Just the weather for Ice Creams

Check out my new ice cream designs for Papercraft Inspirations. Everything you need to create some fun greetings cards which you can download for free here. Enjoy in the sunshine x






Robots for Papercraft Inspirations

This is my latest commission for Papercraft Inspirations issue 114 - It's a free printable robot kit for card making - you can download the patterned papers, robots and typography here.



Red

Bristol in Red by Naomi Designs
This illustration is on display at the Tabacco Factory from 5th - 13th May as part of an exhibition with Drawn in Bristol and other illustrator's called Red for The Red Cross fundraising week. You can find out more info. here

New business card designs

I have just finished designing these little business cards for my friend Emma to help her on her way with her new flower business Ladybelle Flowers. Yay! Hope you like them. 

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Lately I have been...

...Drawing buildings lots of them 26 in total - thanks to The Architecture Centre who commissioned me to illustrate the buildings in The Bristol Opening Doors 2013 trail. I absolutely loved being involved in the project - drawing buildings is one of my favourite things to do, along with drinking tea and eating cake (both of which I did whilst illustrating all of the buildings). There are 22 buildings involved in the trail and you can download a walking trail leaflet here and the free app here. I hope you enjoy the buildings and of course the trail, thanks to the Architecture Centre for such a great opportunity I loved it. Below are all the buildings and the trail leaflet enjoy.
Bristol buildings - Naomi designs
Bristol Opening Doors Walking Trail Leaflet
Illustrations Naomi Designs
Design Ralph Media


Lets go on an adventure

I am being really positive that spring is finally going to appear and lead to a really amazing summer of camping, swimming, riding, bbq's and of course cider in the sun - here are a few inspiration pieces I created a while ago to help with some positivity - we will have a good summer!





Wedding invites


I'm so pleased I was given the oportunity to design these wedding invites for my good friends James and Nadine's upcoming spring wedding - just waiting for my invite through the post any day now! Fingers crossed tee hee

Valentine Papers


Check out my new Valentine papers for Papercraft Inspirations you can download them here


Below are my 2 favourites - I would love to know what you think







Christmas papers

These are some papers I have designed for Papercraft Inspirations - you can buy the magazine in the shops or check out The Making Spot which has loads of amazing ideas and designs. You can also download lots of lovely papers. I really enjoyed making the Christmas papers and I hope you enjoy viewing them or using them for your christmas card making. 

Papercraft Inspirations - you can buy in most papershops and WHSmiths now - great for getting some ideas for christmas



These are my favourite designs

Drawn in Bristol calender

Naomi Designs illustration -
for the Drawn in Bristol 2013 Calender
Drawn in Bristol calender - Printing process
LAUNCH NIGHT: 6th September, 6-8pm
The Glass Room, Colston Hall Foyer, BS1 5AR
with live music from NASRUDIN (see below)

Twelve members of local illustration collective Drawn in Bristol collaborate to create a unique calendar celebrating all things Bristol.

 OPEN NIGHT SPECIAL OFFER: £25 for the whole calendar!

 Bristol based illustrators Alexia Tucker, Ben Goodman, Bethan Buss, Carys Ink, Chris Dickason, Dave Bain, Katy Christianson, Martha Ford, Naomi Hocking, Paul Roberts, Sarah Barnes and Slumber have each chosen to reproduce an iconic place in the city, including Christmas Steps, North Street, Brunel's ss Great Britain and the Bristol to Bath Cycle Path, to name a few.

 Using a specially selected colour palette the resulting artwork will be handprinted as two-colour screen-prints and presented as framed, signed limited editions in this new exhibition at Colston Hall in September. All the original designs will also be screen-printed onto high quality paper stock and collated together to form a special calendar for 2013.

LAUNCH NIGHT with LIVE MUSIC:
NASRUDIN
Nasrudin is a new group featuring a line up of master percussionist Amadou Diagne and flautist Marick Baxter, from Inu, Pete Gibbs and Tim Petherick, the double bass and guitar players from the Mandibles, and the prolific Beth Porter on cello (who is now full time in Eliza Carthy’s band). Nasrudin’s music is a mixture of music from all over Europe including Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Klezmer and Gypsy tunes.

Exhibition open to the public daily from Friday 7 - Saturday 29 September

The Glass Room is open from Monday to Friday 8am - 11pm and Saturday 9am-10pm and on Sundays when a concert is scheduled (in quieter times space may close early).

 All text and images taken from Drawn in Bristol Blog and facebook page (apart from my illustration for the calender)




Doodlings

These are a few rough sketches for a new illustration to be used in a Calender - I will post the finished article once the calender is finished.

'Rough sketches of Park St and Will Building - Bristol'
Naomi Designs