Moved!

I’ve moved!

Well, sort of…about to finish a re-working of my website, which includes a blog page.

http://www.sthursby.com/blog/

So I’ll see you all over there!

Building a Personal Brand: Part Three

Part Three: The Website

The first part in the series was about creating and refining a logo, whereas the second part covered the creation of a portfolio and resume. The third part in this series is devoted to the creation of a website which builds on the strength of the identity and the layout theme of the portfolio to come up with a web design which complements and strengthens the entire brand ‘package’.

The finalized website can be found at http://www.sthursby.com.

The List of Lists

Designers of all kinds love three things – lists, freebies and lists of freebies. This post is intended to be  a sampling of the best and the up-to-date, a collection of some of the vast number of design lists out there. It will be continuously updated, so be sure to check in every few days for some more quality additions!

Building a Personal Brand: Part Two

Part Two: The Portfolio

The first part of this series about building and developing a personal brand was dedicated to coming up with a logo. As the main focus of this project is to develop a consistent feel across all self-promotional materials, the logical next step to tackle is the portfolio.

Designers In Motion – What To Do On A Daily Commute

Credit: Flickr Creative Commons, ohadby

If you’re like me, you’re not quite doing what you want to do and you’re working a 9-5 job. Ah, the blessed status of ‘one day soon’! If you’re like me, you also commute – an hour (or more) each way of wasted time where you can’t really do much because you’re either sleeping on a bus, driving or sleep-driving. Through several months of this, however, I’ve come across some handy ideas of things to do during this “wasted” time.

Building a Personal Brand – Part One

Part One: The Logo

Building a Personal Brand – Introduction

Logo Design Process

The first step in building a personal brand was to design a logo. I started doodling and sketching variations of my signature and initials, to see what might work. There was a fair amount of variation of the exact same thing, but my first idea was to take the stylized “S” signature and play around with that, which this result.

Building a Personal Brand – Introduction

Introduction

Hi there!

In a series of posts, I’m going to be blogging about what I do as I create a personal ‘brand’ for myself. The reason I’m doing this is simple – in today’s economic mayhem, no job is safe, and no one can be too prepared for a potential job or freelance opportunity. So, over the course of the next little while (with some work completed up to this point) I’m going to be creating and working on:

How to Start in the World of Design

As a beginning designer, it’s an uncertain work world out there. In my short time (so far) within the design world, however, a couple things have become clear to me that I think can help any novice or tentative designer.

New Beginnings & New Year’s Resolutions

First post on a new blog.

And I’ll start it with some ‘professional’ new years resolutions, as it were.

My name is Stuart Thursby, and I’m a graphic designer from Toronto, Canada. I’ve recently started to embrace the power of the internet to connect people, particularly designers, from all walks of life all over the globe, and this is my platform to connect with other bloggers from everywhere. So, to start off with a bang – new year’s resolutions! Only these particular resolutions relate to design and the ‘social web’, as it were. Here goes…