Meghan and I finished up her blog design quite a while ago, but it’s taken me this long to finally post about it! Hey, better late than never, right? We had so much fun working on this, from the very beginning to the end. The mood board for this project is one of my very favorites – she wanted to go with a writerly/retro/professional feel, using black and different shades of blue as the main colors. She wanted to incorporate a typewriter somehow, and I think figuring out how to do that was the hardest part. I tried quite a few different things – putting a drawing of a typewriter in the header, putting a small one in the sidebar, and more things that I can’t even remember – but it just didn’t work with the title design. So I finally tried just using the keys…and somehow it just fit. You know that feeling when you’ve tried everything and then there’s that one solution that just works? Yeah, it’s pretty nice. Thankfully Meghan loved it! =) I always enjoy working with her – she’s one of the sweetest people you’ll ever meet. Go check out the blog – it’s an awesome community of writers who share tips and thoughts on writing.

I love the colors and style we’re using for this project. While we’re using pinks and purples as the main colors, there’s an edge to the whole thing that keeps it from being girly. I think the combination of soft pinks with hard blacks – just like the combination of the flowers with the shot of the city – is really neat. I’m enjoying going in a direction with this project that I haven’t gone before! So far we’ve finished the logo and are on to the site…and we’re going to do some pretty unique, full-of-personality things with it. I’m looking forward to sharing the finished product soon!

This design is probably one of my very favorites so far – I love its simplicity, with the little elements here and there that make it what it is. I think my favorite part is the handwritten “Bleu Alice” at the top…I love incorporating hand lettering into designs. Alice was so easy and fun to work with, and since we have very similar taste when it comes to design it was even easier to achieve what she was looking for.

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I don’t normally include what could be termed a “brand board,” but because there were some elements in this design that I especially love, I wanted to share them!