Friday 11 February 2011

Latest Kinamba logo

There was a slight hiccup in the designing of the logo where the design had to be in Black and White so it was back to the drawing board. They also wanted more focus on Africa and hope rather than primary school.
This is my design which they have chosen to use, it is a tree to represent life and hope:


Tuesday 8 February 2011

Window displays

I visited London on the weekend and as always I was impressed with the window displays especially at Selfridges which is famous for their window dressing displays. Windows provide a space where designers can go crazy and create something eye catching from any item in store to make passers by stop and enter the shop. Here are a few I found and liked from a variety of shops:








Wednesday 2 February 2011

Kinamba Charity Logo

The Kinamba project is a newly established charity that provides nursery and primary education for the poorest children in the outskirts of Kigalii in Rwanda. It also provides adult language and literacy classes and craft programmes. I was asked to design the logo and based my design on the primary colours and shapes that children would learn at nursery and primary school and built them up to make a K:

Battle of the Bands

I was asked to design flyers, posters and tickets for another charity event. 'Battle of the Bands' raising money for CLIC sargent for children with cancer. I went for bold bright and simple so that it is easily seen. I wanted minimalistic text so that it did not loose interest from people looking at it and in the case of the flyers stands less chance of been thrown out straight away. Here is the design I produced: