KC Designs were approached by RSCM (The Royal School of Church Music) France to re-imagine their existing website that was non-responsive and provide a fresh look. The new website needed to be bi-lingual providing the information in both French and English. The Royal School of Church Music have their own logo and use blue with gold coloured accents. This was … Read More
KC Designs were approached by the UK side of a holiday villa rental complex situated on the lovely Greek island of Paros. The brief was to update the existing site with something that was attractive, welcoming and mobile friendly. There was free range to do anything as their old website was not mobile friendly and performing poorly. AIV UK would … Read More
My wife wants to write about Steve McQueen on her blog website. Problem: All the best photos of Steve McQueen are copyright. “No problem,” I said, “I’ll draw him for you…” Out came Affinity Designer… Problem Solved! An all vector portrait illustration of Steve McQueen. Below is the outline view mode of every object that went into drawing the portrait. … Read More
Briefed with creating a website for a local yoga teacher, KC-Designs created the lotus logo for Reflective Yoga. The lotus flower, or lily, has been a spiritual symbol in Eastern religion for thousands of years. The lotus flower grows from the bottom of streams and muddy ponds to rise above the water and bloom. It symbolically represents being fully grounded in earth, yet aspiring … Read More
Celtic knot in blue. A graphic design based upon Celtic knots. This design is all vectors so will scale without loss of detail. Highlights and low lights have been added to provide a sense of depth to the knotwork. Below is the same design using different a colour scheme. PortfolioGraphics Avatars Headers Logos Websites Illustrations
Celtic knot in gold. A graphic design based upon Celtic knots. This design is all vectors so will scale without loss of detail. Highlights and low lights have been added to provide a sense of depth to the knotwork. Below is the same design using different a colour scheme. PortfolioGraphics Avatars Headers Logos Websites Illustrations
Celtic Cross. A graphic design based upon the Brompton Cross, a famous stone carved cross. This design is all vectors so will scale without loss of detail. Highlights and low lights have been added to provide a sense of depth to the knotwork. PortfolioGraphics Avatars Headers Logos Websites Illustrations
Two Brothers’ Kitchen, a start-up vegan food company, approached KC Designs to create a branding logo that could be used on clothing, decals, social media and stationary (letterhead below). Rather than an anonymous symbol style logo, KC Designs suggested something more personal, using a modern, fresh illustrative style, adding faces to the name. Green was used to reflect the ecologically … Read More
KC Designs were approached by G Mantella Jewellers to re-create a logo to be used on all their bags used when the client purchases an item of jewellery from them. Their original logo – see below – looked a bit too thin and insubstantial, the G and M were too close so the logo was redesigned with bolder lines. The … Read More
This Avatar is not purely aimed at social media but is to be incorporated into a new website, so a slightly different approach was required. The Avatar is also used for social media and was created in Affinity Designer which is a great vector with pixel editing app. KC Designs use the same basic approach when creating an avatar and … Read More
Avatar for social media created in Affinity Designer which is a great vector with pixel editing app. KC Designs use the same basic approach when creating an avatar and work towards realism rather than create a caricature. Features need to be slightly exaggerated – a larger head to make the face more prominent – and simplified, as avatars are often … Read More
Website rebuild and logo:The logo supplied was an old scan of printed material so quite degraded. KC Designs set about re-creating as a vector drawing, utilising Gill Sans for the text and adding the open book element. To this was added differing bottom text elements for the various website pages.The society was formed in 1937 and has an international membership. … Read More
Graphic:This graphic can be used in a wide variety of situations and advertise the place, date and time of the event. It can be utilised as a social media banner or image on printed material.It was originally created in other software but has been reworked in Affinity Designer. KC Designs creates other graphics for St Mary Magdalene, Enfield’s website and … Read More
New responsive website design and logo:This was a complete rebuild of an existing, non-responsive website. The St Mary Magdalene colour scheme is sympathetically based upon colours used in the panels of the Chancel ceiling and Altar area. The Chancel itself contains “some of the most interesting Victorian Gothic artwork in Europe”, created by Buckeridge and Westlake in 1897 and subject … Read More
New responsive website design.Mill Hill Historical Society is a friendly society in which the members meet monthly during the autumn / winter months for interesting talks on a wide variety of subjects from visiting lecturers and arrange day and half day outings during the spring / summer months to places of interest both local and national. The website covers the … Read More
Graphic:This graphic can be used in a wide variety of situations and advertise the place, date and time of the event. It can be utilised as a social media banner or image on printed material.It was originally created in other software but has been reworked in Affinity Designer. KC Designs creates other graphics for St Mary Magdalene, Enfield’s website and … Read More
Creating a new, responsive website using the client’s own colour scheme. KC Designs suggested adding a contrasting orange-gold to the scheme to add visual interest. The original logo, below, whilst good at large sizes, was suggested to be too indistinct at the smaller sizes required for the responsive site, so a new logo was created. The new logo makes use … Read More