STREET FOOD – LOGO DESIGN

JEYDA’S TURKISH KITCHEN

There are a few stages to designing a logo, but development is one of my favourites. I enjoy harnessing potential and exciting the client with visuals for their company. This project is especially exciting as it is for my sister’s incredible street food business “Jeyda’s Turkish Kitchen”.

To begin establishing this food brand, we discussed business direction and company ambition; understanding the business aims, meant we could develop a timeless logo that would support the street food brand, while complimenting the business’ expansion to deli cafes.

To get started we explored different aesthetics and began to narrow down what graphics, themes, colours would maximise potential. I produced a few mood boards to kick off and soon we had the above board to begin finalising.

PACKAGING DESIGN

Once the logo was underway, we progressed to packaging design. We explored an array of options considering any potential issues concerning the food, portability, freshness as well as budget.

Once we had this in mind, I was enabled to cultivate appropriate development to guide the designs; I looked to a range of Turkish and middle eastern artworks, filtering through reoccurring elements such as pattern, stars and organic mandala design. I felt the classic eye design could be referenced in the sense of adding an iris to stars. This would nod at a range of influences while developing something subtle.

INGREDIENTS FOR A TASTY PATTERN

During this progress, I furthered exploration in hand with the chef side, focusing on food inspiration. To respond, I generated some key ingredients used in Jeyda’s cuisines e.g. coriander, olives, lemons, tomato. Though the progress was good, it wasn’t innovative enough for a street food brand. With this in mind, I worked on finalising something with more bite.

FINAL DESIGNS

The final designs are minimal and simplistic with a strong foodie edge, we developed a final logo in two formats as displayed below. I chose a bold colour pallet, this was inspired by the bright, mosaic Turkish lamps/lanterns, they are mesmerising and eye catching which is exactly the impact I wanted to draw on.

PACKAGING: BOXES, TUBS, BAGS, WRAPPING PAPER

All designs are for different applications; I made sure to reverse the logo so it could be used for stamps and for any coloured packaging while keeping the original for stickers and print. The designs are expandable and transferable to aid the business’ development. It has been great working with Jeyda, I am excited to be her affiliated designer!

Feb 7, 2023Jun 2, 2023

WELLBEING WALKS PROJECT

This project has progressed immensely over the last few weeks. I have spent a lot of time evolving the design style and producing a huge body of work to propel exploration. To manage my work, I divided the project into three design challenges: cover, map and page design. I’ve been bouncing between these, referencing my planning, colour pallets and visual boards.

I discussed in-depth details with the Thrive Manchester program directors in advance; noted points on how the booklet would fold and read e.g., landmark symbols, legend, route colours, etc. The design side has been freeing, generating my inspired visions while implementing suggestions and preferences from directors, it has been a very smooth collaboration.

FINALISING THE WINNING DESIGN

I have updated project managers/partners during design development. Once we were happy with a cover, I played with design potential by introducing alternative colours, clothing and fonts. I then moved onto furthering depth and detail, adding sun beams, rivers, drawing on outdoors, nature and wellbeing. I wanted the visuals and colours for the map and pages to extend through each aspect of the booklet; the fun challenge was finding the best balance of colours and composition. Producing this project using Adobe Illustrator provided many solutions and eased development exploration e.g., ability to freehand vector visuals directly onto art boards, easily alter pantones/pallets, introduce temporary artboards for comparrision. This in hand with Adobe Photoshop has made my design approach much more professional and stress free.

PROTOTYPE PREVIEW

Stay tuned for updates on map and page development!

Jan 12, 2023Jan 13, 2023

Sunbed Balcony Print

4×6 print (Frame not included)

£8.99

Sunbed Balcony Print

4×6 print (Frame not included)

£8.99

Jan 11, 2023Jan 11, 2023

Illustrator Landscapes

Recently, I’ve become obsessed with Adobe Illustrator, overflowing with ideas to begin expanding my practice and abilities using the software. I began looking to my travel photography as a muse, learning to simplify tone, shape and light through vector shapes. To continue exploring different styles and affects, I have been using photoshop alongside, applying different layer styles and tools to transform basic holiday photo’s into fun artsy prints.

I’m finding these recreations to be much cleaner and dynamic than the original photo, so I am pleased I have found a way to use them within my work. See the original to digital comparrisons below.

AMSTERDAM

TENERIFE

LIGHTING

Since looking to my photography for inspiration, I felt it would be practical to further the challenges by introducing different subjects, I found light is an essential contributor within design, therefore I focused on ways to exercise this and generate the illusion of light. I have already noticed the impact of this practice, as I work on my commissions I’m drawn to finding the light sources, pulling through beams and highlights. I’ll continue to focus on the practice of light, travel photos and also seasons, nature, and city life.

May 28, 2022

Candle Making

Last Winter 2021, Dom and I became obsessed with candles and how to make them. He surprised me and went all out on collecting the gear: kilo of wax chips, scents, colours, moulds, jars and wicks. He had also sacrificed a whole space in one of our cupboards to accommodate, so I knew this would mean business. On a snowy day it felt perfect to stay in and ruin the kitchen! So we did just that.

I use to love candle making, I’d made them previously to raise money for exhibitions and events, though I had never done them professionally. We watched a few tutorials and read up on the art of candle making, but the quality of results definitely comes down to experience. There were a couple of problems to start out, such as keeping the candle lit and releasing the scent, but after trial and error, we found it was mostly down to patience. We were too eager to light the candles, usually moving them while setting and lighting them within a few hours of making them, so avoiding these tempting pokes and paying attention to temperatures have really improved the results.

Since it was getting towards Christmas, we thought we could them into gifts, so we went mad collecting old jars to make as many as possible. They went down a treat and we are thinking we may do this as a tradition.