identity crisis

thank you to everyone who helped me through my identity crisis (and put up with me in the meantime!) this is the new business card. it is a relief to be over this process, for now anyway. when the time comes to define myself, it is always very difficult to do. on a daily basis i work and play in my own way, according to a core set of values, beliefs, and aesthetic principles. when i was in college, my instructor said to me on many occasions that things always worked out the best for me when i followed my heart, regardless of what my peers (and sometimes "the rules") said. i try to keep that in mind, and work accordingly. so, when designing for myself, i am emotionally invested in every thumbnail, every composition, every success, and every failure. it is difficult to be objective when you are designing for yourself as well. i suspect that everyone sees things differently- so a persons own representation of themselves is not even going to be interpreted by their audience in the same way. i had come up with around 40 designs i just LOVED!, but were they right for me? the hardest part of all of this was finally having to let go of my favorite designs because they weren't. hopefully a client down the road can benefit from those great ideas. and next time, i will probably let someone else have the job of suffering through my identity crisis.