Forget Trent Media,what about my Identity!

Hello reader, as you are probably aware by now i'm heavily into my idents project and i am actually quite fascinated by the whole issue of 'Identity' it can be taken in a number of different contexts and when you think about it it's so important. Identity defines who we are, defines who a company are, what they stand for, without Identity then you are nothing.


This got me thinking about my own Identity, what is it? What do i stand for? What do i represent? What do i beleive in? Where am i going, where have i been? How should i present my Identity to the world?


This train of thought led me to think about creating my own Identity, in the same way i'm creating one for Trent Media. I want to eventually move my blog to my own independently hosted site and i want that to be the basis for my new Identity. I want a place to showcase my work and who i am, and i want that place to be synonomous with my Identity.





I have been doing some research and have found some cool blogs which relate to what ive just been saying, take a look at these











This a blog i randomly stumbled across by a web designer called Christopher Scott. His blog is really nicely designed, and it contains lots of useful links for web design related stuff. It was of particular interest to me because he is currently in the process of re-designing his own logo and I.D and i found it helpful reading some of the commentary on that process.



http://www.christopher-scott.org/

This is the site for a company called Hicks Design, an oxford based web design company. I found this through a link on Christopher Scott's site, and the blog entry that interested me in particular was the one about the re-design of the company logo. He detailed his design process and gave reasons for his eventual decisions, this again was a valuable reading exercise. It made me see how much thought must go into things like this on a professional level. I really like the new design of the Hicks brand, to see more visit the site.

http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/tag/logo/

Thats just two sites of the millions of bloggers out there, i just happened to stumble across these two as i went on my everyday journey through the web. Which makes me think about what else is out there that i havent even seen, that i may never see. Anyway, it has all got me thinking about whats possible for the future. In the meantime ive got the small matter of my Identity Project to be getting on with so farewell for now.