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• Wedding Invitations
• Choosing Colours
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BrittCoxon: Had a great time at @TheLateShows today and yesterday. Report to follow on blog. Thanks for fantastic evenings, look forward to next year.

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As a designer and maker I'm always doing new projects, often these projects find their way to the far corners of the web. This site is my central hub, a way of pulling all those projects back into one place.

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Wedding Invitations

I enjoy doing markets, I get to meet new people and talk to them face to face. I was absolutely delighted when at a recent market I was asked by Joy and Marc if I would do their wedding invitations.

A few sit downs over coffee and discussions about wording later and we were ready to start making our plans a reality. So, with many sheets of paper, over 1000 Swarovski crystals and a corner rounder I set to work producing the custom designed wedding invitations. Each of the 210 invitations included an invite card, an RSVP card and a poem. The poem card can be seen in the photo below.

There was a lot of work involved, I wanted them to be perfect. After all, they were for a wedding and you don't get to do that very often. Joy and Marc were very pleased with the invitations and had them in the post to their guests the same day.


I hope I get the chance to do wedding invitations again. I've suddenly got so many ideas for something that little bit unique.

Choosing Colours

The other day I had an interesting conversation with Paul about design, specifically about how I start a new design. It was interesting because it was something I'd never put real thought into before, just something that I do.

When I start a design the first thing I do is think about what colours it should be and how those colours will work together to convey the feelings of the design. Only then do I think about the shapes and actual layout of a piece. I can't even see a composition properly until there's colour in it, everything just seems flat and the same.

Working in layers of card limits the amount of colours you can introduce to a piece, making it important that all the colours work together for the overall design. If a colour is there just for one tiny dot, then is it required for the design? Can that dot be the same colour as another layer? Does it then help bring depth to the piece?

I've learned a lot in the last year, about colours, composition, cutting and sticking. There's still a lot to learn. Maybe starting with colours isn't the most sensible working order but it's what works for me. Without them life is boring and everything becomes harder to distinguish. Maybe that's why I've always written with colourful pens, much to the annoyance of my teachers. My maths teacher probably had the hardest job, maths was orange.

Some useful colour resources:

http://www.colourlovers.com/ - make a palette for each of your projects, search through existing palettes, great for inspiration gathering.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in-cultures/ - everything on Information is Beautiful is worth your time and attention. This is a wonderful diagram of what different colours mean within different cultures, notice how much it differs? It's always worth checking this out, specially if you're doing work for use in a culture you're not familiar with. Check out meanings for your own culture, it might surprise you.