January Blues

A busy festive period for designjr always finds her much distracted by the forces of cake for birthdays and events. January seems calmer with resolutions and plans for the forthcoming year still feeling fresh and possible.

Plans for 2012 include a wee update for the designjr website, more work on tactile graphics for Fife Society for the Blind and hopefully lots more opportunities to produce beautiful designs that speak for themselves.

As always please feel free to use this month's calendar as your desktop and if you have any problems give us a shout.

Time for tea

The Salvation Army are working hard in the Dunfermline Community. They asked for my help with designing an attractive A5 leaflet for handing out to people on the street. It had to be eye-catching so I stuck to their brand colour of red (which also happens to be my favourite colour). The simple image of the coffee cup leaves the text to do the talking.

If you'd like to find out more about the work that The Salvation Army are doing check out their website at www.salvationarmy.org.uk

Tis the season to be jolly

We're already part way through December. We've made it through the first snow of the season as well as "Hurricane Bawbag"and here I am just posting my December calendar. It's my busiest month of the year with the enjoyment of a cake to bake each week. Once I've eaten more cake than I really should there will be lots more design projects in the new year.

As always please feel free to download my festive calendar image for use on your desktop.

When two worlds collide

After completing the logo and identity for Airthrey Ltd I was then asked to create branded cupcakes for a seminar. You can see more details of how it worked out on my other blog over at www.uppercutcakes.com. It's all part of the service!

A breath of fresh air

The brief was to create a brochure website for the well established firm of solicitors, Marshall Ross & Munro. I concentrated on the idea that as they have been around for so long they have helped clients through many generations. It had to look professional but also friendly and welcoming.

My involvement included taking the head shots of the 4 solicitors working in the firm. A window backdrop isn't an obvious choice but in this case it really works to keep the site fresh.

Check out the rest for yourself at www.marshallrossmunro.co.uk

Busy bee

It's been all go for designjr lately. At the beginning of the week I was in Cupar checking out some details for the tactile map I'm creating for Fife Society for the Blind. I was also lucky enough to be part of a panel hearing pitches from some of the UKs best design agencies for the branding and website design of an up and coming charity. On top of that the brochure website for Marshall Ross & Munro solicitors is almost ready to go live. Rounding off my very busy week a spot of lunch at design great Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Willow Tea Room.

Airthrey Ltd

Recently I've been working hard on identity and branding for a brand new company. Airthrey Ltd are a Learning Evaluation company set up to help businesses to make the most of their learning and development investments.

The brief for the logo was to incorporate the business aims with a castle theme - the business having been named after Airthrey castle in Stirling. No easy task but I did this with a bar chart/battlement combo. Running with the bar chart idea I turned the business card on it's side to give it a stand out layout. A fresh company needs fresh colours and inspired by our autumn photoshoot at Airthrey Castle orange was the colour of choice.

As well as taking photos for the website I also provided consultation on the website's overall appearance and have laid out the first paper in a planned series available from the resources section of aithrey.com.