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DIY Design: A Month of Brand Building on OMHG

Tuesday, October 1, 2013 by Jessika Hepburn

October on OMHG: DIY Design

October on OMHG: DIY Design

 

Happy October friends! Our Creative Communities theme made September fly by in a joyful blur of gathering, friendship, and connection-if you missed all the wonderful contributions be sure to check them out here. A new month means it is time for a new theme on OMHG, for October we are revisiting our popular DIY Branding theme with a month packed full of posts to help us all build a brand we love. From tweaking your Facebook page, updating your blog’s style and taking great pictures to fundamentals of graphic design we’ll be sharing our experiences, skills, and insight with you. We’ll also be packing in the tutorials, printables and practical tools along with case studies and examples of beautiful DIY brands and packaging.

Whether you’ve struggled with figuring out brand design as you go along or you’ve learned a few tricks along the way we hope you’ll join us!

Pop into the comments to let us know:  

  • Some of your biggest branding struggles-what parts of branding are confusing or frustrating you?
  • Your DIY branding inspirations-who  is rocking their brilliant branding & deserves to be featured this month?
  • Have some favourite DIY design resources? Let us in on the secret!
  • What would you like to see covered on OMHG this month-we’ll do our best to hook you up!

SEE YOUR DIY DESIGNS FEATURED ON OMHG!

We are extending our October deadline and accepting submissions until October 10th or all calendar spaces are filled! So if you have an amazing DIY branding project, tutorial or printable, can teach your mad design skills & make it easier for newbies, want to share your beautiful branding or creative packaging with us, or feature/interview your favourite DIY branding inspirations- click right here to read our submission guidelines and submit your goodness.

Cheers to brand building, knowledge sharing & DIY design!

 

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    Thursday, June 26, 2014 at 6:48 pm

    […] If you are unable to use a graphic designer, then you can create your own brand guidelines and logo, but be sure to keep things simple. This blog from Oh My! Handmade Goodness shares some resources you can use to get those branding elements down: http://ohmyhandmade.com/2013/diy-branding/october-on-omhg-diy-design/ […]

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