For some time I have been volunteering for Wise Thoughts which creates dynamic local, national and international arts initiatives in addition is delivering services that help address social justice issues for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex (LGBTQI+) and Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities.
I didn’t want to work for free for some corporation while still learning so this is a cause with meaning.
For this post I posting a bi-fold brochure for this charity and placards which will be taken to the pride itself.
I think in real life it looks lot better.
With the placards is important to keep the message clear and easy to read.
In this new post I have created a brand identity for new cosmetics.
I have designed a logo, created a brand name in addition to creation of advertisement for this new lotion.
I have used Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dimensions.
I have established the logo as shown on the first image. With the type and the colours established I could proceed to creating and developing colours more including creating more logos as I wanted to create three different types of lotions.
With colours for each fragrance set I could proceed to developing a design for each bottle.
With this done I could export the individual assets and put them on real packaging.
My final step was to create for an advertisement for a magazine.
The idea was to create something very clean. I felt this product doesn’t need anything too bold as the target audience is between older generation wanting a good quality product instead of something flashy and shiny.
The last advert is more for a magazines or something like that.
For this new post I have designed a Mead Drink Advert Poster. I was aiming at something for a magazine and etc.
The Ancient Greeks drank mead. Vikings were known to have indulged. In old Celtic and Germanic cultures, it was a hero’s drink, something sweet to gulp down gallantly after slaying foes. And there was Friar Tuck, famously.
But for 600 years or so it was cast aside in favour of beer, wine, and all other alcoholic beverages besides. In the last century, it had slipped away almost entirely, constrained to quiet monasteries and odd pocketed communities on rugged isles.
But mead is very much back on the bar. In the last few years it has gone mainstream and sales are up. English Heritage says it sells a bottle every ten minutes. Not bad for a simple ancient alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water.
Today, some suggest cult TV shows such as Game of Thrones spurred the resurgence. Out of flagons the heady beverage is swilled. In Ridley Scott’s 2010 Robin Hood adaptation, Friar Tuck flogs his home brew to the merry men.
I don’t aim that high as Game of Thrones, but wanted to create something quite modern and contemporary.
The style of the advert is slightly different than the one I have create earlier. This time around I was aiming at something bit more somber.
The wooden figure at the background is quite traditional in some countries. The village folk did try to make their bee house more interesting by a wood cuts such as this one. I liked it very much and thought using it would make the can look more interesting.
In addition I am adding t-shirts featuring the image as used on the can.
For my new post I have prepared a new can design for drink from mead. I wanted something different something unusual.
In my new can I wanted to use colours related to honey and possibly one or two contrasting colours, to help packaging to stand out easier.
While designing it is always helpful to do sketching prior the actual work on the computer. Below you can see some of the ketches I did to help me clarify my idea.
Mead, or “honey wine,” is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey.
It’s one of the oldest alcoholic beverages ever made, as it was consumed as far back as 4,000 years. Interestingly, mead was common across ancient cultures around the world including those in Asia, Europe and Africa.
Though similar to beer, wine or cider, mead occupies a beverage category on its own since its primary fermentable sugar is honey.
All you need to make basic mead is honey, water and a yeast or bacterial culture. However, ingredients such as fruits, herbs, spices, grains, roots and flowers are often included as well.
Mead’s alcohol content varies but is typically around 5–20%. Its flavour profile ranges from very sweet to very dry, and it’s available in both sparkling and still versions.
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First I started with basic designs and basic shapes.
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I wanted to use different motives for my background. Images above are showing backgrounds with flowers.
I have muted the photographs on a purpose to help the typography and labels to stand out better.
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The pictures are showing the options with honeycomb in the background.
I was asked by the charity I occasionally do some graphic design for to create a posters for Mindfulness and Knitting sessions.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an approach to psychotherapy that was originally created as a relapse-prevention treatment for depression. Research indicates that it may be particularly effective for individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD).
Benefits of knitting for your brain
Knitting exercises both hemispheres of the brain.
Reduces stress.
Knitting improves mood.
It improves your motor skills.
Knitting raises self esteem.
I do practice mindfulness myself, but not knitting. I have to be honest I can’t knit. Maybe one day I will try.
The designs below are the ones I came up with.
I have tried different fonts and played with different backgrounds, but the image above is my favourite.
The yellow colours is somehow very welcoming.
In case of the mindfulness poster I struggled a little as it is very hard to define. I practice it every morning, but I still find it hard what it is and how I would explain to someone what I am doing every morning.
This example is quite straight forward, but I would’t say it exactly explains what is one doing.
I am doing this work for residents of protected housing and to sit like the person on the image takes a lot of practice and some might have a physical difficulties and etc. The next example is much more forgiving.
I wanted these posters to be very simple and very straight forward.
This example above is probably my most favourite. While creating this I was thinking that when one closes eyes everything kind of loses edges like this flower here.
For this project I have decided to do something bit different. I have designed a company mugs.
Earlier I have created an Architecture Studio Tri-fold brochure which you can see if you click HERE .
To complete the project I was thinking about designing company branded mugs. It is something which they can give to they customers as Christmas present or give other businesses for the same reason.
With this design I wanted to keep it very simple and minimalistic as much as possible, which is not always my style.
I have played with the company logo and added some more images from the brochure thinking that could be buildings this company had built in the past.
I wanted to keep the colour scheme very basic. I have used just three colour withs orange/pink, white, black and different tints of the black.
The mugs itself is quite old fashioned and that is on purpose. I wanted something different, something which can be easily remembered.
The row above is featuring mugs only with the logo and brand name. I have used “Define Pattern” option in Adobe Photoshop while creating these.
The row below is featuring something more elaborated.
For this post I have decided to design a can for sparkling fruit drink. What I had in mind was something with a flair of joke.
My idea and big mission to remove the boredom and stigma that surrounds soft drinks.
A brand identity for the sparkling fruit drink featuring used colours and illustrations. Colours are bright and warm.
I am continuing with the look of the vintages snack I have designed earlier on and which you can see if you click HERE .
I wanted to use images of the fruit the drink has got a flavour off.
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I had to bee testing the ideas as every element of the can plays a significant role in overall look of the packaging.
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ere you can see my first attempt to do so. Prior to this work I have done some research into sparkling fruit drinks. I had in mind to use font which would complement the idea of tasty drink, but the used font here and the colour too is not working at all.
The drink name is too big and the red colour is disappearing in the background.
I now new I have to be using different font than I have used the vignette should be small too.
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In this example I have used different type of vignette, but I don’t think it work well either.
Customer now know that he/she is getting sparkling drink and knows more about the weight.
I like the colour and the use of the gradient here, but the vignette is not really working here very well.
With this new example I have tried to play more with shape of the label as I wasn’t satisfied with look, because it seemed empty.
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In my opinion also not harmonised together very well.
In case of the example on the left I added shape at the top of the can to help me highlight the Brand name as that is important and also the flavour of the drink, plus small information for the consumer that the drink is organic. In the previous exaples the big apple at the background was turned the wrong way around so in this case I have ammended the mistake and turning it the right way around. My consumer knows now and can distinguish the brand name with clean shape at the top.
In the last few cases I have played more with background image and overall look of the illustration.
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I feel the image itself is interesting and important too as the shopper can see clearly that they are buying something with apple flavour.
I have decide to change few elements which is adding shadow to the apples and adding more of those I wanted to simplify it for the consumer. Also the flavour label is now white as I don’t like the black, it seems too hard to me.
The reason for playing with the background image is that I had to delete some parts to help the logo to stand out more.
The last example of my collection is a Strawberry flavour drink.
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Which in my opinion is the best. I feel this is better executed.
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I was trying to follow similiar pattern, but some of the procedures are different.
In the first case I wasn’t using gradient to add more colour.
In the ase on the right I have used gradient and the strawberries are partly hidden by it.
I prefer the first case, because it would be stand out on the supemarket shelf better.
