun and I really like the idea of different avatars.

Max Stanworth · 7 months ago

Thought id check back, haha i think there great those little mood logos, really growing on me tbh, i can imagine seeing a poster with all these on,

Amanda Vlahakis · 7 months ago

I can't help but think that many of them look a tad like photofits (for criminals). I think the beanies/hats/beards aren't helping :)

A business contact of mine has done the same as this for her brand; www.allwords.co.uk - she has several cartoon alteregos she uses around her marketing.