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This is the home page for a fantastic cleaning company in the southern Gold Coast I have been marketing and it’s taking off nicely. I have designed their logo, flyers, promotions, working on uniforms, their blog & twitter, the business cards, web site, facebook profile has to wait until funding and registration is finalised. Check it out and share it with anyone who might need their help, they are lovely ladies who enjoy their work.
As you read in a previous blog I am working on an airline branding style catalog, I had posted my logo I had decided and worked out the type style and colour palette. A few items of desire had crossed my path and I stuck my logo upon them, such as cups, glasses & promotional items.
This week I have been working on the office stationery that might be required. I really don’t see it necessary to go into invoice booklets and memo pads, but the letter heads came to mind as did the business cards and envelopes. The plane has been branded and you shall see that in a later post.
This is what I have completed in my quest for office stationery: Read the rest of this entry »
The airline is going up like a house on fire! It’s a fantastic feeling creating your very own airline, I strongly recommend everyone try it – not quite God-like but definitely Mark Zuckerberg-like.
This is the final logo – 
I have been working on the colour swatches, stationery and just a few little things that every plane needs – like seats & wine glasses.
here’s just a bit: Read the rest of this entry »
You guessed it, I am still working on my letterheads and have yet another version to display. This happened quite by accident in Harry’s class when I had my business card ready to show him, just laying on the top of my letterhead and he liked the look of it. If Harry likes the look of something I have created I think it is then good enough for everyone else to see. I did have to agree with him when he pointed out the view he just saw, and once I applied it to the letterhead it immediately gave it life and lift. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s sort of sad that, in our second year we have never really explored the whole business card/ letterhead thing. Logo’s are another that we have not yet really looked at – just something we gloss over on the way to something else, we have designed a lot of them but have we really been taught to design them? Does anyone ever get ‘taught’ how to design them, or is it just something that we just develop. Is there anything worth teaching or are those type of things just an accumulation of design skills combined to create something slightly useful and good to look at.
my letterhead so far:
Ok, I have just been researching how to prepare the double-sided business card for print.
Summing up all the information I have found so far into words I can understand:
That’s it, it’s all too simple when it’s written out like that isn’t it. Now I might go back & reduce the saturation on the background of one of them then see how I go.
Still thinking about them and working on the original idea which I have firmly decided to steer away from as I have been researching printers in this area (as well as on the internet) and, for die cutting with a small amount of cards it will turn out to be extremely expensive. I was also having a bit of trouble working out the whole bleed and cutting marks situation for a curve as well, I will leave that sort of thing for when I have a bit more experience under my belt. Read the rest of this entry »
This is what I’ve come up with so far, though I like the shape it could be 2 or 3mm bigger all around and the colour looks a bit dark, it is supposed to be grey. Also the orange line under my phone numbers on the back needs adjustment.
The top is the front and the 2nd is the back:
these are more the colours I want:
and I really like what I did with the RR’s in this, the colours are very soft and friendly too, nice but I’m not sure if that’s really me.
One of our assignments given for over the Easter holiday was to design our own identity, business card, letterheads etc.. This has proven itself to be a bit trickier then I expected, all day I have been ‘soul searching’ to try to work out how I want to present myself to the rest of the world, some of the ideas I have come up with have been totally me – such as the “RR” in script. Ok, I have decided to make that a part of my identity, I have also decided to have it slim and hopefully rounded on one end (3mm off at corners?).
I feel as though if I did have some sort of image on it at all it would be a robin (of course), maybe a simple silhouette.
Ok, the colours…. I do enjoy the 40′s colour palettes but I decided I would like it either deep charcoal, dark chocolate-brown or old-paper-beige for the base colour, the other colours would be possibly green, cornflour-blue or soft purple with orange to contrast.
here are a few attractive colour palettes:
some inspirational cards I have collected: Read the rest of this entry »
