Experimental Lockdown Remote Project

Designing a promotional leaflet for BridgeCare

BridgeCare is a local organisation that looks after the well-being of older people and their carers in Bath. It was founded and is still partially run by people from the church I used to go to.

Recently they have asked me to design some promotional material for them - which I'm really pleased and privileged to do.

This is right in core business, since I have been involved in the not-for-profit and charity sector for most of my working life, and have several other similar organisations that i help.

This first project is about about day care services, but I have also got to write a style manual for all the outgoing communications. Later there's some more brochures, photography and a website. You can see the current website here by clicking the screenshot.

First job is to find some suitable pictures for illustrations. I got them to list the activities they do and hopefully I'll be able to illustrate most if not all. As they have a small budget, in most cases I'll be looking to Creative Commons for royalty-free imagery where possible. Although I fancy getting some good pix myself for the beetle drive.

Clever Colourful Coffee House

So, I saw this at a coffee shop/bar in Weymouth recently. I thought this was a very clever way of having a menu and a guide to various drinks that were available.

I also thought that the illustrations of how the coffee was made were informative and clever. Too bad they only did two that I could see.

Here's the tea menu, coloured to show how you should expect your tea - excellent for pointing out what you wanted as well - given that Weymouth is a cross-channel port and possibly the arrivals' english is as bad as my attempts at their language.

This is the coffee menu - note two shot as standard and fine drink it was as well.

You can see smaller versions of the cup diagrams on it; but I must admit I have no idea why the Chocolate one is a bit bigger. The bar staff didn't know either.