confetti in the air...

so wedding’s are all the rage in my friendship circle.  kind of hitch-hiked onto the wagon myself by designing invites for stef and kerry (which was mainly a graphic design job)…

... and have since been asked to do the same for the aforementioned lana and her bloke adam, who are having a picnic themed wedding.

they want brown paper/cream colours with typewriter/art deco fonts... so here’s some work in progress to show the latest front/reverse of their save date card, and a couple of earlier bits I’d offered up to get in more drawing and trial fonts…

uk cod

after attending a BNI breakfast get together, met a couple of people who were putting together a pitch for the UK council on Deafness website. they wanted to put forward both a traditional photographic based template, and an illustrative one, so asked me to produce a banner that visualised sound.

wanted to avoid being too clichéd and started trying to be all conceptual… but ended with an abstract landscape the incorporates different environments (city/residential/country etc..) within a sound wave shape. although obvious, i figured the overall shape has an immediate connotation and the necessary impact to hold the attention of prospective website users. i thought interlinking shapes and lines could relate to UKCoD's umbrella organisation status... and i've added in textures to hopefully suggest depth of sound whilst appealing to other senses such as sight and touch, which are heightened when hearing impaired.

we didn’t win the pitch, but i’m not seeing it as failure, considering we were up against an agency who specialise in websites for people with disabilities…