I’m so excited to finally be able to share this with you! Kari is a seriously talented wedding photographer, and I was honoured to be approached by her to carry out the graphic design work for the redesign of her site Kari Bellamy Photography. And here it is!
For the brand identity, we have the main logo which is hand-lettered and painted, with custom illustrations, sub logo and repeat pattern tiles.
For the blog & website makeover, I also made a textured watercolour background, as well as all site navigation buttons.
One especially fun part is the watercolour navigation bar, with little illustrations that pop up when you roll over them – go take a look here – it’s fun!
I have such a great time making a full suite of web & print graphic elements, which totally transformed Kari’s site. Especially because I got to do lots of drawing and painting :) I do love making things out of paper, paint and pixels!
Thank you Kari for being such a pleasure to work with. I think it’s so important for small businesses to have a brand and identity that reflects the personality and nature of the business, as well as the person behind it, and I’m so pleased with the outcome here!
I love my new site!! Thanks Claire!!!
Yay! I’m so happy that you’re happy Kari :) i think it looks really unique and creative!
Brilliant work – you’ve done a great job with all this, and the finished site looks amazing! I didn’t realise you’d gone analogue with it – not many people design for digital with actual paper and REAL stuff. It’s an uncommon approach, but I think you’ve nailed it with this design.
Awesome stuff – now make more! :)
Thanks Jonic :) yes analogue is how I do the majority of my stuff… Make on paper with paint, then turn it into pixels! It gets a fairly rigorous edit in PS.. Deleting a paper background sadly isn’t just the click of the mouse! I love the hybrid way of working though – best of both worlds!
This looks amazing – you are so clever :)
Thank you :) that’s lovely of you to say, I’m really pleased with how it’s all turned out! xo
Would you be interested in sharing how you got the icons to show above the menu when hovered?
Hi Kelly, I’d love to but, I’m afraid I can’t help out here – the coding for this was done by Kari’s husband. Claire xo