About
Sean Bucknam is…
a Designer and Maker of things working in the Seattle area. Los Angeles born and raised. PNW local by choice. He can see the bigger picture in any simple brief while concepting and creating designs that stand out from the crowd. He always aims to provide an elevated, imaginative, and fresh way of thinking through pictures rather than words. Sean has collected a wealth of knowledge while honing his design and art direction with companies like Amazon, Starbucks, Nike, REI, and Brooks Running. A problem solver at heart, he is skilled in Typography, Branding and Identity Design, and Art Direction.
What can I help you with?
Brand Identity
Your brand is more than just a logo. Our process involves a complete brand experience for you to grow your business, and a logo can only take you so far. Since branding is an investment, I do not take logo only projects on, but will offer you much more with strategy, visual identity, and more for you to see a return on your investment.
Custom Typography
Do you need some shirt graphics or maybe some titles for your movie. Custom type can range from super scripty hand-lettering to some sweet type lock-ups using your brands typefaces.
Packaging Design
Once I’ve completed your brand identity (or if you already have an existing one) I can translate that into a physical form…a package for your product! Whether you need a label for your new seasonal beer or a full packaging suite that will help you stand out on the shelf I can apply your brand to any kind of print format.
Where do we begin and what’s the process?
You want to work together? That’s great! After you reach out, I’ll send you an inquiry form. This just lets me get to know you, your business, and your project a little better. Take some time to fill it out and that’s when we schedule our discovery call. This call is about 30 minutes where we can talk about the project a bit more and see we’re a good fit to move on to the next step.
I follow up the discovery call with our project proposal, which outlines the project scope, timeline, and process. From there we send out a contract to sign and the project start date.
This is where I pull back the curtains and give you a peak at the creative process. Once the project has started, we’ll do an analysis of your competitors and how you fit in your space based off our conversations. Based on that analysis, I’ll do some visual research and create a few moodboards to capture a variety of looks and feels to help narrow down a direction to move in. I’ll send this your way and schedule a call to present the ideas.
This is where I take all the research and brainstorming we have done and start sketching out some loose ideas. I like to explore as many ideas as possible and will generally create pages and pages of sketches before selecting a few and jumping to the computer to start fleshing them out, making them ready to present to you for you to choose from. My personal stance is I don’t believe in presenting only one option, this limits us both as an designer and the client in what we perceive as a 'good’ idea vs a not so good idea, we always need something to compare to to ensure we have chosen the best from the bunch.
After presenting a few options to you, I take any feedback and use this to refine the option/options that we both agree are the best moving forward. Once we have the winner, I’ll build out all the style guidelines and prepare the files for final delivery.