Printing Industry Craftsmanship Awards (PICA) 2014- booklet, postcard, invite, poster design

It has been an insanely busy term (yet again!) Here are some of the key pages from a booklet I made last week for the Printing Industry Craftsmanship Awards (PICA) of South Australia. 

I hand cut all of the linos (a traditional form of printing) and used an aquatic theme to tell the tale. The colour scheme was based on semaphore flags.

I had the best time hand cutting all of the artworks!

The siren calls people to enter (the competition)

PICA is looking for the treasures in the printing industry

The rewards are lucrative if you get them!

A whale was a great mascot for being a powerhouse of the printing industry.

The squid battle (squids have INK right?) Who will get to wear the king of inks crown this year?

The whale in context of a postcard

Style inspiration for porcelain studs

Here are the faces of the girls that should be wearing the new vintage porcelain studs.

Style Icon/ Muse- Elizabeth Taylor

Sometimes when I am designing jewellery I dream of Elizabeth Taylor and her classic elegance and cool charm. I just think of her beauty and millions of jewellery designs flood my head instantly. Here she is in all her amazingness so that you can see what I mean.

"The Big Sleep" Penguin book cover competition 2013

Here is my submission for the Penguin book cover competition for 2013. The book we had to re-design for the book "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. This book is a bit of an spicy novel set in the 1940's and involves a lot of sex, guns and detectives. 

You wouldn't believe it but I almost lost this design 30 mins before the international submission deadline. Lucky that my sweet friend Chelsea found it on the computer

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film,once in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles, California.

The story is noted for its complexity, with many characters double-crossing one another and many secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination in the book about "sleeping the big sleep".

In 1999, the book was voted ninety-sixth of Le Monde's "100 Books of the Century." In 2005, it was included in "TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels."

Georgia Gabrielle Jewellery Advertisement that I made myself!

I made this ad for my jewellery business this week. I am really getting my teeth into my graphic design studies.