Business Identity

I have been given a name of a person for whom i am creating a set of business stationery for, a business card, Letterhead and a Compliment slip. The person i have been given is late 50's rock and roll icon Buddy Holly. I have been researching Buddy so i can understand him then i can reflect him clearly through the stationery. 

The main things that i found out about Buddy, he was in a band called the Crickets. His iconic look and music was one of the pioneering influences for the rock and roll movement. 'Buddy' was a nickname given by his family. The 'Strat' was the guitar he always played. I found a quote about buddy when he was alive by a critic Bruce Elder 'The single most influenced creative force in early rock and roll', I liked this quote it sums up the impact that he had on rock and roll, even though his short lived success from 1957 to 1959 when he died in a plain crash at the age of 22. Buddy Holly influenced other musicians to come like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, But the main influence for Buddy was seeing Elvis Presley sing in 1955 at Lubbock which changed Buddys view on his music alot, he wanted to incorporate lead guitar, strong rhythm and slap bass into his music.

What has mostly helped me think up a visual idea from my research is his iconic look, pin-stripe suit, geek glasses and his guitar. I created three prototypes of business cards i could make. I really liked how they looked, a jacket that opened to reveal the information, his guitar with the information written on then you pull up the fret board which reveals his name and a simple design o just his glasses that are glossy with the information written on the lenses. I showed these examples in my group tutorial today, they where received quite well but it turned out that i am currently doing things too obvious, i need to think outside the box. After much discussion we got to the conclusion that i have not researched deep enough into Buddy Hollys life. So i started to research him more, looking into information from his childhood, marriage, the start of his career which i found quite hard to narrow down and make sense of how i could work with it and as i was told today 'think blue sky thoughts' then was told to calm them down, still not completely sure on how obvious or not with this project. There was one bit of information that took my interest, when he was in his teens he recorded his first song on a wire recorder which he borrowed of his friend who worked in a music shop. I didn't know what a wire recorder looked like so i researched it and i liked what i saw. I am still think how i could maybe incorporate this into a business card, could use wire?