Church Christmas Theme Ideas
When it comes to Christmas, do you struggle to come up with a great theme for your service? Does your media team start asking you in August what the plan is for Christmas? or do you leave it to the last minute to come up with a December service schedule? Having been part of planning…
Things I wish I knew before becoming a Designer
If you’ve come to this blog, welcome. And thanks for stopping by. As time goes on I tend to spend a few days, sometimes weeks, looking back on the year around September time. September is my birthday month and the start of the school year and it always felt like a reset time; and still…
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Promote your Church this Christmas
Ways to Promote on Social Media this Christmas Social Media is your biggest platform for promotion. Make sure you have a Facebook page & Instagram account. These are the main platforms. And if you want to push the boat out a bit, get a Twitter account too – most of your church congregation will connect…
Food is bringing us back together
As things slowly start to return to normal and businesses such as cafés, bistros, bars and restaurants return to full capacity soon, there might be the need to offer new, refreshed and vibrant printed menus, flyers or business cards to your new customers. It’s been my privilege over the years to design such items for…
Good Design is Good Business
Good Design is Good Business Are you a business in need of a professional graphic designer but would like to keep employment costs down? Hiring a freelance graphic designer could be the solution to your problem. WHAT DO YOU NEED? A rebrand Business Literature including Business Cards, Letterheads and Compliment slipsBusiness Advertising including Flyers, Folded…
Branding is a conversation
There are times we get caught up in crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s that we forget that branding is a conversation. A two way conversation. You tell me your story and I’ll tell you mine. We’ll have something in common and we’ll learn something too. When it comes to starting a business, organisation…
Rediscovering my passion. Repurposing my business.
My Passion: Peanut Designs in 2021! When 2021 hit I had high hopes and great plans for what I wanted to do with and through Peanut Designs…and beyond. I had never really committed a lot of time to promotion, defining the purpose of what peanut design is and who it is for, or launching products,…
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CREATED Magazine published.
In early 2021 I felt inspired to collate some blogs, thoughts, creativity from friends and colleagues and inspiring articles into a digital magazine for people to read completely free of charge. CREATED was born. The word “created” is a past tense verb meaning ‘to bring something into existence’. As a creative, I spend my whole…
Map Pixels is launching
Sometimes the bets things in life come through partnership and collaboration, or at least this is my experience. Over 10 years ago I met a guy in Huddersfield who has long been a great friend but also a cohort in business. Working together now for over a decade, I am pleased to announce that Vancano…
You are as unique as a snowflake
There are things in this life we can control, we steer life this way and that way, but then there are many, MANY things in life that we can’t control. The weather being one. In the UK this past 2 weeks, snow has invaded our land and many people have been having fun and making…