Truly Ace

I Rather Like Pink

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:28:31 +0000

I like pink as a colour…. I especially like it with brown, what interesting pink logo designs can I dig up?

Left Brain, Right Brain

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:08:22 +0000

I’ve explained this in recent years to quite a number of potential customers and so thought I’d blog about it. Web developers tend to be involved in the ‘coding’ and building of a website rather than being ‘creative designers’ who can create something aesthetically pleasing and creative to actually look at from a web visitors visual [...]

We Are ‘Ask’ not ‘MacDonalds’

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:38:10 +0000

I can’t count how many times I’ve been asked when first communicating with a new graphic design client with regards to how fast designs can be delivered; what our ‘timescales’ are. Usually before finally been given the tightest deadline known to man that no design provider on this earth could ever manage without reducing their [...]

Pricelists And Branding

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:11:36 +0000

I was on the phone earlier today to Euphoria Beautique discussing the latest stage in their brand identity overhaul, which is to make some decisions about the re-design of their ‘pricelist’, as it was described to me. We’ve discussed the pricelist several times over the last month and each time I was having the growing feeling [...]

What Are Pantone Colours?

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:49:17 +0000

For those of you not in the know, Pantone is a colour pallette containing 1,757 unique and individually numbered colours. These were devised to help designers and printers specify colours for printing projects. Pantone is sometimes referred to as PMS - Pantone Matching System, and it also sometimes called ‘Spot Colours’. It’s important to know all [...]

All Hallow’s Eve Designs

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:46:14 +0000

Murrrhh ha ha ha, it’s All Hallow’s Eve tomorrow. As witnessed by my pumpkins above Not lit … it’s not dark enough yet. Want to see some cool spooky/Halloween designs? See below:

Fashion Design Success

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:24:11 +0000

I was absolutely delighted to visit the Shop For Bags website yesterday evening and see that my longstanding US client (owner of retail businesses Katydid Collection and the massively successful wholesale business Shop For Bags) had put her Breast Cancer charity motif design to excellent use.

First Impression Printing

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:30:50 +0000

After telling me how pleased they were when their stationery arrived, Voicespan have kindly sent me some samples of the stationery we designed and had printed for them, shown below.

Great Logo Concepts

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:04:26 +0000

I was just doing some research for a client for their fishery directory business logo design and came across this fab logo… don’t you think it’s really clever? I don’t often comment on logos I come across, I really think this a great design though. Not ‘totally’ loving their website, but their landing page is fairly [...]

Olympian Mindset Identity Design Project

Amanda - Truly Ace Graphic Designer — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:22:21 +0000

Last week I developed a company identity for a newly formed arm of Cariad Hynotherapy - called after some brainstorming; Olympian Mindset. The company name led to some interesting research which evolved into a design concept that the client was immediately happy with. We are now moving onto stationery design and front end web design to [...]