Look at that beautiful wedding invitation/announcement/table numbers/rsvp cards designed by Papeterie Store.
1. BEAUTIFUL flower illustration
2. GREAT usage and interplay on the color combination (yellow, white and grey).
3. AWESOME sans-serif fonts used for the names (bonus point!).
and most importantly,
CONSISTENCY of colors, fonts, and layout was maintained throughout the different cards.
In short, the design was tight!
Thanks to Style Me Pretty for featuring them.
A few days after I posted on how I want to lose weight with Wii, Doris came up to me during lunch and offered me something that was totally unexpected and I will remember for a long, long time.
She offered me her TV and DVD player, free (you read that right!) in exchange of designing her personal card.
OF COURSE I SAID YES (though I had to ask her several times ‘are you sure? are you sure? are you sure?’…sorry, Doris I’m pretty sure that was annoying!).
I work on her designs as soon as I received Doris’ answers in response to my questions – what is the purpose, color scheme, information, etc etc etc.
The concept behind her personal card was pretty interesting, and she referred me to this site so I get a better idea. Knowing what Doris wanted the personal card for – as a contact card, a gift tag, something to scribble notes, etc, really helped me visualize (like, there should be ample white space for her to write on!)
I came up with four designs
(purple rectangular shape covers email address for privacy purpose on this blog):
Before I go further, let me just share the choice of font for her name. I initially used Century Gothic, simply to enhance the circular perimeters of the D, O, S, C and U. However visually, CG doesn’t work. I knew that the font for her name has to be sans-serif and where the x-height across all letters must be of same height.
Then it hit: DKNY. I had to look for a font similar like DKNY.
The font that I used is called PetitaBold. You can download it at DaFont.com, my number #1 source for fonts.
Anyway, back to the designs, Doris loves #4! With a few tweaks (taking out the gold outerglow, adding in “C” into her monogram), the final design was done!
I also prepared a soft copy of A4 format upon her request.
By the way, if you’re curious about the opacity grey ‘clipart’ at the background, it is actually a font (no kidding!). In DaFont.com, there is a category called Dingbats. It means that for each letter you press, a dingbat/icon/picture will come out instead of the usual font interpretation. There are 21 sub categories under Dingbats (from Aliens to Shapes to Nature), so experiment, experiment!
I also offered to print out her personal cards professionally done in Bangkok for free, so I’m really looking forward to see a hard copy of this design. :)
It’s really been a blessing to have this opportunity to do something I love and in return, get something that I really need. I’ve decided that this TV will serve a greater purpose – not only will I be able to exercise, but I’ll also try my best to document my exercise progress with Wii here in my blog, so that others may benefit (who knows!) :).
Cheers up to a great 2010!
