recent work | el & roger's order of service

I wanted to share with you a wedding order of service which I was recently asked to design. El & Roger wanted something modern, minimalist and perfect for Spring! I combined hand drawn typography with a clean and modern font, and added leafy illustrations to give it a bit of personality and ensure it was in-keeping for their beautiful May wedding!   

I'm trying to take on more and more freelance design work now, as I just really love doing it. I feel like I could paint, scribble, draw away and play around on illustrator for hours without getting bored! I've set up a facebook page too (eek!), so if you're on there feel free to follow along where I'll be sharing more of my work. And please get in touch if you're looking for a freelance designer! 

+ first photo courtesy of my lovely big sister! 

love a good parcel

In an attempt to buy more of my Christmas presents from small and independent companies, I obviously ended up treating myself to a few things too, oops. Shopping for things online from creative humans is one of the best things ever ever. It’s super easy and stress free, you can get things from ALL OVER THE WORLD, oh, and then, because they’re all so cool, lovely and creative, they go and wrap it up in the most beautiful of ways. Just look at this loveliness, gotta love a good parcel!

1 | I treated myself to this tote bag from Fieldguided, it’s been on my wishlist for like, ever. I totally love it. It’s so gorgeous and reeeeally good quality too.
2 | Knot & Bow does the cutest stationery supplies, all in totally gorgeous packaging. I got some bits for me, and some Christmas surprises too!
3 | This diary by Marjolein Delhaas was on my wishlist at the start of 2013! So I treated myself for 2014 and bought it from Restored, a lovely online shop in Amsterdam. It is beautiful. (Unfortunately it wasn’t available to buy locally this year).

Talking of beautiful parcels, I’ve signed up to the Christmas Post-a-Parcel which Nia has organised! I’ve been sent my partner and am looking forward to getting super creative this weekend!

Also, I’m deleting my old blog in the new year, so make sure you switch over and start following here!

*This isn’t a sponsored post in any way! I just really, really loved these things :)

designer | marjolein delhaas

i discovered the work of holland based designer marjolein delhaas recently, in folklore, which is one of my most favourite shops, handily situated about 2 minutes from my flat. dangerous. anyway, they stock her collection of diaries and calendars. and i am sort of obsessed with them. that calendar comes with a nice long to do list to hang beside it. amazing. it's almost february, so i'm not sure i can justify buying one of these beauties at the moment, when i'm a poor student, and urm, i have a totally ace 2013 diary. these are going straight to the top of the 2014 wishlist though, that's for sure.

moodboard | nice type

the snow is falling thick and fast outside but i mostly have to stay home and get on with my homework. there's nothing like a bit of a pinning sesh to get a bit of inspiration before i crack on with it all. hopefully i'll get to pop out at some point and build a snowman / take several hundred photos of the snow. anyway, i'm obviously feeling a bit monochromatic and typographic this morning...

caramels | sexy | typographic | ks | xo | invite | toast | a few things | t. r. burnham | noble | wild things

totally love that marmalade toast branding.

designer | lisa hedge

i'm doing the usual sunday night homework thing, and just stumbled upon the lovely design work of lisa hedge. urm, she has theee most beautiful, varied and amazing portfolio. i pretty much love it all. soooo much awesome design, check out loads more here.

designer | christian lacroix

who knew christian lacroix did stationery? well, not me. but i do now, and i think it's pretty ace. i have a bit of a thing for stationery. i'm also pretty fond of tokyo, or japan in general really. and this tokyo card is awesome. the design, the colours, the gold. i might buy it just to stick it up on my wall. no one's getting this one in the post from me, nope, sorry.

card found at quill london.