Info Cards and Visitor's Card

Here are two cards I created for my church, Life with Life Church. One is a take-home card talking about the church and the other is a card to be filled out and returned to our reception ministry. Below are the samples :)

Church Identification Project

Here are a few projects I've worked on recently with a friend of mine who is also a designer, Carol Dos Santos. We wanted to give the church a more modern look through the logo, business card and weekly bulletins. Here's a sample of our work:

Logo:

 

Business Card:

Banner:

Weekly Bulletin:

AGF Logo

Brooke Fraser's "Albertine" CD Redesign

Sunflower

Playing with Textures

Amazing how texturizing something can change that thing ENTIRELY!
I <3 Photoshop

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Panda Obsession

Lately it seems that the "Panda" has made it's way into the fashion scene as I seem to be finding something with a Panda everywhere I go.

Here are a few images I've found as well as a few that have been sent over to me.
I'll be posting some more up as I come across them :)

Item: Tshirt

Item: Book

Item: Balloon

Item: Travel Pillow

Item: Necklace

Item: Key Cap (I couldn't resist! I had to buy this one)

Item: Travel Pillow (yes, another one!)

Item: Book bag

Item: Coffee Mug (Cute!!!)

Item: Pez 

E.T. Poster Illustration

This is an illustrated version of E.T.'s movie poster made with a limit of 5 colors. 

Time consuming... but pretty fun to make :)! 

Simplicity

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

RTV News

This logo was designed for Ronald Reagan Senior High School's 

TV Production class :)

Jon Foreman - Pop Art

Decided to have a little fun on this one... This is a piece of art I made from a photograph of Jon Foreman based on Andy Warhol's style of Pop Art. 

Why Jon Foreman? Well, Jon Foreman's music is by far one of my favorites, whether he's singing solo or with Switchfoot, his music truly makes me feel closer to God. 

Favorite song: Your love is strong

*** The photograph was found on http://www.justpressplay.net/articles/6570-a-new-stance-in-the-opposite-direction-a-conversation-with-jon-foreman-of-switchfoot-.html

Psalm 4:8

Picture was taken by an artist found on DeviantArt. Unfortunately I cannot find her to give her credit for the photograph of the girl that I cropped to use for my artwork.

Page Layout Design - Life with Life Church's Youth Camp Booklet

It's been a long time since I've posted my latest work here because I was extremely caught up in my last assignment, which I totally loved doing. 

Those of you that know me a little more, know that my favorite element of Graphic Design is page layout, so for me, building the booklet for the Life with Life's Youth camp is one of the projects I enjoy most. Every year, me and Poliana Guimarães (Mel), get together to either photograph or compile photos to be used, and then we build the booklet for this amazing event the church has. This year, I think we did a great job! Below are most of the pages that were done for the booklet.

 

 

Photo Restoration

I'm currently working on a photo restoration project for my mother & her brother and sisters. Along the years the pictures got seriously destroyed, and I took on the challenge of trying to fix them up.

Below is a sample of the work:

 (the person in the photograph is my Aunt Solange around the late 1960's, early 1970's)

BEFORE

AFTER

AdorARTE

Here is another one of my portfolio pieces. This was an ad I made for a Performing Arts conference that was going to take place at my church for the dance, theater, media and band ministries.

I gotta admit, I had quite a bit of fun making it, hehehe

Joi's Famous Microwaved "Brigadeiro"... YUMMM!!!!

There are only a few things my husband, Joi, is good at in regards to cooking. One is making red meat (in any way... on the grill or cooking it), and the other is brigadeiro. I'm not a big fan of brigadeiro, for some reason I find it way too sweet (I know, go figure...), but his brigadeiro is one that I can never turn down!

So what is a brigadeiro you might ask? It's a typical Brazilian sweet that resembles a chocolate truffle.

Here's the recipe:

• 2 cans of condensed milk
• 8 tablespoons of sweetened Chocolate Powder (ex: Nesquik or Nescau)

Preparation:

1. Mix ingredients in a big glass bowl very well until you see that the ingredients are uniform
2. Microwave for 4 minutes, and then stir well
3. Microwave it again, but keep an eye on it because it will begin to rise up, and before it overflows you need to take it out of the microwave, stir, and then put it back in the microwave. You will repeat this process until it stops overflowing by itself. (Approximately 6 minutes)
4. Once you finish step 3, stir it once again, let it cool for 30 minutes, and then refrigerate for another 30 minutes, and voila! Enjoy! (***You can eat it straight from the bowl or you can roll them up in round spheres and cover with chocolate flavored sprinkles)

The Magical Kiss

Today, for some reason, I started thinking back to the first graphic design class I've ever taken.  I started to remember some of the things Professor Madden taught me and my husband (who at that time was just my friend), because the things he taught me are basically the foundation of all my designs (after Jesus, hehehe). The other day I took on the hardest project I've ever had to take on. Originally I thought this would be BY FAR the easiest project EVER, it was the one project I thought would actually be the quickest and easiest: design my very own logo. I think I had a "brain glitch", or as my friends like to call it, a "brain fart" during this moment of my life (the last two weeks), because I would design about 10 different logos, and nothing seemed to be "just right". There were too many elements, yet I loved each element too much to remove one of them.

My husband, who I believe was pretty much fed up with me wasting days in front of the computer with no end in sight, turned to me and said: "Babe, K.I.S.S. Keep that in mind." I thought to myself, "KISS, what the heck is he talking about? Is he talking about the band? Does he want a kiss? What?" So I asked him, "What?!", and then he said the most magical, caring & loving words a woman could ever hope to hear from her husband:

"KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID".

As I glared at him from across the room, trying to sort out in my mind what just happened, and trying to figure out whether he had wished a death sentence upon himself by calling me stupid, or if he was seriously trying to help, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and asked him to elaborate on what he just said. Then he reminded me that was the motto that Professor Madden made us live by while taking his class. Whenever you couldn't get the design right, when you couldn't figure out the color or the font, or anything for that matter, remember K.I.S.S.: Keep it Simple Stupid.

I finished my logo that same night.

Thank you, Joi :)!

Wedding Shower Invitation

This is one of the invitations I've made, this specific one was for my Wedding Shower. 

The Panda Designs provides just about anything that you may need designed, 

from invitations to office stationary, and much more. 

Contact me for any pricing requests you may have :) - ThePandaDesigns@gmail.com

Stamp Set

Launch of the blog!

After many, many months of saying I would start a blog, it's finally happened!

I will be posting up most of my Graphic Design work here... among other things

"The Pandas Designs" blog has officially been launched, enjoy!