During these very strange and stressful times it's really important for everyone to take some time and do something that relaxes you and that makes you happy. My thing would be getting away from the computer screen, finding a quiet space, picking up ...
Designing for Social Media
During this last very strange year a lot of businesses are working from home and have less money to spend on marketing materials. Therefore online promotion is vital to keep your business alive. I have been creating a lot of posts recently for f ...
Handmade Mud Kitchen
My husband and I have been creating a mud kitchen in our garden for our two kids. Every day when the weathers nice and were out in the garden something new gets added to it. This weekends addition was a shelve and the wood slices for the hob. Our ki ...
Self Promotion
My goal was to come up something creative and a bit different that I could give out at business meetings and to prospective clients that was more than just a business card. This is what I came up with..... a double sided A5 flyer that folds up to ...
My Daughters Artwork
My 3 year old daughter created this piece of artwork yesterday with pen, paper and stickers for eyes! Amazing! by Emma
Work in progress
This is a double page spread for a school menu that I'm currently working on. The theme is vintage farm and this is what I've created so far! The text will go in the circles, the flag and on the large green area.
millies
There is a beautiful shop in Hailsham called Millies. It sells wonderful clothes, jewellery, gifts, bits for the home and lots more. The owner has an amazing eye for detail and for styling her shop, and I am the lucky designer that gets to work with ...
Logo Design
This logo is for an HR company. The overall look of the logo was to be modern, bright and approachable. For this I used quite a modern typeface, a complimentary colour palette and created an image which represented togetherness and achievement. Achi ...
Inspired by Scotland
It is now time to redesign the school menu for spring/summer 2015 and as it's the year of food and drink in Scotland, we went for a very Scottish theme. I decided to create a Scottish table setting with a tartan table cloth, a menu, knife and fo ...
Logo Design
I love colour and thinking about how colour effects us whether it be in our business branding and media, our homes or the clothes we wear. So when a colour therapist got in contact and asked me to design her logo I was quite excited!! I was given my ...
Inspired by Comic Books
This is a recent job I had great fun creating! Twice a year I design this school menu, each time being a different theme and for the autumn/winter 2014/15 we went for a comic book/action hero theme using their Taycat mascot. I had to redraw their mas ...
C – Gloomy text using cloud filter
This is a relatively simple tutorial, using only a few effects and applying them differently. But the instructions are not as detailed as some other tutorials which meant towards the end I just used trial and error until I got the result I required. ...
Self Promotion
It's time for me to design new business cards for my company and I have taken inspiration from an exhibition I put together at art college after a trip to Venice. As well as sitting around the streets of Venice sketching the amazing scenery and archi ...
B – 3D text on fire
This is an advanced photoshop tutorial, creating a more involved text effect. But follow each step carefully, take your time and you should be able to create this burnt text effect that looks so realistic and doesn't involve using any 3D software! Th ...
A – Smoking Text
This is my first of 26 posts that shows what you can create using online photoshop tutorials. This is a very simple tutorial to follow and the link to 'Qbrushes' provides you with great smoke effect brushes. The whole effects come to life when you a ...