Today is Halloween! Yay!  I LOVE Halloween but living in Scotland it means it isn't the biggest holiday celebrated here. However, every year me and Darren always do a little bit of celebrating- like last year we both made pumpkins. This year we've been on a bit of spooktacular scare! So we've watched a few horror films I've not seen before including the...

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This weeks LiveMakeDesign features freelance illustrator Sandra Dieckmann.  ...

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This weeks design for weekly words is inspired by illustrator and painted Oana Befort. I really loved the style of her water coloured paintings of flowers. You should definitely go check out her designs! The quote inspiration for this week has just been something that's been on my mind  lately.  Since completing my App Design, I've been in a bit of a creative...

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Today's LiveMakeDesign features Alyssa Nassner, an illustrator and designer from Baltimore.  ...

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I know this is quite a delayed September related post since it's almost November (ohmygod!) but I've only been so busy lazy to do it any other time but it's here now! 1.Fox Shopper Bag / 2. Set of 3 Washi Tape / 3. Turtle Push Pins / 4. 2014 Quote Calendar from Waterstones5. Multicoloured Push Pins / 6. Happy Birthday Washi Tape / 7. Bunny Stapler8....

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So last weekend I showed some of the photos I took while I was away on my Castle Fraser trip/briefing. Today, I am showing the final designs I produced for this brief. Obviously I did have to do sketches and research but because it was a one week brief I kept the majority of my research on Pinterest and only pulled designs I...

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This weeks weekly words is inspired once again from a design I seen on Pinterest. I seen it at the beginning of the week but I can't remember if I've pinned it or not, pinned waaaaay to much on there this week!! This design is created using the font Tanyas Marker Font designed by Tanya.  ...

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This weeks LiveMakeDesign'r is illustrator and graphic designer Joanne Hawker.  ...

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Recently, I have been thinking about my End of Year Exhibition -even though its months away- and how we need to do a bit of branding for ourselves. So because of this I have been slightly looking into companies that do printing for things like business cards and such. ...

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A new feature on my blog, Lauren's Loves. Through this series, I will be updating maybe once or twice a month about trends and other things I'm loving at the present moment.  To kick this new series off I am focusing on the 'Woodland Creatures' trend but a lot of the things I have been gushing over seem to revolve around foxes- oops!...

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The next brief I'm doing at college is to create an app for or based on Castle Fraser. We were given our brief for this mini unit on the day we visited Castle Fraser.  ...

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This weeks weekly words is again inspired by Charles Trippy. Charles, with his wife Alli, vlog by the name of CTFxC and Charles is in the band We The Kings. The reason being for this is because of the amount of stuff he has had to go through this past year... This weeks weekly words is again inspired by Charles Trippy. Charles, with...

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Well it seems like it was forever ago that I first uploaded the Research and Development parts to this brief! But today is about the packaging and promotional stuff that I had to create as part of my unit.  ...

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This weeks LiveMakeDesign is Lilla Rogers Global Talent Search winner- Zoe Ingram! I stumbled across Zoe's work not long after I started up this blog. Zoe started her venture into becoming a designer since a young age being interested in design and all things creative since her childhood years. During her high school time she spent a large amount of it in the...

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Giorgio / Champagne & Limousines / AirMax90 / Journal / English Essay / Acarne / LemonDrop Natural Log / Typewriter / Faerytale Woods / DirtyPop / Dollie Script /Windsor These are my favourite fonts from this past month. A few of these fonts have been featured on my weekly words posts from the past month. So I hope you get some inspiration from...

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This weeks quote is taken from a quote I seen on pinterest here. The design for it has been inspired by  Lindsay Whitehead- the face of Unraveled Design. I found Lindsay's work in a calendar I bought the other week from Waterstones (which will be featured in my September Haul soon!) and I really adored her designs. Her designs revolve around typographic quotes...

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This weeks LiveMakeDesign features illustrator Emmeline Pidgen.  ...

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Once again another new month is here! Where does the time fly? Soon it'll be Christmas!! Am I allowed to say that yet or will I be shunned into silence? ...

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