I set the camera up on this Jam tonight because my friend at Lidwish Soulutions has been taking good care of me while I try out his new sticks, so I will offer him any video clips he might like to use to help promote the product. They are great sticks.
Anyway, I've avoided making any commitment to playing music regularly for over ten years, but these guys play just the type of jams I enjoy so I'm starting to play more often & was happy with this low rent video off a still camera stuck on a conga drum in the corner, with the second warm-up jam of the night, an original that I only just heard tonight...
This job was a while ago, but I wrote about it at the time, because I thought it was an interesting example of the way things work sometimes, regarding customers asking for one thing, & my efforts to discover if something else entirely would better serve them.
The call came in Thursday afternoon...
"Do you make those magnet signs?"
..yeah, I do those
"do you sell the blank material?"
...well, sometimes, but not as a rule.. what do you need them for?
"well I'm having my car transported across the country & I thought I should put signs on it to advertise my internet company before I ship...
I bought some "quiet play" drumsticks from a guy I met a few blocks who developed & patented this product. I hadn't played drums since a Christmas party because of fears of bothering the neighbors. I set up & shot a quick video to offer my new friend to help him promote his great new product. He already has clips of some exceptionally talented guys playing these sticks on his website, but he had asked, so I got out the camera & shot my first little goof off sessions of the year!
I am going to document the steps of this design because I feel that the process was somewhat typical, and may be of interest to some of my readers, or helpful for me to share with other potential logo design clients.
This client came in while on a week long visit from Arizona to research the conditions for his new Kayak tour company he was planning. He commissioned me to design his logo, & hoped to have several vehicles for me to do within the following month or so. He had a hat he liked with a petroglyph of a figure & lettering circling around it. He liked the hat design, but he didn't...