So I am trying to get things up into the next phase of trying to resurrect my DJ career. I’ve tweaked out the website to something I am liking at the moment (http://www.pariscreative.com), I am starting to design up some new business cards, I am starting to network to see what I can do.
However my wife told me last night when I had her critique my business card she noted that she thought my name was too long (too many syllables) and my logo seemed outdated.
I created the logo about 6 years ago as a 2nd gen logo for my design company. Yep that name was Paris Creative. And my thought that I was going for the name at the time circa 2001 is that I could transpose the company name to any creative endeavor I when through. When I decided that I web design was no longer profitable, I retired that, some time passed, and then I really started to get the itch to get back into DJing (which really never went away).
So that takes me to this point. Is my name too “non-DJ”? Is my logo outdated?
I like the Logo, but being from Paris myself, “ParisCreative” doesn’t sound to me as a Dj name immediatly. It sounds more like an art school stuff… you know what I mean. Maybe you need something more personnal, or at least more unique.
This, the name sounds like a design studio or something. Somehow using the word creative sounds more visual to me. Logo isn’t outdated but looks a bit too sober IMHO.
Probably no one, but it’s all about branding. Since I had that logo at the time it seemed to work.
Interesting thought. I used to be T-Love (middle name is Theodore). But frankly now that just seems corny.
As for the logo being ‘sober’ that is an interesting thought. When I was in web and print design my slant was very corporate, clean, flat. I might need to take a leap of faith if I was to go crazy with it.
Your Web site looks nice but the initial view says nothing about what you are, DJ, remixer, producer and so on… Maybe add a top banner stating this or something similar.
I really like the name, actually. Maybe even just because it doesn’t sound like a typical DJ name.. Plus the possibility to include various creative aktivities (DJing, producing, maybe design) sounds like an interesting idea to me.
Actually I went by Theo from 1991-1999 as my given name. My dad and I sounded so similar that I got sick of people confusing us on the phone, and also I disliked just being called Lou. When I met my wife she hated Theo, so I went back as Lou.
I might do a redesign of the site. While this version was focused really just on my mixtapes, I think I might change it up to go in depth.
Thanks, that is why I had chosen to go with it in the first place. Something unique, no.
And thanks on the homepage. I wish I could take credit but it’s just a word press template I did some slight mods on. It’s much cheaper and less time consuming than starting from scratch. But as I noted above I might need to rethink it so I can do more showcasing than just my mixtapes.
Name is fine me thinks. If you have a history of using it then it’s familiar to you, too and less thing to worry about concerning getting another name.
Well I had a history of using it for other creative endeavors. For DJing it’s ~1 year but it’s not a big brand name (funny to even say such a thing.)
One random concept I had was to change up to DJ LT or just LT. My non-DJ name that is all over the internet is LTParis. I quick logo idea I had was this:
PC, Also keep in mind that most “logo’s” that are DJ’s is their name in a certain font or catchy design when put on flyers. It’s note really a logo or badge like what you have. If you pull up the flyer for Ultra you will see about 50 or so, maybe more, DJ names written in a manner that is their brand. I would lean that way when making a logo.
