Self Branding Ideas and Research

 I want to produce something that is out of the ordinary of your typical business card. I would like to have something that removes the awkwardness of handing over a small piece of card with my information on as it is what is expected. However as a graphic design student I want to be able to give someone something more interesting whether in the form of a gift or something that is more personal to me, or in some cases them. Working around these different areas I have wrote down a number of different ideas to explore and work with over this self branding project.

As I have come up with a number of ideas I want to gather more focused research on the individual concepts to see which ideas are producible as well as which will be the most successful. 

Sticker: 
This sticker idea came from Penny's design company 'The Girls'. They had a number of different stickers designed that were personal to them and displayed their quirkiness and added the personal touch that is highly appreciated. This would overcome having the physically hand something to a person, however if in conversation an individual did ask for my contact details, I can't hand over a sticker. Therefore this idea could be thought of in conjunction with the wider idea of self branding to produce a package that I could send out to design studious and companies I hope to work for.


Sheep:
Something unique about me is that I live on a sheep farm. I have grown up in the same place my whole life therefore this is something that is very personal to me. There is a lot in the media at current working round the creativity of sheep.  Something that I could work round with this is a video that shows me being creative with the sheep and not following the crowd. This could be with spraying the sheep with different designs or names of people/companies that inspire me, places i've been and key words about me. Something more physical that could come from this is having a sheep business card style. This idea came from the robot design (below). As well as this being something that is personal to me, it is also something that relates to who I want to work for in the future (Country Living  therefore working on the concept of having something that is personal and unique to me, as well as who I am sending or giving the 'sheep' to.