I decided to not use my name directly to promote myself as a graphic designer. My name isn’t the most creative and I hated everything I came up with for logo designs. They weren’t bad just boring, uninspiring and forgettable. I know I could get more creative with my logo by using another name I thought. Coming up with a name is a task in and of itself but I think I’ve settled on one, hopefully.

First I was thinking about maybe incorporating my astrological sign some how, not that I’m into that stuff, I was brain storming here. My sign is Aquarius usually associated with creativity so not off to a bad start and my thought process was, Aquarius?? = Water?? = Sea!!. Bingo I like the word “Sea”. Then I was thinking of some of my interests and astronomy and sci-fi stuff came up so I thought of space/stars. Stars are mysterious/exciting/larger than life/simple yet so complex/ponderous, everything I want my designs to be. I know this space stuff is way over used IMO but I thought I had an original idea brewing here.

I thought of boats sailing under the stars and how back in the day sailors would use the stars for navigating. Then I choose Sea & Stars Graphic Design. It’s kind of a double entendre also; get it “seeing stars”. Anyway I thought it was clever. Those who never see the logo and just here the name may think it is Seeing Stars however I guess I’ll just have to take that “huge”risk I didn’t want to use the typical stars for this. I wanted it to be a little whimsical so I took a little inspiration from Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting where the stars look like swirls.

Anyway I am pleased with this so far and I will be doing minor tweaks here and there. Just wondering what yall thought? Only one version you might say, well yes I pictured this image very soon after I thought of the name and I loved the idea. The most work here was drawing the boat, picking a font, font placement, coming up with different stars and tweaking, tweaking, tweaking. This is the latest & best of that process.