My Personal Brand

[TheOneAndOnlyMau]

Hey everybody! Long time no post. Ive been working on a new personal brand for a while and id like to share it with the board and get some feedback.

If you aren't aware, Im a landscape architecture student at Penn State and I will be graduating at the end of the spring semester so Im starting to put my final portfolio package together. This will be printed and sent to potential employers and/or included with grad school applications.

I was going for refined simplicity, technical/artistic balance, and a black/white theme with hi-res full color images to accompany text, projects, etc. I feel like this theme is carried through pretty well and really speaks to who i am as a designer and communicates my personal style.

The brand is also featured on my portfolio website which can be found here.

My print portfolio can be found here.

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Let me know what you think! Any comments and/or criticisms would be appreciated. Thanks!

[TheFallenHaveRisen]

This is all I could think of when I saw the title of the thread

[TheOneAndOnlyMau]

This is all I could think of when I saw the title of the thread

Helpful. Why dont you "look with your special eyes" and tell me what you think? My how this board has fallen

[BrandMooreArt]

i think it all actually looks very good. theres nothing i could tell you to add/drop that would improve it. the presentation is also well done

[Bayne]

It's nice. It's a somewhat unoriginal use of a letter form in a wire frame aesthetic, but it's executed very elegantly. I think it does a good job but it doesn't blow me away or make me look more than once.

[drdougfresh]

Very clean, Chris. I dig it.

i think it's important to mention that the field you're going into (if I'm not mistaken, as I know a few industrial design people as well) isn't going to have a whole lot of competition in terms of solid presentation like this when you graduate. You'd be amazed at how many interviews a professional portfolio/resume will get you out of school. Even in Marketing, I feel like my colorful and very visual resume got me quite a few calls just because it was different. Definitely a good idea to have this all set up before walking across the stage.

[TheOneAndOnlyMau]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Anybody have any suggestions on how i could go about making this pop a little more? Its the only thing about it im not entirely happy with. Also, if you didnt check out the links to my portfolio please do. I think it gives a better representation of the entire brand at work

[derschwigg]

This is all I could think of when I saw the title of the thread

Helpful. Why dont you "look with your special eyes" and tell me what you think? My how this board has fallen

Holy cow. It's a joke. Take it easy.

In any case, there's no question you've executed it well. Your typography blocking is solid and well designed. My problem is: the black and white forest with logo overlay look is such a trend anymore that it doesn't actually set you apart from anything and I can't legitimately see your logo through the trees. A splash of a vibrant color, in general, would do you wonders.

I'm also confused as to why your name is in a different font than anywhere else. You should change it to the Bebas Neue font, in my opinion.