Dayzee Love
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Carl Rothwell
Based in Stockport in the UK, Carl originally asked me to make him double sided business cards. I went on to make him 2 sets of custom postcards and a banner for his Etsy shop.
Responsibilities
Custom Business Cards
Custom Postcards
Custom Banner
Dougal's Den
Based in the UK - I was given a group of illustrations to combine together to make stickers to match the branding of their blog. They also requested a matching set of double sided business cards with a voucher code area on the reverse.
Responsibilities
Custom Oval Stickers
Custom Business Cards
Fig Leaf Soap
Based in Florida, the theme for this new shop would be to 'Live with intention' so the customer wanted a mermaid logo. This design would continue on the banner, avatar and stickers to give a branded look.
Responsibilities
Custom Logo
Etsy Banner
Etsy Avatar
Matching Stickers
Sticker Layout PDF
Denise Black
Based in St. Joseph, Missouri - Denise wanted some custom thank you cards with a vibrant coloured butterfly like the one on her Etsy shop banner. She liked them so much she also requested some matching business cards too.
Responsibilities
Custon Thank You Cards
Custom Business Cards
Villas Yasemin
I have been designing the website for Villas Yasemin since 2004 when we prepared the first website for the 2005 holiday season. This is the third major redesign to give it a more modern blog type feel.
Responsibilities
Layout Design
XHTML
CSS
Image Editing
Welcome to Dayzee Love!
Welcome to the Dayzee Love website. You will find graphic and web design examples from the last 18 months. These range from pin buttons (badges), waterproof stickers, postcards, business cards, thank you cards, web banner and avatar sets and the Villas Yasemin website.
You may be curious about the name and it's possible that purple diamond shaped tablets spring to mind but I will explain. The name Dayzee comes from a simple miscommunication that has happened to me so many times. I say my name on the phone and people think I say Dayzee. I always assumed that the problem was due to my regional accent making it sound this way. Since I have been chatting on Etsy I have discovered this isn't the case. I have made friends with other people called Stacey that have the same problem. Despite being form the Phoenix Arizona and Ontario California people still mishear them and think they are called Dayzee too.
The Love came from another random event. My partner went to buy me a domain name to help me get my art online. He came across an extension called a '.love' and instantly knew this would be the one to buy for me. I was the proud owner of dayzee.love. It cost the same as a top level domain but we found out later that it was in fact a sub-domain and that I would somehow have to get people to install a browser extension that mimicked spyware to get people to be able to view my site.
So...... it was to be Dayzee-love.co.uk instead with complimentary webspace by way of recompense for this unscrupulous business practice.
What I do?
Graphic Design
I started designing on an Atari using a package called Calamus. When I went to University I was introduced to Apple Macs and Photoshop, this is still my favourite package. I also like to use Illustrator and InDesign. I have experience in using Quark Express but like a mix of industry standard packages from the Creative Suite and quirky packages like Xara 3D.
Web Design
I moved quite naturally into web design learning both Dreamweaver and hand coding at the same time. I can write HMTL, XHTML and CSS.
Over the years I have used a number of software packages to create animations or interactive compositions, such as Flash, ImageReady, After Effects and Fireworks. I find the Adobe interface is very easy to work with and can transfer skills easily from one package to another.