OUGD402- Self Branding - Development

After having a break from my self branding as I didn't like anything I was designing I have come back to it again. I wanted to include some kind of shapes/patterns within my design as in my research I had seen many designs where they had used part of the logo to create a pattern on their stationery and I really like this idea as it works well across different mediums. 

I put my name in Futura and then adapted it slightly and used a triangle for the A as I thought I could perhaps create some patterns with triangles. After playing around with it I realised it looks a lot better with more spacing in between the letters. I am a lot happier with this logo than what I have previously came up with so am going to develop this design further. 

I started playing around using the triangle in my logo to make patterns, I started off keeping it black and white before adding some colour to it. Although I quite like it in black and white too but perhaps it looks a little harsh. 

I have started to experiment with colour within my branding, I have chosen green as this is one of my favourite colours as is grey and I think they work well together. I have also made a little phone and email icon for my business card design. 

After playing around with my business card design I also quite like just having contrasting block colours on the front and back as they look really clean and simple. I also really like this colour combination as it looks really fresh and works well together. 

I have come up with a number of different pattern variations for the back of my business card, I think when I print my business cards I may use a number of these patterns so that I have a few different business card designs as this makes it a little more interesting than them all being the same.