The brand is T.O.T.O. or THINK OUTSIDE THE OCTOPUS which has started from a small place of ideas and late-night friendship banter. This brand is my pride and joy and grows with every advertisement and creation I design, it starts to develop a form and identity of its own, a voice that carries and I'm excited to see where it goes.

Grateful for the space, on Fourthwall I am able to utilize a webspace and showcase the different evolutionary stages. 

Since the earlier days of Etsy, when I was selling a supply of printed shirts of mine, they were generating an audience for me, this was before AI took over algorithms and I was able to sell 2 shirts a week. I made a much better sales profit using the Etsy platform but with the current Fourthwall platform I need to generate my own audience for made to order products.

I don't stream online or scream from the rooftops about myself so I guess it has been a bumpy journey and no one really wants to go out of their way to find me here, so if you're reading this I thank you!
Fans of my work or not, I'm so proud of myself with the progresses I have made and am really impressed with the quality of material that Fourthwall provides, I only want the best for the things I wish for people to get from my work. 

I really wish I could prove to people my work is good enough some day or the product is of excellent quality. I also know that these days, anyone can make a shirt and anyone can think they can do what I do, but I'm not going to put any less value on myself and what I do, I will continue through thick and thin!

Not everyone will stick to a graphic design career path, I need to constantly prove to the industry and to clients I'm good enough for them, every day it wears me down, I don't want to be what someone else expects me to be. I'm going to improve not to impress others but to make my own progress, my own way.

I think next process may be to purchase more sample products and create shorts video adverts.

Stay tuned!

Jack of THINKOUTSIDETHEOCTOPUS.