Journey of a New Designer

It’s been a great run.

I’ve worked with many projects and numerous talented people. Briefs that have had me up till 2am and some that have taken an hour. Animated strange and wonderful things and also Illustrated a small red chilli named Pep’e.

But God wants me to go in a different direction now and New Light Graphics is no longer part of that.

I’ve had a lot of fun but today is not a sad day as I’m doing Gods will and waiting for the next adventure.

I pray that those who have been reading my blog be inspired and seek God out and I thank you for your interest :)

Cya!

Working with a rather special person to get some Illustrations out there that mean something.
Don’t understand what it is? Look up the reference at the top left and let the illustration and verse connect.

I like doing work like this, it’s very important to me.
The most important messages are often communicated in the simplest of ways.

You will see more of these type of Illustrations and other things too coming from New Light Graphics. I have taken a moment to sit and think about what designing really means to me and what my drive is behind that, I’ll be honest I had a lot of help from God with that one :)

I tend to be swaying more to Twitter these days than Facebook, so for the most accurate update go to my twitter profile NewLGraphics.

Well things appear to have slown down quite rapidly. We all know what that means…
I can finally get some personal projects underway, no point feeling defeated its time to make my brand stronger and I have the time to do it.

Expect some new content from us very soon, anyone who follows and likes me should know this already :)

If you follow our Facebook & Twitter then you may recall we were being creative, plus a little naughty, and getting our doodly randomness on. Well, here is the result. 

Enjoy!

So,

its been some time since my last post apologies its been a rough few weeks! Filled to the brim with various projects. No two are the same and I am loving it!

I have been working with someone from the Manchester Gospel Radio show on a Pregnancy care audio book which was quite fitting being as I have a 13month old. All the info and literature is still fresh in the old noodle.

We are now submitting work to the lovely people at Early Learning HQ who supply free resources for teachers at Key stage 1 & early years. Its a great way to inspire young people, saying that makes me feel old, to get creative and really look at a design in a new way whilst being educational at the same time. Win Win! If your a teachy type and want more info then follow this link to their website.

Also the rumours are true and we are creating an iPhone game. Its not going to come out for a while yet but you better believe it will be awesome! Name?, well all I can say is its inspired by quick feathers. Picked your curiosity?

Well thats the latest update, keep checking back as my updates will get more regular while this brand goes from strength to strength.

Stay creative!

Well what a week so far…

We are currently working on a pregnancy care audio book cover sleeve and disc design. Now that’s all fine and good but we needed a model for the front of the cover who was pregnant, so I got the all clear from the client to take and use a picture of my Cousins wonderful fiancé Vicky.
I was looking forward to using pictures of a family member and really good friend on the case, but everything changed today when I got a text from my Cousins dad saying that the baby had been born!
I am over the moon and so happy that my cousin Liam and Vicky got to welcome the little one into the world today. I won’t post his name because he is all new any shiny and it’s his parents exciting job to tell everyone his name.
But then I realised that I had no model with a bump anymore! Blessed that I am however I have a back up plan.

Moral of the story: Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do only God knows what’s going to happen next.

With that in mind it’s good to have Him in charge of New Light Graphics. Quite the worthy Director, wouldn’t you agree?

I quoted from Hebrews earlier, the reason for this was because I had a revelation today at church which was simply to put God first and to trust Him with anything and everything.

God gave me the name for this company, has supplied me with work and opportunities and continues to help me & the company grow everyday.
So it’s only right to trust Him with the direction that we go in and watch how He unfolds the future of New Light Graphics.

Be Blessed

We have added a string to our bow,

We are now supporting all you creative writing people a little more. As of today we are now publishing books onto Amazon Kindle.

So if you have a book idea that needs to be taken to the next level or if you have already written a book and want to widen your audience then get in touch.

New Light Graphics is moving from strength to strength, with new services and clients popping up all the time. I am proud of all the people we network with and with the way the business is developing. So this is a massive shout out to everyone who makes this business tick and to our supporters!

Stay creative.

Following the launch of out new site we are starting a competition where we are offering to create 1 free logo/poster for the lucky winner.

We want to know who inspires you in your work place and why. The person can not be a family member or partner.

To enter please go to the new website and input your contact details and answer into the “Contact us” tab.

A winner will be announced on the 25th of september.

Major update to our website has taken place and is finally finished! Huzzah!

What you can see is a small snippet of the site but if you wanna see more then your just going to have to visit www.newlightgraphics.com and find out for yourself.

A huge thank you to John Tribe for helping us get onto the Wordpress platform from our previous CMS platform and for the advice that came with that too.

I am very pleased to announce that we are officially taking web development & wordpress projects due to us now networking with John Tribe.

John is a fantastic Web Developer that has made it possible for us to offer services to customers like never before.
Such as 72 hour turnaround times on websites, Mobile sites and much more.

Due to the above we are taking more work on, cheers John were looking forward to future projects with you.

Design can be a funny thing at times.

Don’t think that you have the correct design for your client from the word go because you will be in for a surprise and the fact that people get surprised is a little silly. The reason I say this is because as Designers we essentially are the pencil in the hand of the client and if the client has an image in mind and you produce something completely different to that image they may not like it and that can be hard for some designers to take in fact I know of a few that get angry with this fact. Also silly.

You have to give your clients room to breath in the sense that they may or may not have an image in mind, the way to help prevent that is to ask them for any and all information on what they want even if that means you repeat yourself a few times over.

Don’t get frustrated if your designs are being knocked back by clients, instead relish the opportunity to do some more design work. A friend of mine once said;

” People hate red lights. I used to but then one day rather than get angry I realized that that traffic lights are the only place where you can find that particular shade of red. So I look forward to seeing that shade of red instead of getting angry when I come to a red light which makes it easier to deal with. “

Don’t make unsuccessful pitches and/or designs be your red light!

Hello readers,

Wow! That’s the easiest way to describe what is happening in the world of NLG.

To be very brief and to the point, clients are popping up everywhere.in the space of a few days our clientele has nearly doubled! It’s exciting stuff, especially since we are getting involved in creating some artwork too, glad we kept the artistic roots in the ground. So keep on the lookout for some one off art work.

We are now working with KD creative on any promotional graphics for upcoming events. These people support a number of different charities too which is amazing.

Also, check out the newly revamped www.newlightgraphics.com which mow will feature a different home page, hand drawn, image every month so if you have any suggestions send em through!

If things keep on going the way they are, which they will, we may start work on an eShop addition to the website to support our artwork venture. However we need to know if people will use this service, so please send us your thoughts and feedback.

Have a creative week, If you have an idea then go for it!

I was walking down the street this morning when I saw a window cleaner washing a window. That in it’s self I know is pretty normal but the equipment he was using was pumping water to the end of the squeegee ( the thing they use to scrape water off the glass ) and I thought to myself that is genius!

It’s often the simple designs that make the biggest difference.