Planet Ruby Starrs

I've been working on some branding ideas this week... I went through a lot of stuff about flowers and ravens... using my drawings for business card design and letterheads - trying to design a logo - none of which I particularly liked.... there was a moment - given the current circumstances when I thought what the heck - anything will suffice at this point - then after an hour in the garden a a calming cuppa I resumed playing about and decided quite rationally this isolation/ quarantine will not go on for ever where as good branding and a nice logo might!!! I discarded my drafts using drawings, working on the premise that they can date very quickly.  I looked at what I had used for 'branding' when I was at Newcastle College and it did look dated compared to what I am doing now so with that in mind I took a different tack and thought about other angles my work had.  After more reflection I decided I liked the moon!  More faffing and I have some working ideas. ...

Its been a quiet few days while I try to catch up with college work and decide how best to "brand" Ruby Starrs...  I'm doing a lot of research into how other people brand themselves, and there are some funky ideas out there but I want something different, classy but fun. We've been asked to write a CV and I have a feeling that Ruby Starrs CV will be very different from her alter ego who worked in the addictions field for 30 years, I dug my old CV out to see what I could use as transferable skills but in the end apart from a few obvious bits I decided to condense 3 decades worth of professionalism into Work Experience "in a past life I worked in the addiction field and my duties included everything it takes to manage charitable services on a ridiculous budget in an effective and creative manner......"  and that sums up my previous career... So Ruby Starrs - Advocate of Slam it in Style emerges as an entity to be reckoned with... jobs include Artist in ...