Designer 101

Biting the Bullet!

Lori Versaci hand-knit design is morphing into VERSACIKNITS!

It has been a long time coming. From early on, I wasn’t sure that I liked the black and white logo. It seemed very corporate and staid, when I wanted an open/ white look. The good news was that it was done. It was one thing that I didn’t need to worry about. So I lived with it and tried to work with it.

But this summer I enrolled in Shannon Okey’s Designer 101 class… and everything fell apart. Or, maybe everything fell into place. The very first thing she asked us to do was develop our identity. I had already read her book, and I knew this was critical to the whole process of building a business — I did go to business school. But, I really wanted to believe that I had already been there, done that. As fate would have it, the more work I did in the class, the more uncomfortable I became with the name/ logo/ layout.

Then last week I started preparing for a crafts fair that I am doing with my daughter, Amalia, in November. In addition to my patterns, I am making some of my cashmere, machine knit, shawls, scarves and baby blankets. To call these “hand-knits” is a bit ingenuous, even when they are knit and they are made by hand…. This has always bothered me. But when I went to order labels, it really bothered me. And, I just couldn’t do it. I knew deep down that I couldn’t invest any more in something that was just wrong …

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Not only does it convey the essence of what I do, it has “voice” (great for a blog) and, with the help of my friend Camille Asseraf, it has color….

Of course, the implications are…. well suffice it to say new domain name, new website, new blog…. All the reasons why I was so happy with the old logo…