Bee Happy
Love is everywhere. When you see life though loving eyes it greets you with a smile and unfolds its arms with a warm embrace. It makes no difference if you are looking for the right name, a brand solution or an image. It’s all there for you to see, if only you will look. It’s calling out to you to be noticed and appreciated. It only needs a second to appear and give you the answer you are looking for. Opportunity shows its happy face with little or no effort when you are open to it.
The main mosaic image was from an abandoned storefront in Capitola, California, the double-delight rose is from my front yard, the pomegranate was sliced open for my food blog, and the bird of paradise leaf was fresh from Home Depot’s garden center.
See what I mean? You create a brand just like a mosaic—adding one element at a time, piece by piece, and keep it evolving with new brand attributes…a brand mosaic never ends.
When you build a brand, you keep your eyes open, and new ideas appear from everywhere.
And then you share it with the world.
I create names both client direct and though agency relations. In all cases a client brief is received and I work with a team lead or decision maker and present a master list. I never reuse a list or look back on previous work. I start fresh every time. It may not be the easiest way to do naming, but it assures a fresh approach to each project. The lists I come up with contain hundreds and hundreds of names. Sometimes I just can’t stop—waking up at all hours of the night to write something down, or running back to my desk so I don’t forget a new thought. They come to me so quickly, and the range is so diverse, it’s astonishing. Names come from just about anything I am doing. My mind hops, skips and jumps all over the place to make connections to the objectives. It constantly scans looking for the right answer, or a new expression. Even if I am not working on a project, I write down words in a notebook that I get excited about. This is probably the only downside to being a namer…you fall in love with words and your mind is never the same. You see words within words. You see how you can play with letters, and you see all of life as a word canvas.