Designers of Tumblr

designers of tumblr is a place
for designers to submit their
work and show it off to ourfollowers
and the rest of the world!

we publish tumblr themes, illustrations typography, minimalist posters, product design, crafts, packaging, banding and anything else that's in between!

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I have been lucky enough to have been featured three times (from memory) on this lovely blog. My most recent being my Valentine's work.

see the post here

See the post here.

Thank's everyone who's been liking and rebloging! Means a lot! (thanks for the ego boost! haha) But seriously it makes me feel more motivated to create some more and a reassurance that going into design was the right decision.

- Julie

HAPPY LOVE DAY!

click the image for higher quality

I wanted to make something non-cliche for valentines. And what better way to show your love with food analogy! Just put this together yesterday.

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Here is a WIP screenshot

Enjoy!

- Julie

crafts in rouge tones

I made a brooch today! I was meant to be doing some Valentine's craft but it didnt turn out how I wanted.. So in any case I made a mess in my room and computer table. Kind of altered a dress and made some blooming felt.

Crafty supplies

I'm good at making mess

YAY BROOCH!

Everything else i have done today, not much I must say.

I also started designing some digital art which I can hopefully print and give to my girls for Valentine's instead of what I was trying to do today. I do have something else in mind to craft for V-day though I think it's all very cliche..

That is all

spot cards!

Some more finished cards!

They're pretty much all done, but you get the idea right..?

bokeh & spots

WIP. More info later.

Makeovers

So like this blog, I recently (last night at 3am) gave my tumblr a make over! Changed the general theme and uploaded my own background (some of my photography).

It was a BIG pain in the **** because it wouldn't let me upload the image I wanted for some strange reason. It kept saying it needed to be a particular size and file type which I had saved and adjusted accordingly but NO. And to this day it's still not the image I intended it to be but close enough.

So here's the BEFORE

The AFTER

And the image I was going to use. They're pretty similar though.

So click and check it out! or don't

Hoorah! for shameless promotion! :)

You know you're a designer when...

So I came across this tumblr. It pretty much just has quotes or whatever submitted by people about how 'you know you're a designer when...'

Here are some of may favourites of the ones I have seen sofar.

All too true. Sadly a lot of the things posted show me how much I am still a wannabe designer.. But I will get there!

Also here is another site I came across; Good Fucking Design Advise. It's all mostly things that make sense and anyone could tell you but amusing and relevant none the less. Here is one of them.

Only thing is, the kerneling on this is terrible.

And here is the family friendly version of the site.

Also genius advise.

Hope you people of the internet enjoy this.

-julie

Something I don't like..

Why don't my images show in chrome..?! :(

Works everywhere else. How lame

watermarks

So i finished designing those watermarks for my friend. Drew up the designs he liked from my brainstorming page on Illustrator.

 In the end he picked a few from the above.

The finished product, the bottom is just the same but in white

And the water mark in action

Most of the designs just involved my own handwriting (horah! for my graphics tablet), for some reason said friend liked it..? Which is a first because normally I don't even like my own writing. Although after all this I'm kind of warming to it, at least for this sort of thing (my handwriting still looks terrible in paragraphs). So I decided to write my own name out for a  watermark or whatever!

In action! Click for the large view of this awesome panorama I made of a 'S is for Stalker' (which I also hand worte) photoshoot I did with my friend last year. I think It turned out well.

Yep well anyway I think that's all for now, just doing a bit of post processing on the rest of the photos I took on this day. Hopefully it will make it onto facebook by tomorrow.

-julie

bye bye old blogger theme

Yep, as of yesterday? (or was it the day before), I FINALLY changed my theme! This is just a premade one I found on the net. I'm not awesome enough (nor bothered) to design one from scratch and I didnt want to use the default customising settings.

this will probably be the last i see of you..

Just a bit of brainstorming..

So my friend wanted someone to make a watermark for his phototography and I put my hand up to accept the challenge. He wanted something with his name (Adrian) or this innitials A, P & M.

And here is what I've been brainstorming so far..

Note that there is no gradual working down the page..

Will try and narrow that all down after some client feedback. 

-julie

So sorry blogger..

I wish I posted on here more but its difficult. I would need to have 4 or 5 tabs open when I'm on the net; Email, Facebook, Tumblr, Youtube, Twitter.. That's right, I'm connected.

Well this is meant to be my design blog (I should redecorate) to go along with my photoblog and my general tumblr which I spam with nothingness. And I guess I don't think about 'designy' stuff to post on here till ages later.

But here is a little something. I needed to design a NO FOOD sign for work (because asking marketing staff to design stuff is cheaper than outsourcing). Just something easy and simple I drew up on illustrator.

My work in progress. I had 2 ideas, 3 designs..

and my boss chose this one

It's weird that I say my boss chose it because she is in fact my friend, who was in the same position i am now when she got me the job (well due to connections it was easier for me to get an interview etc.). And now my lovely friend got promoted due to a company shuffle and is now my boss.

Anyway I think I will spent more time posting here this year since I am now in charge of my work blog (also a blogger). So may this be the beginning of a relatively blog-filled year!

- julie

months

three months actually since I've last posted. I guess keeping a strictly craft blog is harder than I thought. I guess I can blame uni, its easier jsut posting updates on my everything blog.

Anyway thought I might just share what I'm up to. Making a dress and just finished the skirt bit. It's looking good I guess. Need to figure out the top bit though..

that is all. I should update more frequently i hope.

CADskies

Yay trophy! This was a pain to do but was okay in the end. And YAY for having two assessments down in 1 day! 

Afew days break till the next one is due...

iPhone apps are FINITO!

FINALLY finished all my iPhone apps!! I decided to finish with woody and tetris!

Now I just have to decide on the packground, finish the interface, and finish the rest of the iPhone rendering...
D:

inspiration: dino!

How cute are these?! Gives my an idea of how to make some of my little doodled characters! I should get back into making my felt plushies again.

♥

iPhone app UPDATE

So here are all my completed iPhone app icons done to date! I have 12 of the 20 that I need before I need to finish the whole interface. Why do I make life harder for myself?! Could have just stuck a picture in there but NO I wanted to draw ALL my icons from scratch most of which I will be making up!

(click for a larger view)

I know there are two lego ones there, I'm not all happy with the background still! Hoping the purple will be okay, need a little more feedback and stuff. I still have a week and I did get through 4 maybe 5 icons today so I should make it in time, despite my  new work hours needing to be in-putted into my planner.

Yeah, anyway need to work on my next icon!

You and me

For graphics. Had to send a letter of sorts to someone. My message was

"Dear Einstein I think you're  awesome."

We had to convey this message using only "you", "&" and "me" and paper manipulation. This is the end result.

The brain was a pain to cut out, I spent WAY too much effort on a workshop which wasn't getting marked.

*j

arts and crafts

Paper mache model for uni. YAY for doing assignments the night before!

Uni work

Just realised that I could post some of my uni work in here (craft blog). Should be my craft and design blog.

ANYHOWS I've been doing some work on illustrator for uni. Have to render an iphone and make up an interface. So what I', doing for my interface is just the main page with all the apps and just make up some of my own apps to go on it.

Here is my lego app:

I want to change the background but I don't know what to.. If anyone has suggestions they are most welcome.

*j