I haven’t posted on here in literally five months, so I thought I would write about a few things that I’ve been doing. Unfortunately I didn’t return to university this September for my final year due to medical reasons, but have been lucky enough to have a few illustration/design opportunities while I’ve been back at home.
The first project that I became part of back in March/April was Spoonie Survival Kits. A non-profit charity based business created by a lovely girl named Pippa Stacey. Pippa, like me, suffers from a chronic illness (M.E/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) and decided to create a business that sells little ‘survival’ kits to others with chronic illnesses. These kits include things like hot chocolate, bracelets, things that can be done from bed such as colouring or puzzles or jewellery making kits etc. 75% of the money raised goes to Action for M.E and the other 25% goes towards making new products.
In addition to creating products such as bracelets and quote cards to sell on the site I designed and created the logo along with the website banner, business cards and a few graphics and banners for the social media accounts. At first I was pretty anxious about creating the logo, as I had no idea where to start, but after a few trial and error attempts I ended up with something we were all happy with. The flowers were painted in watercolour and then edited using Photoshop – where the rest of it was added. I’ve loved the whole process of designing for the business and it’s really made me want to do more on the designing side of things as well as illustration.
Along with Pippa, who creates the kits there are two other girls who help run Spoonie Survival Kits – Beth who created and designed the website and Nikki who takes care of all things admin. Click here to visit the website.
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