Design Makeover
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Heard of Layers magazine? No, I hadn’t either. That was until I registered my Adobe Creative Suite 4 software with Adobe and they offered me a free, three-month subscription as a gift for registering my software.
The magazine describes itself as a “How to magazine for everything Adobe” and is available both in digital and hard copy. If you select the three-month subscription gift from Adobe, they allow you to download the latest three issues in digital format which you can view onscreen using a software app called Zinio Reader.
I downloaded my three free issues and started browsing through them – to be honest, it’s a pretty good magazine with some interesting tips and tricks and articles provided by professionals who use Adobe’s software.
Each issue they run a really interesting feature called “Design Makeover”. Basically, the publishers of the magazine take a particular piece of existing design (which has been submitted in by the owner), that is serious need of a refresh and ask three designers to provide a ‘design makeover’. The subject of the article can be anything ranging from a website, magazine layout, book cover, piece of packaging or CD cover etc etc.
I viewed this as a great opportunity to get a piece of my design work out there and hopefully generate some leads. So I contacted Layers magazine and made them aware that I would be interested in being a contributing designer to this article.
Low and behold, within the space of a month or so, they asked if I’d have a look at doing a makeover on a company logo and website layout that had been sent in. Below is the before and after…
Before.
Business Cards… at long last
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Finally, after constantly being put on hold, I’ve managed to get round to designing myself some business cards.
Just sent the artwork off to Moo – hoping to get them back a week on Monday.
These are just a temporary measure and should keep me going until I can invest some serious coinage in proper, die-cut versions.
If you’d like one of my cards – drop me an email and I’ll bang one in the post.
Slicker Interactive Advertising
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A logo and business card I recently designed.
The concept behind the letterhead and compliment slip is that members of staff will stick actual stickers on plain paper – therefore making each letterhead and compliment slip unique.
The Watkins Development Group
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A logo and identity I recently completed design work on.
Candylicious
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A logo and identity I recently designed for a specialist sweet shop in Glasgow.
Postcards from the past
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Many, many years ago when I decided to go full time freelance/self-employed, I struck upon the idea of designing a couple of sets of self-promotional postcards. Now back in those days, I was trading under the name ‘jgr22′ and Creative Bomb was the merely the title of a set of these self-promotional postcards – how things have changed.
As it turns out, I still have quite a few sets of these postcards knocking about. So if you fancy a set, drop me an email with your name and address and I’ll get a set out to you.
4Most Fitness
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Just completed a small Wordpress website for my cousin-in-law. View it here
