Just received an email from the webmaster of a site called Logo From Dreams, to let me know that one of my logo designs has been selected as their Logo of the Day. Thank you Logo from Dreams and all the best with your website, looks like it’s becoming a nice resource for logo inspiration.
I love having a nose at other people’s old junk at car boot sales although very rarely buy anything. They’re great if you need something in particular, like a exercise bike or a Vauxhall Haynes manual, if for some reason you want a Soda stream you could easily pick up quite a collection of them for about £3.50. I’ve not been to a car boot sale for a while, but this Sunday morning, folk across the country will be rushing down for a new reason - to rake through the boxes of dusty old LP’s!
Why? Well you can forget Bebo and Facebook, a new online craze has hit the nation - Sleeveface!
Shopping Bags have long been used as a marketing tool by high street retailers and supermarkets. What better way to remind other shoppers to check out your store than creating crowds of shoppers unwittingly acting as walking billboards?
Retailers recognise the value of providing carry bags emblazened with their name and logo to their customers, indeed we’d find it a bit odd now if Next or Marks & Spencer’s provided our purchases in a plain, unprinted bag.
For some, the design of their carrier bags is becoming almost as important as the collections they stock. I read recently that the Saks store in New York spent nine months deliberating over the design of their carrier bag, envisioning it as “a piece of modern art”.
More recently, manufacturers have caught onto the idea of buying advertising space on shopping bags, and using the space to promote their specific product. This has led to some clever marketing campaigns and created some carrier bags that provide a memorable experience. The photo opposite is a great example of an effective, eye-catching advertising campaign for a product to help people stop biting their nails.
When the dark nights set in and Christmas approaches, I always feel inspired to dig out the scissors, pritt stick all things sparkly, and start making things! Whether it’s christmas cards or crackers, candles or jewellery, this time of years seems to rekindle my lifelong love of all things crafty!
Since becoming freelance at the start of 2005, I seem to have misplaced any spare time I once had to enjoy tinkering about with beads or wool or cardboard. Everything I create these days is digital, so it’s nice once in a while to get my hands dirty with live crafts (or covered in fluff and glitter glue should I say!)
For a while now I’ve had a notion to combine the two, I’ve wanted to spend some time fathoming out how blogs really work and find an excuse to find some time to get crafty! So, this week (or after one long night earlier this week) Crafty Inspiration was born!
Crafty Inspiration is a blog site that I’ve put together to provide ideas and inspiration to people who want to get crafty. I plan to fill it with step-by-step guides and lots of photos of various crafts. It’s a work in progress at the moment but if you want to see what I’ve been up to with shaving foam, satsumas and old crisp packets this week, check it out!
I first discovered Terramundi Money Pots when I was given one as a moving in gift when we bought our first home a couple of years ago.
