Secrets

So, this is a little complicated, because I certainly don't want to put up my secrets online. So I made some up and some are just random not so secret secrets. I'm sure you know this is inspired by the utterly voyeuristic, but totally addictive www.postsecret.com

Story - Shut up - Kiss - courtesy SoodooSen.

Posters

So I've not had much to do of late apart from waiting, waiting and waiting for this stupid commercial to take off. So I busied myself with some poster designs for an imaginary orgnaisation called BRAINSPILL. They don't really mean anything, but I'm bored, humor me. I want to play some more with the fonts. Then, I'll work on the cleverness. For now though - tada! I like the idea of really bold solid colours with illustrations and heavy fonts (I've used Kilogram and Xirod).

Round Labels

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There's this site I absolutely adore (thanks Suk!) called The Die Line which has these really cool package designs. Was playing around a bit, having downloaded a whole bunch of cute fonts, and got me some inspiration from DL.

Green Leaf (Mint) - is one of those fancy dried herb thingies in those squat, transparent glass jars with corks.

Royal Riviera - is just some boring, random wine

The guy with mouth - is not really a label, but a lid for a steaming hot coffee cup

Spice (Cinnamon) - is like green leaf

Pure Juice - is a peel off label-lid

Fishy - is fish food - the little dots are the holes

Swiss Mints - are well, little coin shaped Swiss mint chocolates, also in jars with a porcelain stopper

Blue Glue etc - are peel off jello label-lids

Have some more ideas, but very little time. This is fun but.

A-Peel

So here's something fun I discovered online. It's called the Peeled Effect and it's lots of fun. Try it. Had some fun with this dude here and the second picture is self explanatory :)

Obviously not very refined - the edges are a little meh - but I couldn't help the haste. Have fun!

Project Save a Picture

So I stumbled upon a fabulous picture on Yay, which said: Take an ordinary photograph, apply a vintage effect and write something in Helvetica (click to see it)- or something to that extent. True. Very, very true. The effect, if used cleverly can be superb. So I fished around for some very meh pictures in my folders and decided to go give it a go. Surprisingly, I have no digital stills of Victoria - so this one I found online and worked upon (Click on the original image). The rest are a motley collection of mediocre pictures I clicked in and around Cal. The text is bogus, so don't bother. Hehe. So, does it work for you?

I didn't want an extremely over processed look - but you know just enough for a touch of drama and warmth. Personally, I think the rickshaw picture turned out the best - and oh, I suddenly love photoshop all over again :)
This one (in Cherapunjee, Shillong) I did a little while back. The original is a little dark, and hardly represents the magic of the moment.

Bookish

Judge a book by its cover. Here are a few.

The last two are like an homage. The first one is like those 1960s Penguin Classics and the last one is a pulp fiction, horror.

Webby

I love visiting cool looking websites. And of late I've started to develop a soft corner for simple, clean designs. Not too heavy on the flash and interactive stuff. Stark, minimal stuff.

So I was fooling around with Corel and came up with some ideas. They are mostly meant for small businesses. Like this one here, is kind of inspired by YAY!Everyday - a website I absolutely adore. In fact, I liked their layout so much that, I wanted to replicate it - so I started

with that. Then Dot A Lot happened.

(This one's a dummy page that I created - for the real thing visit their website)

Green Plug was a logo I created a while back. So played around with a design for that:

I'm not so sure I like it much - but yeah, the idea is again very low key, minimal.

But enough with minimal. Let's get campy. So Joey's Garage & Toolshed happened. Not campy really - but you know what I mean. It could be a pop up ad, if not a full fledged website. The ad on the left hand corner is Trojan's. :)

Here's a hybrid between the colourful and the classic.

And this one's for the comic lovers.

Working on more - as and when inspiration strikes. But hey, if you have a small business and are looking for template ideas, drop me a line :)