JMR and the new logo

So I was gladly back to work after the summer holidays were over, and just a while before schools started. My plan was to try and make some good changes to Jewelry Making with Rana. While I was mainly satisfied with the way I was running my facebook page - through which mostly people found out about me - but I just knew that there had to be an update, and I knew that the start had to be simply with a logo. 

I assigned that job to one of my students who is a talented graphic designer and a nice guy from the South. He actually lives there so he used to come all the way from Nabatieh to attend his classes, tiring but you could bet it was worth it. At some point he even took both beginners and advanced classes on the same day. So Ali and I met one afternoon to check the drafts together. He showed me 4 different beautiful logos. Glancing at them, it took me exactly two seconds to let him know of my choice. A logo that, had I been a graphic designer myself, would have done that very same logo with every little detail. That's a little exaggerated, but I you get the drift; that logo really spoke to me. A silhouette of a tribal lady's face with her jewelry and a shining star, beautifully portrayed with asymmetrical details above the newly chosen acronym for short; JMR. And to add to the fun, that girl's face looks like mine to some extent. Not a bad idea when you think that Jewelry Making with Rana was founded by myself, is managed, run and taught by myself too.  Here's the new logo, you may wonder why is it not a high resolution one, and I would simply answer that I have been too lazy to ask Ali to send me the final logo (since I had to choose the colours and get back to him about that). So this logo you see above was cropped from the facebook cover photo we uploaded together when we were still trying it (picture below).

Now that the logo is done, time to get on with the next thing on plan; re-decorating the office.