FPE Services Logo and Header Design
June 15, 2010
I always love when previous clients come back to me for other graphic design projects. This client, I worked with last year on her blog header. And I guess she was pleased, because now she has come back for more. Gotta love a happy client!
This client’s requests were fairly simple. She needed a logo and header design for her new Virtual Assistant business called FPE Services Online. She specializes in WordPress and Social Media Maintenance.
These were a few of her specifications:
- Some sort of Socialable Icon representing social media maybe?
- Colors – blue and silver
- Graphics in the header to represent social media platforms
With not much to go with, it was really up to me to come up with a design that would best suit her business. When I plan a design for any graphic, whether it be a logo, header, or even a button ad – I always first take a look at what the business or website is all about. So, for this graphic, I took the idea of a social icon and came up with a couple different option for her to choose from.
I let her know that my personal favorite was #4. And she also asked opinions from some of her friends and family and that was one of their top choices as well. So she decided to go with it.
My next project was taking the logo design and creating a website header for her. I thought a lot about how to incorporate the different social networking and media icons into the header and then decided to tie in the site’s title “Social Community Organizer”. When I think about organizing in business, I think about file folders. So, I decided to create file folder images with the social icons on them. I also incorporated the circle design from the icons into the background of the header as a faded finish into the blue. Great opportunity to play with the image fade in one of my favorite (free) design programs called Gimp.
My client was very pleased with the outcome on both the logo and header designs. Can you believe I didn’t even have to do any revisions? I LOVE that!
Blog Header Design – Golden Rule VA
June 5, 2010
I often look at people’s websites and blogs and envision a new header design for them. I have a wonderful virtual friend who I came to know on Twitter named Melissa (@TheGoldenRuleVA). She has been extremely supportive of me on both a personal and business level over the past few months that I have known her. I always appreciate people who take the time out to answer when I tweet.
Well, I decided to check Melissa’s website (www.TheGoldenRuleVA.com) out one day and I saw that she did not have a very nice header. It was the basic plain header that went with her WordPress theme that included her title and tagline. I sent her a quick DM and asked her if she would be interested in having me help her with a custom header design. She agreed and was very excited.
I sent her my usual list of design questions:
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These are just some of the ideas that she emailed me:
- Likes golden/orange color. “Golden” reminds her of honey and her name even means “Sweet”
- Wants to incorporate bees
- Incorporate pink (her favorite color) in flowers
- Wants to portray personal yet professional image – cute but not too cutesy
So, I took her ideas and came up with this design:
She loved it. These were her exact words:
“Ooooh I like it!! Love how you made the background honeycombs! So cute! And even the Golden Rule looks like it was written in honey! So great!”
Her WordPress theme was a little tough. I had to do some work in the css code to get the header to look right with the search box, but it wound up working out in the end. So, yet another happy client – which makes me even more happy.
Here is the matching button:
And here is the header in action on her site:
