Classic Book Cover Wedding Invites – Its been a busy year so I havent had much time to post much on here, but here is a few photos of some recent classic book cover themed wedding invitations. Still a very popular choice for soon to be married couples I have designed book cover themed wedding invites for couple all over the world and shipped them to Australia, USA, Europe, Hong Kong and many more far off places.
Acoustic River Festival Logo Design Derry – This is a logo I designed for a forthcoming music and dance festival to be held in County Derry during the Derry 2013 UK City of Culture year. As the title may suggest the festival is to be held near a river bank and hence my choice of colours for the logo, the blue’s to represent the river and water and the greens to represent the river bank and earth. The festival is going to incorporate all types of music and dance so I built up the river bank in the logo design using all sorts of music and dance based icons.
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A5 Flyer Design & Print - This is a new flyer design I recently worked on for Party Golf Derry. Party gold provide a crazy golf set up for events and parties which can be set up practically anywhere inside or out. This current flyer design was targeting weddings as a an added extra bit of fun that people can hire and have for their guests at their wedding day. Definitely a must for all golf fans!! To see more flyer design work click here or click here to get in touch about any type of graphic design project…
Cinema Poster Wedding Seating Plan - Happy New Year Everyone! where did 2012 go? It will be missed!! However onwards with 2013 we must go! But before we kick straight into the new year here is a wedding table plan I designed for a couple who got married over Christmas. The seating plan is based on a Cinema poster as they wanted a Movie themed wedding. This one turned out pretty cool, it has the cinema in the background with the couples names on the cinema screen and then has a lost of actors who are starring in the ‘made up’ movie, these actors and actresses are the table names for the wedding. Underneath each of the actor and actresses names is the list of guests that will be sitting at that table. I am looking forward to working on lots of new wedding table plan designs this year who knows what is around the corner!!
If you are having a movie theme wedding or cinema themed wedding or any kind of theme for that matter and need a wedding seating plan click here to get in touch…
Have a good 2013 everyone!!
Festival Wedding Table Plan – This festival wedding table plan is the final part of wedding stationery I have designed for a couple of festival lovers from London called Kelly & Brian. You will have seen previous posts on this blog of some of the other wedding stationery that I designed for these guys including festival ticket style wedding invitations and also festival style wedding lanyard. This wedding has been a delight to work on and all the stationery produced has been really fun to design and really interesting and I myself have got a massive response from other people interested in festival themed wedding stationery. So to wrap up this part of the wedding stationery the Festival Wedding Table Plan below follows the previously designed stationery and is in the winter wedfest festival theme, with all of the wedding tables named after Kelly and Brian’s favourite festival names… below you can also see the table cards that I designed and printed for the wedding tables which have the same winter wedfest theme and the name and logo’s of each of the festivals the tables are named after… all in all this wedding is set to rock if the stationery is anything to go by!! cant wait to see the pictures! good luck to Kelly & Brian.
If you are interested in a Festival Wedding Table Plan or festival themed wedding stationery – Festival Wedding Table Plan please click here to get in touch…
This is a range of christmas promotional A4 flyers / shop leaflets I designed and printed for a group of Spar and Eurospar shops in County Derry, Northern Ireland. The leaflets are for the Spar and Eurospar shops christmas offers and be available in store and also be delivered door to door in the local areas. To view more of my flyer designs click here or get in touch if you want to enquire about getting flyers and posters designed and printed for your shops.
This is a wedding menu I designed a few months ago and totally forgot about until someone inquired about something similar. The wedding was in Scotland and I had previously created a Scottish themed wedding table plan for the couple and then they wanted their wedding dinner menus to have a quirky design also, so they came up with the idea of a Scottish walking trail. after some research I discovered the west highland way trail which covers a large part of the country side including popular spots such as Loch Lomond, Ben Nevis, Fort William and other parts of the Scottish Highlands from Milngavie just north of Glasgow to Fort William. So anyway I used this route as the layout for the days events including dinner, drinks, dancing, and other parts of the wedding… It turned out pretty cool as you can see below…
If you want something similar designed or you are having a themed wedding please click here get in touch and see what we can do for you….
The Penguin Books Wedding Invitations I have been producing over the past year or so are still as popular as ever. People go for all sorts of colours and finishes for their wedding invitations but the classic orange penguin books still is the most popular. This one below titled ‘All you need is Love’ is a perfect example of the bookish look that be achieved by the penguin books wedding invites. This one has been finished with some vintage staining to give it the aged and worn look that an old retro book may have after sitting about for 50 years.
These invites look great and are really brighten up where ever they are placed when on display. All these invites can be totally customised to suit your wedding, titles and themes.. if you are interested in these vintage orange penguin books wedding invitations please get in touch….
It ’tis’ the season and it tis nearly upon us which can mean only one thing for a designer – christmas designs! to be fair most designers, myself included usually be designing christmas graphics in the middle of the summer! but in the run up to christmas it certainly gets a bit more manic! Christmas sends people crazy – Fact!
Anyway below is a range of business Christmas cards I designed and printed for a dental practice in Derry called North West Orthodontics…. If your require corporate Christmas Cards or any type of cards designed for your business please get in touch…
Below is a set of wedding thank you cards I created for a couple from Donegal in Ireland, who got married earlier in the year. The couple Cliona & Philip requested that their cards be black and white only, no colour and sent me on superb black and white photos to use on their personalised wedding thank you cards. They printed out beautifully as you can see below and look really classy and elegant. I finished of the design by adding a polaroid picture of the couple with their little boy on the back of the cards. Great photos and this made for great thank you cards. If you are interested in getting some personalised wedding thank you cards designed and printed please click here…
I have designed alot of wedding invitations based on book cover themes and especially penguin books classics covers, this next design follows that same format but the couple wanted the wedding invite to look and feel even more like an actual book. The only way to do this is obviously add some pages to the book and thats what I did. I took the information that on other invitation packs may appear as separate cards and put it all on to one book design.
So the first page is the front cover as normal, once you open the book invitation there then is an inlay page, on the left is a poem and then again on the first right hand page is the cover title again, much like you would see in an actual book. Once this next page is opened you are presented with the actual wedding invitation information. Flick on to the next page and there is more information about the wedding including maps and directions etc.
This book invitation looks really cool, the inside pages were all printed to look like an old aged book and have that vintage feel to it.Although it only has a couple of inside pages it really gives of the look and feel of a real book! Like the look of it? want it? contact me…
Below is a set of save the date postcards I created for a couple called James and Caroline. The 2 of them are originally from Dublin and both moved to Australia a few years ago where they then met each other and discovered they were from the same place back in Dublin. On a trip to New York they got engaged and are coming back to Ireland to get married. So they wanted to reflect all their trekking around the world in their wedding stationery. I suggested the idea of a map of the world and highlight the key areas of their relationship, where they are from, where they met, where they got engaged etc.. they liked this idea and asked could I make it look like a vintage style postcard… The results for the save the date card are below…
Following on from the range of penguin books wedding invitations I have worked on below is some penguin books wedding save the date cards that couples have ordered. These are great if you are having a book themed wedding or just in general fancy something a bit different… For more info on these or my penguin book wedding invites please click here to get in contact.
The Brady Academy of Music runs monthly Irish & traditional music sessions around the county of Derry and beyond. I have designed previous posters for these traditional sessions and they asked me to create them a Halloween based poster for their forthcoming gig. I wanted to focus mainly on the halloween side of things and then try and fit some kind of irish music theme into it, and it was easy really, once I finished the main poster I had ideas of making the gravestones in the shape of instruments but the answer was much simpler. The shape of the moon is the shape and colour of a bodhrán ( an Irish frame drum ), so I put a celtic design around the moon to have this represent the bodhrán in the background. For more poster design please click here or if you require any posters or graphic design work please click here to get in touch.
I always say in these posts that this is my favourite yet (so I have a lot of favourites clearly) but this festival ticket style wedding invitation is definitely one of my favourites I have done, or even seen to date. This wedding invitation was designed for a couple of festival lovers called Brian and Kelly. Originally Brian and Kelly were supposed to get married in the summer but had to put their wedding back to winter so when they mentioned the idea of a festival ticket as their wedding invitation the first thing I thought was that summery festival imagery for a winter wedding wont really work, so with a little bit of magic ( and some snowflakes ) Winter Wedfest 2012 was born.
So how I came up with this marvel was simple… I took the inspiration from previous wedfest invitations I have worked on and I put the word winter in front of it! Genius I know! So anyway Winter Wedfest was the theme for the wedding and the wedding invites were designed to look like concert tickets, complete with a perforated tear off stub which doubles as the RSVP card so the guests can easily tear of the ticket stub and post it back to Kelly & Brian.
The front side of the festival tickets is designed up with the winter wedfest graphics and then the reverse is made to look like a printed ticket with all the information, times, dates, venues etc… These invites came out fantastically well and look amazing in your hand. For more information on these festival ticket wedding invitations or any type of wedding stationery please click here to get in touch.
I was extremely pleased last week when the management of American Hip Hop/Rap Band Cypress Hill got in touch with me and told me they had seen some of my previous design work and would like me to design the poster for Cypress Hill’s forthcoming US tour and a variation on the poster to advertise the bands headline gig at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square New York City on Halloween Night. Supporting Cypress Hill on the tour is New York rapper Action Bronson who also features on the poster design. A great project to work on! *Insane*
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Once a wedding is over usually the last thing for the newly married couple to do is send out wedding thank you cards. To most people this marks the end of a year (or more) of crazy organising, planning, meetings, fittings, ordering, buying, shopping, fighting, threatening to call it off, changing minds, and more organising until basically you are drove mental! haha.
However on this particular occasion for me this marks the end of working with Amy & Allan, a couple who are a designers dream, and I loved working with on their wedding stationery. I dont really produce normal or run of the mill wedding stationery so when they contacted me with their ideas we were both on the same page. They wanted something different right from the start. For their wedding invitations I designed them a very font heavy and stylish vintage style poster wedding invitation. This still is one of my favourite wedding invitations I have worked on to date… click here to view the wedding invitation… After this they contacted me to design their wedding table plan, and again they wanted something different and we ended up with a music festival style poster for the table plan… click here to view the table plan… Finally they got in touch with me to design and create their wedding thank you cards, again looking for something different Amy suggest the idea of an Instagram style print, from here I suggested the idea of a polaroid style print with a wedding photo on the front and the back as a postcard so they could send out these out as thank you cards… after a bit of fine tuning we arrived at the following… a polaroid photo style wedding thank you card … and I know I always say this but its my favourite yet!! I printed these with a gloss finish on the front to give the real feel of a polaroid photo print… check them out below… if you fancy getting something similar done click here to get in touch…
Every year for Dan’s Bar & Restaurant, Co Derry in Northern Ireland I design and print them a Christmas themed restaurant menu and bar entertainment guide. Following on from the one I designed last year I kept with the retro christmas theme as these look really cool printed and I love that retro christmas style or artwork… These flyers were printed A4 and then folded in half to A5. If you have a Bar or Restaurant and need flyers designed or printed click here to get in touch…
Below is a recent A4 folded to A5 flyer that I designed and printed for several businesses who operate in the one area. The flyers were for a Costcutters shop and deli counter, a hair salon and a Tyre and Battery centre based in Claudy, Co Derry on the Foreglen road. for more examples of flyer design and promotional business material please click here. If you would like some flyers designed and printed for your business please click here to get in touch…
Below is a set of Gift Vouchers I designed and printed for Velvet Hair Salon in Claudy, Co Derry, Northern Ireland. The vouchers were finished with a gloss laminate on the front side and a silk finish on the back for ease of writing. if you require some gift vouchers design and printed or for any business stationery design and print needs please click here to get in touch with me…
This is the latest Book Cover Design I have worked on this year. This project was for a author called Jonathan Dunne and his book called Balloon Animals. For more about Jonathan’s Book you can buy it on amazon kindle by clicking here…
Below is a quirky and unusual yet really cool wedding table plan I created for a couple who just got married. Like alot of the work I have been doing recently Kate & Alex wanted the table and seating plan to reflect their love of music festivals but wanted to do something with a twist which is how we ended up with the signpost which is directing to the stages etc, under each stage name (which are also the table names) is the names of each guest who is sitting at that table. It turned out very cool and looked really fantastic when printed. View more wedding table plans here…
This is a wordpress content managed website I have just finished working on for one of the UK and Irelands leading Drywall Contractors – RAEMAC Interior Systems wh are based just outside Dungiven, Co Derry, Northern Ireland. To view the full website visit www.raemac.co.uk
This is the latest wedfest – festival themed wedding table plan I have designed. The festival themed posters for wedding table and seating plans are ever popular and being festival season there is no better time to be working on these fun music festival inspired table plans. Good luck to Jacqui & Derek for their forthcoming wedding…
For the past year I have provided many couples with penguin books inspired book cover wedding invitations so I thought it was time to freshen things up and move forward 20 or 30 years and look at the designs of book covers from the 60s, 70s and beyond and try and use some of those retro themes to create some new book cover inspired wedding invitations which moves away from the classic 3 band covers. This one below for Denise and Robert is a perfect example to represent how any wedding invitation can be made look like a retro themed or vintage book cover.
Paul ‘Dudey’ McCloskey is back in action in this September against boxer Manuel Perez. Also in action is Dungiven’s Eamonn O’Kane and Belfast Boxer’s Carl Frampton & Martin Lindsay. This is the latest promotional boxing poster design I designed for Dudey’s camp for the upcoming night of boxing…
This is a website I recently completed for Derry based Architects Tracey Architects. This is the latest architects website design I have done in the Derry area. Being design minded people Architects are great to work with as they just tell you exactly what they want, and the result is the following…. www.traceyarchitects.com
If you are interested in my web design services please get in touch by clicking here or click here to get a quote for some design work.
This is a festival themed wedding table plan and festival themed wedding table cards set I designed for festival fans Bride & Groom Bridgeen & Johnny from Strabane, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland….
These are wedding mass order of service booklets I designed and printed for a recent wedding of Bride & Groom Claire & Brian who are from Derry in Northern Ireland. I also designed their wedding invitations earlier in the year and kept the theme running through the design of the wedding mass booklets. If you require order of service booklets for your wedding or want to get in touch for other wedding stationary services please click here to get in touch with me.
Following on from the logo redesign I worked on for Wane’s World In Dungiven, Co Derry, Northern Ireland this is an A4 folded to A5 4 page brochure design I created for them to promote their upcoming new offers….
This is a series of wedding invitations I designed which were based on book covers of old penguin books, some with a vintage feel to make them feel more old and worn. I have done these invitations in all sorts of colours and they look fantastic, nearly like a book in your hand…..
This is a brand identity that I redesigned for Wane’s World Party & Play Centre in Dungiven, Co.Derry, Northern Ireland. Wane’s World already had a logo design in place from when they first launched but it had become stagnant and needed revived and redesign by adding some fun into the brand. Basing the new logo design on the brand identity that they had already built up I simply updated the characters of the boys and girls and added in some new fun text which would appeal to children and made the colours more vibrant so they jump out and attract attention. All in all this is the perfect update to their brand Identity as anyone who is already familiar with the old logo design would look at this one and instantly recognise it is the same company but with a fresh new logo design.
This is a poster design / flyer design I designed for Dental Excellence Portadown who are part of the Dental Excellence Northern Ireland group whom I also design websites for. View more samples of posters and flyers on my website by clicking here…
This is a new website I have just launched for Northwest Orthodontics who are an orthodontic dental practice in Derry. This is the latest in a line of Dental website designs I have worked on with more to come. I am very pleased with the outcome of this site especially the clean colours, nice imagery and clean navigation. You can visit the live website by clicking here… and if you are looking help with your website click here to get in touch.
This is a set of wedding invitations I designed for a soon to be married couple from Derry, Northern Ireland called Clare & Brian. Clare wanted a pink and light grey theme for her wedding invites. These wedding invitations turned out really beautiful and the feedback from them has been great, the design although modern and classy has a slight vintage feel to it. For more samples of wedding invitations and wedding stationery please click here…
Lately I have been designing a lot of wedding table plans and wedding seating plans (both the same thing but people refer to them as one or the other). A popular theme for these wedding table plans is festival wedding table plans - to have them designed in a music festival style poster. I have done a few festival style wedding seating plans so far but this one is by far my favourite.
This couple got engaged a few months ago after featuring on Keith Lemon’s new TV progamme called Lemon-Aid. You can watch the video of the guys on Keith’s show by clicking here….
Claire contacted me asking for a a music festival themed wedding table plan based on a few of her favourite music festivals. The result can be seen below and really looks great, take note that special guest on the day will be Keith Lemon himself, what a great guest this would be to have at your wedding. If you are looking for a music festival themed wedding table / seating plan then please get in touch…
See Claire and Tim’s appearance on Keith Lemon’s Lemon-Aid below….
Keep Calm and Carry on Wedding Invites - These wedding invites for Sophie and Matthew are based on the old Keep Calm and Carry On posters which were produced by the british government during the second world war. This Keep Calm and Carry On poster design has a resurgence in the past few years and has been re-issued over a range of products such as war memorabilia, posters, tea towels, mugs, t-shirts and pretty much anything else you can think of, which brings us to wedding invitations.
Sophie and Matthew wanted to use the Keep Calm and Carry On theme in their wedding invitations and wedding stationary design but still have an antique and vintage feel about it. The wedding invite I designed shows the Keep Calm and Carry On theme on a red wooden background with cracked white paint showing the text which has been changed to Keep Calm its just a Wedding Invite, and on the reverse the wedding invite details are on some old torn and worn paper. These invites where printed A5 size to give a sense of a small sized Keep Calm and Carry On poster which could be kept and possibly later framed by the person that receives it.
If you are interested in Keep Calm and Carry on Wedding Invites or something similar please get in touch…
This is a Poster Design for the Summer Session for The Brady Academy of music who host live music sessions with lots of different artists playing different instruments each month when they get together each month for a irish traditional and folk music session.
My friend’s Elaine and Ashley recently got married and I designed their wedding invitations and wedding stationery including their wedding order of service booklets and wedding table plan and seating chart. I have already posted about these in previous posts but here are a couple of amazing photos taken by wedding photographer Lauren Rutherford. Lauren’s photography work is amazing and these photos are only a small snippet of her talents in wedding photography. Check out her blog here… and thanks to Lauren for letting me use these photos.
Penguin Books Wedding Stationery – Penguin books wedding invitations are very popular and most couples like to stick with the traditional colour of orange for their penguin books wedding invites but every now and again a couple will request a different colour, usually to tie in with their wedding theme colour. This is the case for Brian & Georgy. For their Penguin Books Wedding Stationery they wanted to have an aqua blue theme in their penguin books wedding invitations and these turned out amazing. They also ordered RSVP cards and directions cards which I tied into the whole theme and this resulted in a really nice wedding stationery set which you can see in the photos below…
This is a cinema / movie themed wedding table plan poster that I designed for the wedding of Elaine & Ashley who got married this weekend just gone by. The tables were named after some of hollywood movies greatest stars and the design of the poster reflected a cinema poster with some images of the actors and actresses and the bride and groom as the centre of attention.
Festival Wedding Seating Plans - This is the latest music festival themed wedding seating plan that I have worked on for a couple called Amy & Allan who I previously designed festival themed wedding invitations for. Id like to wish Amy & Allan all the best for their future and congratulations on the wedding!!
Business Stationery Northern Ireland – This is a Business Stationery Pack I designed and Printed for Larissa Feeney Accountants who are based in Derry & Donegal. I have previously worked with Larissa on her websites and some other projects. For this project I provided the design and print of business letterheads, compliment slips and business cards. They turned out pretty cool as you can see below. I can provide Business Stationery Northern Ireland all over the country and beyond so If you need business stationery designed or printed please get in touch…
This is a 3 fold Beauty Salon brochure design and business card design I created for a Beauty Salon in County Derry that was having a recent relaunch after moving into new premises. The Beauty Salon Brochure design was based on the colours of the logo design using the pink and black throughout on a white background. Good Luck Michaela!
If you like the look of this Beauty Salon Brochure and are looking for a design or printing for your brochures and business cards then please get in touch.
This is another dental poster design I have designed for Foyle Dental Spa in Derry advertising their six month smile service….
These beautiful wedding thank you cards are ones I designed for Bride & Groom Marcus & Marie whose wedding invitations I previously designed, you can see these by clicking here. As there wedding was a winter wedding I wanted to keep some of that feel in the thank you cards but not too mush as its now spring. I achieved this by keeping the colours red and white to tie in with christmas and also the colours of the venue where they held their wedding reception which was The Red Door in Fahan. The photos were taken by Derry photographer Donal Doherty and they really make this thank you card stand out. See more wedding thank you cards here….
This is a web design I worked on for Kerry Cullen who is an occupational psychologist, alignment coach and yoga instructor who is based in Donegal, Ireland. This was follow on work from the logo design I created for her which can be seen by clicking here…
This is a festival themed wedding seating plan that I designed for a bride and groom who are getting married today I just realised!! So good luck to them and I hope their wedding day is the kind of festival that they hoped for.
This is one of my favourite wedding invitations that I have worked on. The bride to be Amy contacted me looking for a vintage poster style wedding invitation made up nearly completely from typefaces and calligraphy. She wanted to keep it completely black and white in order to tie in with her wedding theme colours. The results can be seen below and they turned out to be really cool wedding invitations.
This logo design is one I created for an Alignment Coach and Yoga Teacher called Kerry Cullen who is based in Donegal, Ireland. Kerry is a Occupational Psychologist that specialises in Alignment Coaching but is also a Yoga teacher. I wanted to come up with a logo design that wasn’t leaning to much towards the yoga side of things as there is already lots of that out there and her work more focuses on the alignment coaching side of things. After many attempts and several yoga inspired designs it struck me that alignment coaching is all about balance and the image of the balancing pebbles was exactly what I was looking for. With some colours inspired by Kerry herself the logo quickly took shape and looks like below.
From here we were able to use the image of the balancing pebbles for the brand identity other purposes which will be carried through Kerrys business stationary and website. Below shows the balancing pebbles with some of the keywords that Kerry uses to inspire her clients in her coaching.