Round-up of inspiration…

This week’s inspiration from around the internet…

1. Fashion Men by Fernando Vicente
Beautiful fashion illustrations of beautiful men… 🙂

2. Animals by Si Scott
I do love Si Scott’s work, and these are stunning as usual – hand drawn animal series.

3. Card Game App project
Jonatan Cantero’s artwork for a cancelled project – these were going to be used for a card game app. Amazing illustrations.

4. Super Looper
Don’t click on this link unless you have time to play! Lovely music maker – beautiful graphics – amazing!

5. Onward Internet
Nice animation about some facts about the internet from Buck.

6. Alienation by Anelia Loubster
Great photography project looking at people’s eyes and foreheads upside down – making them look like alien faces. Stunning photography.

7. VHS skateboards
Awesome old school VHS designs on skateboard decks by 5boro.

TTFN,
Laura

Moon & Stars Branding Part 2

This is part 2 of a 2 part post about a full branding and logo design project.

Lucy decided on Idea 3 – and we set toy work on tweaking and finalising the design of the logo… I designed the final logos and created them in different colours of the brand:

Black on White

White on Navy

White on Emerald

White on Purple

We then worked on the business card ideas, coming up with some different ideas and layouts based on the design:

Business Card Idea 1

Business Card Idea 2

Business Card Idea 3

Business Card Idea 4

Business Card Idea 5

Business Card Idea 6

Business Card Idea 7

Business Card Idea 8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We finally went for a very classic idea for the business card, in 3 different colours, and followed this idea onto the vouchers…

Emerald Business Card

Purple Business Card

Navy Business Card

Business Card back

Emerald Voucher – £50

Navy Voucher – £25

Purple Voucher – £10

Voucher back

 

TTFN,
Laura

Moon & Stars Branding

This is part 1 of a 2 part post about a full branding and logo design project.

Not long ago I was approached by Lucy to help her come up with a logo and branding for her new Beauty Salon in London. She sent me a link to a fantastic Pinterest board with her ideas in inspiration on and I set to work. She wanted something using jewel/peacock colours, that was classic and elegant and using the moon and star shapes somewhere in the design…

Calligraphy doodles

Sketches and Ideas

I mocked up three different ideas to present to Lucy:

Idea 1

This one is based loosely on art deco and art nouveau style, but kept very minimal, and slightly more modern, and uses the crescent moon idea for the o’s.

Idea 2

This idea uses Futura, a gemoetric sans serif typeface in uppercase. I have substituted the O’s and the A of moon and stars to actual moon shapes and star shapes. This is a simpler more typographical solution.

Idea 3

The final idea uses a more classic and formal approach, using a stylised star/diamond shape as a recurring pattern and motif, and a classic serif typeface – Trajan. The shape can be used at different sizes and in different ways, to maintain the brand consistency and would use the rich peacock colours.

Part 2 coming soon…

TTFN,
Laura

Round-up of inspiration…

This week’s inspiration from around the internet…

1. Lighthouse of the Hudson River
I love lighthouses and this is a beautiful piece of information design, so simple, so minimal – from Norman Ibarra.

2. andandandltd
More ands than you can shake a stick at…

3. Burton Parkitect
Lovely hand drawn and hand painted branding work for Burton Parkitect by BMD.

4. Spellbinding mathematical GIFs
Dave Whyte’s amazing GIFs…

5. Lovely Cafe and Library logo…
Designed by Entre Líneas for La Chamarilera. Very witty, clever and well executed.

6. Denim Hangtags
Lovely letterpresses hangtags for jeans company Grady Mac designed by Hook.

7. Ikea advert
Fantastic parody of Apple iPad adverts from Ikea! Very funny!

TTFN,
Laura

Essential Oils Direct… Loyalty Cards

Just a quick one to show some loyalty cards I designed recently. Essential Oils Direct are a company I have worked with for a few years now and they wanted a Loyalty Card designed for their customers who pick up their orders from the Warehouse…

Essential Oils Direct Loyalty Card

Essential Oils Direct Loyalty Card – back with space for stickers

Once you’ve filled the card, you get a mini card with a coupon code to give you a discount…

Minicard discount code

Minicard discount code

And finally, the stickers we ordered for each collection…

Sticker designs…

And here they are in all their glory…

EOD Loyalty and Discount Cards

EOD Loyalty Card with sticker

Moocards printed these for us, and they were brilliant, great service!

TTFN,
Laura

Dartington Infographic

I was recently approached to design an info graphic for a piece about the economics of Dartington, a local organisation who work in partnership to build creative and resilient communities which can be a force for positive social change. They wanted an infographic to explain how they work, and had some ideas about what they wanted it to look like, and together we put together this…

Dartington Infographic

It was good fun to have a blank canvas and just a little bit of branding as a restraint for this, and I am really pleased with the final results!

TTFN,
Laura

Round-up of inspiration…

This week’s inspiration from around the internet…

1. Zombie Safe Zone Maps
Lovely prints helping you find the “safe zone” in your area if the zombie apocalypse happens…

2. Game of Thrones Weather App
As part of a promo in Poland for season 4 of Game of thrones, this weather app was designed. I love it.

3. Certificate of Awesomeness
Jessica Hische sells these brilliant certificates to cheer you up…

4. Pavlov’s Visuals
Beautiful illustrations, so simple but effective, I love the girl on the skateboard!

5. Montok Illustrations
Illustrations for the Montok newspaper to illustrate Montok by Ooli Mos.

6. Under the Sign of Saturnism
Beautiful letterpress design by Gabriele Fumero and letterpressed by Archivio Typografico.

7. Inkymole Christmas Cards
Beautiful kaleidoscope designs and many printing techniques… just lovely, by Inkymole.

TTFN,

Laura

Devon Young Carers

Devon Carers, the organisation I work with regularly have been working on a new campaign to encourage carers to have a Health and Wellbeing Check. It’s been ongoing with the Carers for a while, but the Young Carers wanted to roll out a slightly different version with their own branding…

Devon Young Carers Health & Wellbeing Check Front Cover

Devon Young Carers Health & Wellbeing Check Booklet

Devon Young Carers Health & Wellbeing Check Booklet

Devon Young Carers Health & Wellbeing Check Booklet

Devon Young Carers Health & Wellbeing Check Back Cover

I changed the typefaces and colours to match the DYC branding, and also made the layout a little better for younger people to read and use. The imagery on the front and back was also changed to reflect the audience a little better, and to make the whole thing a bit more positive and friendly for the younger audience.

TTFN,
Laura

Round-up of inspiration…

This week’s inspiration from around the internet…

1. Glennz Tees
These are always so funny, witty and clever… and these new designs are just brilliant!

2. Wallington Typeface
A new beautiful typeface, I am going to be buying this very soon, not sure what I am going to do with it yet… designed by Zeune Ink Foundry.

3. Unruly Gin & Vodka Packaging
Hired Guns Creative unveil some truly epic bottle designs.

4. Gorgeous illustrations from Baran Sarigul
I love the style of these, almost caricature…

5. “Fatherly” website
Fantastic web design for a parenting web platform, by Apartment One, Victoria Herrera and Spencer Paul Bagley – really great design.

6. More illustrations…
Some amazing etchings and paintings from Takashi Yamamoto.

7. Chicks and Type
An intimate love story by Simone Massoni between the two things she is passionate about… illustration and typography… just lovely.

Playing catch up due to a busy few weeks of sailing!

TTFN,
Laura

Round-up of inspiration…

This week’s inspiration from around the internet…

1. Paper Cities
Amazing cities built of paper – by Hattie Newman. These are incredible – so well put together, I love them!

2. The Origins of Common UI Symbols
A really interesting look at different UI symbols – I didn’t know the origins of most of these. The website is also awesome 🙂

3. Kurzgesagt Videos
Cool little videos explaining stuff – very nicely done!

4. The Known-World Transit Map
A transit map of Westeros. Completely useless, but I love it and want it. Nice piece of work!

5. The Dark Forest
Amazingly beautiful forest photography by Kilian Schönberger.

6. Gawatt Emotions
Limited edition coffee cups for Gawatt Coffee shop – where you can change your expression to suit your mood!

7. Ambigram
I love a good ambigram and this one is awesome. Head over Heels by Ana Gomez Bernaus.

TTFN,
Laura