Business Cards

Posted by Lauren Chandler

I started designing business cards for my company, using my colour scheme, logo and supporting graphics I experimented with earlier in the project. I showed my initial business card design in the workshop group review and their was a couple reviews and mistakes that I needed to look over, the mistake was that I stretched the company font to make it look slated which I amended and then I changed the font of the text for the information at the back of the card. The other critic was to use a different font, so I used one more basic, however I’m not sure if I liked this as it didn’t fit with the rest of the theme, so I will keep the calligraphy font for the basic information:

Finalised Logo

Posted by Lauren Chandler

I started to really like my idea of the the circular waves, so I thought I would develop this idea more and further. I included my other design of the ship but there was too much going on and I felt I needed to make is as simple as I could to make it look professional and for it too look at a high quality at a small scale and large scale and when I change it to greyscale.

For my final logo I have decided to go for the middle design, it follows my colour scheme really well. I am going to experiment this further in different scales and in black and white.

Website Layouts

Posted by Lauren Chandler

For my company website layout, I wanted to keep mine a simple grid layout to show text box’s and images in a clear manner. For inspiration I looked at website layouts on Pinterest to see what worked well and keeping it modern in terms of style and trends.

I realised that most of these designs stuck to a grid layout and used a lot of images. I took these designs in mind and started designing my own website. I used my colour scheme and placed my logo on the top left of the page with the navigational bar along the top. I need wanted images that swiped across the page and hyperlinked to different pages. I also searched for free stock images to include in my webpage of people with tattoos and tattoos being created. I did my first website draft in photoshop, this is what I was working on, however I stopped and started it again but developing it in InDesign:

Waves Developed

Posted by Lauren Chandler

I created some graphics and potential logos that used the concept of waves’ and the sea. I combined my colour scheme and my companies title in with the graphic. I also kept the idea of using circles and expanded this by keeping the shapes simple and curved to compliment the outline of the image.

Waves

Posted by Lauren Chandler

I started to work on something a bit different and created graphics that came away from the idea of ships or anchors. I went back onto Pinterest and found some ‘wave’ graphics that caught my attention and that inspired me to create something a little different.

I started creating a graphic using simple shapes that would represent waves and combined my colour scheme and included my font. I want to further develop this idea and come up with more ‘wave’ designs.