Logo design

A few logos i designed. The first was for  a Toy store, The second a construction company and the third for a telecommunications company.  The logo designed was more to emphasis on typography. The first i cam up with by play with a slinky, and looks like a P being repeated. The second has a shape of an A where the blue and red colours show. The third is the telecommunications wave as the T.  I would probably work on the Telecommunication logo design a bit more. but here they are.

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Romeo & Juliet

When i first had to do a poster for a play. I chose Romeo & Juliet. How cliche? But i wanted to do something away from the norm, which is  guns & roses, and broken heart and probably a blood or even bleeding hearts or roses. When all else does not seem to work, we sometimes forget what an impact just type alone can have. I would change things a lot now though in this poster, as i am picking up more design skills.

So here is my graphic design poster of romeo and Juliet.

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Designing Labels

Ok, So here is a label i designed for an alcohol beverage. Yes it is a made up alcohol and a brief i worked on before people start jumping up and down and say, but you don't drink alcohol Sam.

I was really pleased with this. Basically the choice of colours used and the design for the appropriate target market- which was woman. If this label makes it on an actual bottle i would buy it just for the design of the label. I once made one of my friends (Lauren Whittey) take home a glass bottle just because i loved the packaging. Graphic designers spend hours designing wonderful packaging and everyone just rips it open and puts it in the bin. Pity-but at least they bought it.

Graphic design Alcohol Label


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My First Logo.

After some time of not blogging, i realised i better get back in the blogging mood.

Ok when i still at the beginning of learning about graphic design, I wanted to design a logo for myself, that represented me in some way. The attached picture is what i came up with. It is basically my name written in arabic tilted on it right, with a S. It was so show my Two parts of me the S for the aussie and the arabic- well quite obvious. As i spent hours working on this logo, i began to realise, that the first impression people will get about this logo was that i was of some arab descent- which i am not and maybe it wasn't the best logo to attract a wide range of clients. i vitoed that logo, perhaps it would look better as a painting for my room?

Sam As I am

My First attempt at Typography was shall i say a failed version? well i love henna, or as they call it in my language "mehndi" i thought to myself that i will write the alphabet with this, at that time, just a beginner, i knew nothing about the rules of typography.especially x-height of the letters, the stem, the ascender, the descender, i mean nothing! but yet i experimented anyway just to be creative and start my first typography attempt. I've attached a picture that explains the typography jargon i'm talking about for those of you thinking, "what are you on about?"
Sorry the quality might be a bit bad but i scanned it from a book.

The book is 'Typosphere by Pilar Cano and Marta Serrats.

and well this is my first typography attempt when i knew nothing and thought how cool am i making the alphabet, not even knowing there was a subject called "typography". 

Well i'm swamped with work so thats it for now. 

Have a good long weekend! Especially you Genna!

When i first started out doing Graphic Design, i was coming from such a 'in the books' subject i.e psychology, i was thinking what? i can actually make a career of being creative? So i started out to my venture of doing something i truely love. I started out with short course in Graphic Design to see what i was getting myself into- i was in love.

I'll be uploading my much earlier work, when i was a complete amateur, perhaps i still am. I like to learn with a theory that goes something like this

" A wise person is one who knows, that there is more to know, than what they know, you know?"

Whoever said- was a bloody genius! This made me be critical of my work to believe that learning is endless and it just makes me want to keep getting better at what i do.

Since this is my somewhat of a first post i won't bore you too much.
Attached is a my first ever typography work, i got so excited about all the different things i could do with type in illustrator.

The Giraffe starts to write!

We all say we are going to start a blog but procastination gets the better of us. My Friend Genna inspired me to start my own blog.

My blog will convey my graphic design work and any other art works and illustrations i may do. For now i am in no mind set to write something fantastic to make you laugh. I have nothing to write about nothing.