Beauty Breakdown / / Cheeky

Good morning creative people! 

Welcome to a Beauty morning with me, MaJo :) Every Thursday I'll delight you with gorgeously packed beauty products (and every now and then, I'll even throw you a beauty secret). 

The other day I was looking around when I found the image below. 

I was struck by the beautiful and trendy color palette, as well as for the simple but pretty silhouette illustrations. I did a little more digging and discovered it is Cowshed's new brand... or as they called it, it's "naughty little sister." Please meet Cheeky :) 

 

 

Images courtesy of cheeky and lovely package

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read. See you next week with more inspiring designs. Have a great day, MaJo.

ABSPD Inspiring Quotations / / Competition Winner!

Happy Friday! Today we are announcing the winner of our ABSPD Inspiring Quotations Competition & showcasing some of the AMAZING designs we received. We get send many emails & words of gratitude from the alumni of The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design (which makes the hard work worthwhile) - & thought it would be fun to ask students to design their words into a visual testimonial. You can see our winner below. We have tried to share a diversity of creative styles but please be sure to check out our testimonial Facebook album to see all of our wonderful entries! We would like to thank everyone for their brilliant designs & kind words, it really means a lot to us. We love the ABSPD community & we are honoured to be a part of it!

We are excited to launch the next round of classes this very Monday, there's still to join if your quick! (*This is the last time we will run the courses until Spring 2014).

Love the #ABSPD team x

And the winner is...

Brandi Powell! 

We thought Brand's design really showed her signature style & we loved the clever composition & the way she used her motifs & typography.

Below you can see a variety of lovely designs that were entered:

Sam Osborne

Anneline Sophia Designs

Faye Brown

Bethan Lumb

Gill Eggleston - Pattern Addict

Joanne Cocker - Jojo Coco Design

Jo Elise Designs

Melanie Pennell - Bee and Haych

Nicola Griffiths - Pikadoodles

Rosie Simmons

Sonia Atwal - Apple Kaur Designs

Ali Benyon Designs

Carolyn Greifeld

Inspiring Quotations / / ASBPD Alumni & Student Competition!

Happy Monday! Today I am sharing with you lovely testimonials from some of the students & Alumni of 'The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design (the e-course)' as well as some of my own motivational quotes. We are also giving the ABSPD community an exciting design challenge (read below for more information).

The Challenge

We are thrilled to announce we are running a mini competition for all e-course students & Alumni! We would love for you to create your very own beautiful typography design! The winning designer will be given a free place on the e-course Module of their choice! (This includes 1, 2, 3 & the brand new Module 4). Below you can find the competition requirements:

• Create an inspirational typographic design in your own style & media (this can be hand-drawn or created with different fonts)
• The quote should include your own testimonial on how you have found a Module or the e-course as a whole, for example: “Maybe this course should come with a health warning as it is so addictive!”
• Please supply a 550 pixels, 'save for web' jpg & send to kelly@rachaeltaylordesigns.co.uk with your full name, website & social media links
• Deadline: Midnight (GMT) Thursday 7th November
• You will also need to share your design on social media. This can be on our Facebook page or tweet to @MakeitinDesign or @SurfacePatternD. Use hashtags #makeitindesign, #surfacepatternecourse or #ABSPD
• The winner will be announced on Friday along with a supporting showcase on the Make It In Design blog & on this blog

Love Rachael x

The above two images are an example of testimonials from past & current students

The above are examples for styling inspiration!

If you have ever dreamt of having your own designs on homewares, stationery, fabric or other products then HURRY & sign up for Module 2: Creating Your Professional Identity or Module 3: Monestising Your Designs, running November 11th! Register now as these modules will not be running again until Spring 2014!

Beauty Breakdown / / Top Shop

Good morning creative people! 

Welcome to a Beauty morning with me, MaJo :) Every Thursday I'll delight you with gorgeously packed beauty products (and every now and then, I'll even throw you a beauty secret). 

This week I want to show you some makeup products I found in Top Shop. They immediately caught my attention for their monochromatic packaging with sketched-style illustrations. I find the overall look very modern and chic. What do you think?

How cute are the sketched raindrops? 

All images courtesy of Top Shop

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read. See you next week with more inspiring designs. Have a great day, MaJo.

Beauty Breakdown / / Bath and Body Works

Good morning creative people! 

Welcome to a Beauty morning with me, MaJo :) Every Thursday I'll delight you with gorgeously packed beauty products (and every now and then, I'll even throw you a beauty secret). 

Ok… I don't know about you, but I'm a huge clean-hands freak. It bothers me not to be able to wash them whenever I want when out and about so I can't leave my house with a pocket sanitizer. There are many out there, but some of my favourite (for their fragrances and cute labels) are those sold by Bath and Body Works. Here are some of my favourites:

I also love the cute and quirky holders they sell. They the ideal way to make a cleaning product fashionable. Wouldn't you like carrying your sanitizer in one of these?

All images courtesy of Bath and Body Works

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read. See you next week with more inspiring designs. Have a great day, MaJo.