What's in a Name?
When I needed a name for my business and artistic interests, I had to look no further than outside my front door. My husband and I owned a newspaper at that time. Our office opened onto a red brick street. Occasionally, we ran ads for Main Street businesses under the "Red Brick Road" theme.
To get the logo, I shot a picture of the brick street outside our door. The original photo is this page's background. I used Eraser font for the lettering since it looks like chalk written on the bricks. I added the lettering as layers in Photoshop, then flattened the layers.
Years later, I learned that the "Wizard of Oz" movie actually had a Red Brick Road, an alternate to the Yellow Brick Road that Dorothy and her companions followed to the Emerald City of Oz. So the Red Brick Road is the "Road Less (or Not) Traveled".
My life has rarely followed any traditional path, so Red Brick Road is an appropriate name for me.
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When I make movies with my husband's help, I use "Out of My Mind Ideas" as my production company's name. For whatever reason, Red Brick Road didn't seem right for the movies, and I couldn't decide on any other name. Sometime later, I was working on a particularly intricate problem in Photoshop. I thought, "I must be out of my mind for even trying to do this!" Then the name hit me: "Out of My Mind Ideas." In the movies, the logo is accompanied by a lightning bolt and thunder.
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When I work with Marilyn, we also use "Rocking Mare Productions", from the first syllable of each of our names. 
The mare and colt are branded with the Rocking RM. In the movies, this logo's sound effects are a whinny and a slamming barn door.
 | Marilyn and Roxie under a cottonwood arch at Crosswinds Convention Center, Hesston, Kan.
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