I was hanging out with some friends over the weekend and we were talking about logos and graphics because several of us are starting out new projects that require or benefit from having some form of logo. My one friend, Cheyenne, is actually in school for graphic design right now and was providing insight into ways I could improve my work. During the course of the conversation she drew up this neat design for me which incorporates the fox imagery I used for my logo, and made the tail swoop around to for a ‘D’ for Devon.
My original intentions for this web site were to make everything myself. I can be really prideful in this way. I always want to do things without by myself and struggle at accepting help. It is not that I feel like I could do it better, I just want to prove to myself that I can do. I am more prideful than I am arrogant 😉 So when Cheyenne started trying to make a new logo for me my immediate thought was “No I want to do this myself”, which is kinda rude on my part. But she is much better at graphic design than I am, which is as it should be since she is going to school for it. So now I have to ask myself if my pride is worth limiting the potential of what I am trying to create with this website. Of course the answer is no! I may not be replacing my logo with her design just yet and I may take another stab at refining my own designs. But I do want to find a good way to incorporate her graphic into the site in some capacity. I am very grateful to her and it is a pretty fitting graphic for me. I should use every tool available to me. And frankly, I have been using WordPress with a theme and widgets created by other developers to build this website, so I have already violated my own self imposed rule.
On the topic of pride, I know how much of a hypocrite it makes me. I have spent the past couple weeks helping my friends create their own media related projects. I have written music, and I have participated in podcast recordings and Twitch livestreams. I have happily invested time and energy into trying to help them succeed simply because they are my friends. But whenever the tables are turned, and I am the one being offered help… well it is a something with which I struggle. I am working on it though!
I guess what I really want to say is… Thanks Cheyenne, the graphic looks great and I promise to put it to good use!