my new mission of today is to produce an invite for a 2 year olds birthday party for a good friend of mine. i have found this a really enjoyable challenge as it is not really something i have done before.
henry is obsessed with jcb diggers so i started with doing some simple line drawings of good ol' jcb diggers...















one of the requests was to keep colour blocking to a minimum due to printing costs. i wanted to keep my style in the invites whilst having henry's personality with fun happy font.
i kept to primary colours but made focus on the classic jcb yellow and included a fun photo of henry.
i went for graph paper in the background to break up the plain background and give a bit more of a 'boyish' theme.

i did two designs with the same imagery which i think worked really well, (obviously ive blocked out the party details as we don't want a rave turning up at the party!)

my business card is featured on Print and Pattern, how exciting! its the bird one on the bottom left of the picture, there is also quite a few of the good old staffs uni crew as well!
http://printpattern.blogspot.com/2011/07/exhibition-new-designers.html

new designers

Well I have just got back from New Designers in London and it has been an absolutely fantastic week! My cards featuring my dog illustrations and hidden pop-ups had quite a bit of interest, which I was so pleased about. At first I only kept them in my portfolio but liv persuaded me to put them out in my show so I was lucky she did!

Staffs uni in general got a great deal of interest as a whole so fingers crossed we all go on to long and happy careers!

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