Month: January 2018

What a beautiful surprise to collaborate with a sister national. One Sunday I get this call from Mallow and as I was listening to her voice, I couldn’t understand what she was saying, expecting English, I was baffled to listen and lavish in my own Romanian language.

Lavinia is an amazing jewelry crafter, playing with silver sterling and Swarovski crystals, and, as a result, her products are purely outstanding and sparkling. She created the brand so pretty called Magpie Gems and as it goes: one is for the color, two for the joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven gems always to hold, eight for a wish, 9 for a kiss, 10 for a jewelry you must not miss. That’s truly sweet.

For her Magpie Gems business, Lavinia needed a strong branding and graphic design for print: logo, packaging design, business card, thank you card, tags, flyer, poster, and invoice design.

In the meantime, you can check her masterpieces here.

Every time I have a new web design project, I get to meet new people, learn different approaches and launch these dreams online for others to meet and share. Triona O’Sullivan is an exceptional acupuncturist and massage therapist, having her cabinet set in Kinsale, Cork. She needed to set up a website with a control management system and responsive on all devices. Checked, checked, checked!

She also didn’t want a classic website with “a click on that and go view the info in another page”, she wanted a system to display everything on one page with sections revealing as you scroll down. Triona chose the A Master Page Website Plan with content split in a sequence of visual branded sections. A handy side little menu accompanies the scrolling, jumping from one segment to another. The website’s divisons included info about her practice, services, photo gallery, contact details, and testimonials. Each section needed to echo the branding visual of the dragon as a symbol of the Chinese medicinal practice, and displaying the contact details.

At the end of our collaboration, we happily launched this baby weby: www.trionaosullivan.ie

Met Elaine in a cute coffee shop in Cork and as she was telling her dream, I was thinking what a fabulous project to work for. She told me how she wanted to work for the health benefit of people, how to coach them to reach a greater state of wellbeing with a holistic approach to wellness, what would be the four pillars of a good health, and as she was counting them, I was thinking: “Uh, I’m bad at that! Really need help at that! What about cakes and cookie?”. But her motivational energy and great looks proved that I can go that way too.

For her Cork Nutrition and Wellness programme, Elaine needed a branding, a website, and an introductory video. We joined forces and established a really good looking visual for her business, designing the logo in such a way to express the four pillars of a good health: 1. Eat Well, 2. Move More, 3. Sleep Essentials, 4. Stress Management. Each pillar had its own graphic, representing the action. After the logo, color scheme and voice was set, I finished also the business card and then proceeded to set up the website. This was done on a reliable WordPress platform with the content management system and responsiveness on all media, connecting it to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google + and Youtube. I’ve also set up the search engine optimization functionality and set it up in Google Business. I really loved the end result, the looks are invigorating and motivational.

Elaine also called a cool videographer for her introductory video to be displayed on Youtube. And I finished up the looks in After Effects setting a video front and back design.

You can view the project here www.corknutritionandwellness.ie