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nikkiareese · 2 months

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And last but not least, we have the branding sheet for Nothing Special! With the customizations for overlays and the wide range of different usages and styles across the channel's assets, this only breaks down the barest minimum of fonts, colors, and logos.

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nikkiareese · 2 months

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Besides the overlays and logo design, I also designed templates to be used with various social media purposes.

Twitch has integrated panel options that are displayed on a channel's page - I started out making them entirely images, laid out and designed as pictured, but ended up only using the "sign" titles for accessibility and legibility reasons.

The calendar is sized to a template I made that accounts for various ideal social media post site images, including BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, and Ko-Fi. As there are multiple people who will be streaming on the page at various intervals, I made an "Appearing This Week" space on the calendar to ensure avatars and names have place to be listed without crowding what's planned on the listed days.

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nikkiareese · 2 months

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New work? New work! Kind of.

January 2024 felt like a year in and of itself. Many creatives were hit with the post-holidays slow season like a speeding bus. A few small projects were scattered around, but nothing was sustainable of itself. So, we addressed the problem ourselves, myself and some friends teaming up with one goal: take the scraps of a pile of projects and assemble something more cohesive.

We created "Nothing Special", a variety channel named for the common response to a number of questions: what do you want to watch? What kind of logo are you looking for? What do you want to eat? - it's a ubiquitous, all-encompassing title for an amalgamation of ideas that makes up the Nothing Special channel.

I took up management of the channel, handling everything from social media to behind-the-scenes production, and of course, visuals. The logo is based on my own, not only out of considering this an extension of my own productions, but also because, initially, I considered absorbing my own professional existence into a "branch" of Nothing Special. The logo was then expanded into other planned branches, including but not limited to gaming content. craft-alongs and item sales, and even tarot and other witchy things.

Figuring out how stream overlays worked and integrated with broadcasting software was a massive hurdle, and learning how to break down a designed layout into layers appropriate for streaming software was an endeavor all of itself. While many of the vector designs were stock, I applied graphic styles to match the opalescent background of the logo. The core colorways for each "branch" are also part of the opalescent background, and I colored backgrounds for each individually as well as a multicolored version to represent the channel as a whole.

Do you feel like watching something, but not sure what? Nothing special, perhaps? Check out our website here or follow us on Twitch - lots of content coming soon!

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