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A few months ago I was given an interview assignment before I started working on projects for the Home division at Bealls. I basically had 24 hours notice to do a bed in a bag design. I never posted it, but here were the results:
I wanted to keep to a pretty conservative theme and color palette to show that I can be sensitive to the Florida customer.
And yes that bedroom template might look familiar. It was the one I created for my Culture Pattern Bedroom, but I was glad to have something ready to use on such a quick project.
I know that I have not posted anything in quite a while but I have been working on a lot of different things actually. I’m surprised and also happy to say that I’m making a decent living on freelancing – some design, some illustration (probably about 50/50). I’m doing work for a local publication/crafting materials company called TJ Designs. It’s mostly design/layout work for packaging and print materials related to vintage themes and ephemera for Altered Artwork, Card-Making, Rubber Stamping, and Scrap-booking. Since they are products owned by the company I can’t really post much from what I’m doing there.
I also have been continuing to freelance for Lotus and Knickers for which I plan to post a lot of the design work I’ve done for our advertising, eventually. (Up till now I’ve only posted illustration work.)
My biggest and most exciting client in my life right now though is Bealls department stores. I wanted to wait a little while before posting anything about it in case it didn’t work out. I also won’t be able to post a lot of things I’ll do for them until after they are in stores. But here’s a little bit to show what I’ve been doing so far:
When I first started interviewing they asked me to do some “Florida Friendly” icons as sort of a test run. This was all the direction I had so they are for a variety of customer demographics and aren’t based on any of Bealls’ actually lines/or current color palettes.
Shortly after the interviews they gave me my first freelance assignment! I was given 4 patterns that hey had purchased at a trade show and was asked to translate them into vectors/perfect repeats for their pattern library. Here they are: one 1-way repeat and three 4-way repeats.
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I was preparing to post the new application elements I’ve recently created for some of my portfolio pieces and I realized I hadn’t posted some of these things originally. So here is the little three ring notebook diagram I made to display another application of my beach girlie design:
This is just one pattern design that I made using some characters I did in the Carter’s workshop:
This is a personal project I never posted, inspired by Peyton the 3 1/2 year old I’ve been babysitting for almost 3 years:
And these are the applications for the art, a magnet toy (the new paper doll) and a flash dress up game concept, which I intend to learn how to actually make/design more thouroughly one day:
And one possible application for the tropical watercolors could be for a restaurant menu:
