MY NEW BUSINESS CARDS

Wow, I haven't posted anything in close to a month...I've been so busy, though, I've barely had time to get any sleep, let alone write on my blog. I'm spreading myself way too thin with work, the MBA, various art projects, dance classes, and all those little errands that you have to do when you live alone, like get food or clean the house :) Anyway, the end of this quite terrible term in school is close to its end, so hopefully I'll be able to catch up on all the stuff I want to blog about. Oh, and just to whine a little - I have an exam on my birthday...blah.

In between all the late nights spent working or writing papers, I somehow managed to print my new business cards, which I'm quite fond of. They are blue, unlike my current orange and green color scheme, and I think I might freshen up the design of my blog as well...we'll see.

So this is what I got printed - they are on 300 g paper with matte laminate, and they look very cool.

Here are my other color schemes and designs for the back of the card. I'll print the orange and the green at some point, too, but I'm still not sure when.

FURNITURE ILLUSTRATIONS

The advertising agency I work for, CAS, is in charge of designing and printing the new catalogue of the Bulgarian furniture factory Riko Style. Traditionally, the catalogue features an illustration of a certain piece of furniture on the cover and on each of the title pages. This year, I was the one doing the illustrations. You can see some of my drawings below and some of the actual pages where the drawings were featured.


The illustrations were done on Wacom Cintiq 21ux. Drawing on this tablet is so cool!



Check out CAS's website for more of our projects: www.casbg.com

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COOL T-SHIRTS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

So it's 2012! Happy New Year to all of you who read my blog! I have tons of cool stuff I've been meaning to post, but it seems like the new year will be very, very busy! Still, here is the first thing, which is a project I finished around the holidays: t-shirts for photographers!
As you might already know, I really like graphic tees, and I am also quite the photography enthusiast! Last year I made a "Photo Babe" t-shirt for myself, which I quite like, and this year I made a male version of this t-shirt. I was thinking I would do a "Photo Dude" shirt, but by popular request I ended up making a "Photo Babe Hunter" t-shirt :)
Anyway, here it is below! Enjoy our nerdiness :)

LOGO & T-SHIRT FOR LILLY

My friend Lilly and I have known each other since kindergarten. We've stayed close through good and bad times, and through years when we were on different continents. We've given each other countless presents, of course, so I was racking my brains as to what to get her for Christmas this year. And then it hit me - I work in an ad agency, and I like to dip my toes in various graphic design projects, so what could be more perfect than something custom made with a print design of my own making!? So I sat down and made her a personal logo, which I had stamped on a red shirt afterwards. I really like the outcome, and I do hope that she wears it with pleasure.
Check it out below:

HI-FI EXPO 2011 PHOTOS

This year was the second HI-FI EXPO Sofia, a trade show for high-end audio and video equipment (check out the website for more info www.hifiexpo.bg). Since we barely had any photos from last year's show due to lack of time and well-prepared photographers (seriously, how would you feel if you got a bunch of totally dark and grainy photos?!), this year we decided that we will be taking care of the photos ourselves. My goal was to take photos of all four days of the expo, so that we could post them on the facebook page of the expo and the website. I am not saying that I am the best of photographers either, but I tried to do my best, and I had lots of fun photographing everything! You can see all the photos here, but I have selected a few of my favorite ones to show you here on my blog. Of course some of my favorite photos are of little details in the equipment that I found interesting :) I guess I like shooting little details :)

COMPANY LOGO: ЕТ ШАНС

In the summer I had the chance to design a logo for a company, ЕТ Шанс (or Chance Ltd.), that is a construction products retailer. The company wanted a logo in one color that they can use on the signs outside of their shop, so I gave them some options that were more abstract and an option with a hand giving a thumbs up (because of the name of the company - "chance").

Here are some of the abstract designs:


And here is the design with the hand giving a thumbs up, which is actually the one they ended up choosing.


I actually really enjoy designing logos. I hope that I have more chances to do that in the future.

TWO FALL PORTRAITS

I just wanted to share these two lovely portraits that Pavel took of me a few weeks ago in the park - I really love the fall colors. They are so beautiful to photograph.