A Week in the Life of a Fancy Feminist Designer

       Just kidding. But kind of not?..... Read on to see a week's worth of my design work for my logo/business cards and upcoming line of feminist merch. 

      Monday:
On Monday I designed my business cards, playing around with various layouts and colours. Here are some of my favourite designs that I came up with:

Business Card Front Option #1

Business Card Front Option #2

Business Card Front Option #3

Business Card Back

       Tuesday:
On Tuesday I decided on my business card design, but encountered a design flaw. Here are the designs I chose:

Front

Back

The line running through the leaves on the front is thicker and more uneven than the line running through my logo on the back of the business card. This also means that the lines on my shop banner match the text on my banner and logo, but the lines on my logo match neither. On my online store this isn't as noticeable, but on a business card it becomes a lot more obvious. 

       Wednesday:
On Wednesday I worked on thickening the lines in my logo, and later did some research for my "Less Catcalls More Cats" design to see what I wanted my cat to look like, as well as the arrangement of flowers in the design.

Cat inspiration photo.

Cat inspiration photo, wondering if the cat in my design should be pink?

Flower inspiration photo.

       Thursday:
On Thursday I took a break from my logo to work on the "Less Catcalls More Cats" design for my line. 

A thumbnail sketch, to get an idea of what layout I wanted.

I transferred that into photoshop with the font I want to get a better visual.

I started out sketching some cats, and ended up really liking the one in the middle.

I traced the sketch onto a new page so it wouldn't be so cluttered.

I swatched some markers to get an idea of what colour palette I want to go with for the cat and for the flowers in the design.

Swatches of what colours I will be using for the cat.

Swatches of what colours I will be using for the flowers.

       Friday:
On Friday I finished up my logo:

       Saturday: 
On Saturday I practiced blending my markers and did some practice pieces:

Used some of the colours that I will be using in my "Less Catcalls More Cats" design to get a feel for the colour palette.

Practiced blending with my topic markers.

       Sunday: 
On Sunday I picked up a few more copic and prismacolour markers to fill in any gaps I would have had with blending.

       There it is! A week's worth of my design work. Fun.