Noissue Creative Community

Noissue Creative Community

A global community of noissue Creatives bringing their designs to life through sustainable packaging and beyond!

This is a place for creative minds to join forces, empower one another, gain access to incredible resources, and share their work.

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 16/06/2022

🫐 Design inspo from Sara & Misc

Sara & Misc is a Dallas-based graphic designer and illustrator. For Sara, the most fulfilling part of being a designer is giving her clients the ability to make their dreams a reality. Helping small start-ups grow their brand into something beautiful, unique, and successful is such a rewarding experience!

Apart from working as a freelance graphic designer and offering a multitude of design services, Sara also runs her own online shop selling prints and stickers. Sara created her own branded noissue cards as part of her packaging collateral featuring a lovely summer-themed print along with her logo.

Custom thank you cards are the perfect addition to any branded packaging solution. Not only do they add on to the unboxing experience, but they also add in that personalized touch that helps connect the brand to their customers. 💌

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 12/06/2022

Design inspo from Lovingly Design Co. 🌿⁠

Feels Like a Wednesday is a vegan restaurant that invites you to experience one-of-a-kind dining to explore the best herbal, natural, and plant-based foods! They believe in providing nourishing meals at an affordable cost while remaining deliciously good for the body. ⁠

Serena of ovingly Design Co. crafted the branding for Feels Like a Wednesday or F.L.A.W after she stumbled upon the creative brief created by .agency x . The branding features a beautiful color palette consisting of green, blue and white hues accompanied by its trademark leaf illustration in the logo. ⁠

Serena brought her designs to life through the use of mockups, including our very own custom coaster scenes! Custom coasters are an amazing way to get your client's brand out there, and have their customers to interact with their restaurant, cafe, bar, and event.⁠

Interested in designing some personalized coasters for your clients? Head on over to noissue.co now to get started!

Timeline photos 09/06/2022

📩 Design inspo from Sara Kuzma

Sara Kuzma is a Scotland-based freelance graphic designer. Inspired by wild flora and the natural Scottish scenery, her whimsical illustrations add a magical touch to the stationery, patterns, and visual identities that she crafts.

Even though she creates her illustrations digitally, it doesn't remove her obsession with paper arts and crafts. All her works are crafted intentionally from the idea, through the sketch, and down to the final art.

Sara showcases her beautifully crafted logo through the use of our very own noissue embosser. Embossers are a surefire way to leave a lasting impression on your clients and customers. It adds a unique personalized touch to any paper or cardboard packaging featuring the brand's business logo or name.

Interested in getting your hands on your own custom embosser and leveling up your packaging to new heights? Head on over to noissue.co to get started!

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✨ Design inspo from Lovingly Design Co. ⁠

Serena started Lovingly Design Co. because of her passion for branding and graphic design. Lovingly Design Co. creates memorable and creative brand identities for small businesses that are truly crafted from the heart!⁠

Afore was part of Taylor Amy's weekly creative briefs. It is a maternity clothing brand that specializes in carrying clothing that expecting mothers can wear and feel even more beautiful when wearing them.⁠

For this project, Serena's goal was to craft a maternity clothing brand that felt dreamy and elegant. With that in mind, she also aimed to create a logo that was simple, yet can tell a story just by design. She showcased her designs on our very own noissue product mockups to help tie everything together and to bring the branding to life!

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🎨 Design inspo from Hay Design Co.

Haley. owner and designer of Hay Design Co., is a graphic designer, content creator, and now, small business owner!

She started Hay Design Co. right after college graduation in 2017, but only started introducing stickers and other products on Etsy in October of 2020. In addition to running her Etsy shop, social media pages, and freelancing, Haley also has a full-time job as a content creator.

We're absolutely obsessed with her stunning noissue custom box design featuring her logo and the fun pops of color! Custom boxes are an amazing way to create the ultimate unboxing experience and enhance overall customer satisfaction.

Interested in crafting custom box designs for your clients business? Head on over to noissue.co now to get started! 📦

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📣 PERK ALERT - noisuse Custom Smart Packaging PSDs!

Connect the digital and physical experience for your clients with noissue's QR-compatible mockups! With stunning use cases for digital experiences, this newest bundle of PSDs is sure to impress. Sitting alongside our fan favorite tissue and stickers, you'll find hang tags and stock paper tubes!

Apply to the Creative Community to gain access to these stunning, new PSDs + a plethora of our other incredible product mockups — link in bio! 🪄

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🍷 Design inspo from The Branded Academy⁠

Juiced is an inspired mock-wine brand focused on bringing a childlike freedom for “wine”-ing down! Whether one comes into the wine bar for a drink or chooses to take something to go, Juiced is here!⁠ The colorful branding heavily focuses on giving the feel of being playful, joyous, vibrant and at ease. ⁠

When setting up the brand's moodboard and palette, Melissa of The Branded Academy loved the idea of being able to create a playful environment. The logo features a playful, bubbled font to symbolize the lighthearted energy of Juiced. The addition of the abstract wine glass is to showcase that they aren't a healthy smoothie bar or the like.⁠

Our recent custom coaster mockups were the perfect playground for Juiced to feel fully realized! Mockups are an amazing way to bring one's passion projects to life - the different customizable options are endless! What's your favorite type of branding to put onto custom mockups?

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📣 Celebrate all month long with our special design showcase!⁠

For this month's , we're switching things up and instead asking you to post completed design projects in honor of your small biz clients. ⁠

Check out Pinky of Unwritten Digital's entry featuring the branding she created for Jen of Pacific Born. Jen founded Pacific Born to fulfill her passion for fashion while promoting self-care and self-love. Jen has always used fashion to raise her spirits and hopes that her newly released collections will uplift women and make them feel like a million bucks. She is committed to picking clothes that reflect positive emotions for women—romantic, fierce, and edgy.⁠

Fun fact: Jen stumbled upon Pinky through the Creative Community page on noissue's website and the rest was history! 🤩⁠

This special design showcase is running through Monday, May 30th, so make sure to get your entries in!⁠

How to Enter:⁠

1. Post your favorite packaging design created for a small biz client! Both photos and mockups are welcome.⁠

2. Via a swipe up or in bio, link out to the featured noissue product/s featured in your design showcase!⁠
Be sure to use your affiliate link if you have one! If you don't, apply via link in bio.⁠

3. Tag and + use , sharing what you love about that small business! Make sure you and your client are both following us.⁠

Post away and check back on Monday, May 30th as we'll be rewarding 3 lucky winners with free products and goodies! 👀⁠

🕒 Deadline is fast approaching, so make sure to send your entries in before it's too late!

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Creative Collaboration: Hey Hannah! x Palettes and Petals 🤝

Hannah Rhodes Bybee is an art director, graphic designer, laugher, lover, persistent optimist, and the founder of Atlanta-based design studio, Hey Hannah! With over 10 years of design experience including brand identity, marketing, editorial, illustration, signage and most recently motion graphics, Hannah embraces new projects and challenges with wide-eyed enthusiasm.

Hannah collaborated with longtime childhood friend, Selena Castro of Palettes and Petals to create the perfect branding to represent her company’s inspiring vision and mission. For her packaging, Selena expressed to Hannah her desire to have sustainable and eco-friendly resources, even if it meant adding a little extra spend. After doing some research, both found that noissue products checked off everything in their criteria—beautiful, design-friendly, and affordable!

Established in 2018, Palettes and Petals is a handmade earring and accessory company with a strong advocacy. Focusing on colorful art made to uplift and inspire, Palettes and Petals also donates $1 from each piece sold to ALS Research.

Read more about this beautiful collaboration via link in bio! 🌼

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🧼 Design inspo from Passion Swirls

Founded by Jia Min Boh, Passion Swirls is a multidisciplinary creative studio offering brand strategy, brand identity, packaging, website, and marketing solutions. They are huge believers in building their clients a meaningful brand that supports their lifestyle while they step into their purpose every day.

They collaborated with SYLI Soap Emporium for their brand refresh to create a simple, timeless, and powerful look for their rebrand. The thick & classic font with contrasting colors really brings out the strong voice and independence that is set within this brand. Everyone deserves to be beautiful and they can all start with SYLI. Watch their beautiful designs come to life with the use of our noissue packaging mockups!

SYLI Soap Emporium is a fuss-free beauty and lifestyle brand that empowers people to feel strong and beautiful. Passion Swirls went for a simple, timeless and powerful look to bring out the wellness brands' vision.

Mockups are an amazing way to visualize your designs and to really see the design magic unfold. Gain access to our vault of free product mockups and watch your designs come to life - apply for access via link in bio! ✨

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 12/05/2022

💙 inspo from Jade Agard Design

Jade is a brand and web designer at Jade Agard Design, based in Trinidad & Tobago. She started her design journey back in high school at 15 years old and has been building her business ever since. She was inspired by a lot of skincare brands on Pinterest, drawing a lot of creativity from the brand Yours and Saie.

In building out her March entry 'Welle', Jade wanted to find a more unique way of saying "skincare" so researched the phrase in different languages. The Japanese translation "sukin kea" struck the perfect note for Jade and was incorporated into her main logo. The brand features a high end and modern vibe setting forth longevity and a great stand up against their competitors.

Don't forget to check out our March Challenge Round-Up for more lovely entries - link in bio! 🤩

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 11/05/2022

👕 Design inspo from Henrietta Creative

Victoria-based Henrietta Creative is home to creative avenues such as graphic design, branding identity, illustration, Squarespace web design, social media management, and more! Their founder and senior designer Henrietta is very business savvy when it comes to all things entrepreneurial and is open to consultations when starting up her clients' businesses.

They created these amazing noissue custom hangtag and tissue designs for their sister business, Club H Collective. Club H Collective is an apparel brand specializing in luxe, effortless style. This sleek and minimalist design shines so brightly on our hangtags as a first impression for any customer.

Interested in bringing your designs to life with the use of mockups? Apply to the Creative Community now to gain access to a plethora of product mockups, design tools and more - link in bio! 🪄

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 06/05/2022

Creative Collaboration: Cove Design Studio x Ethereal Artistry 🤝

Alex Carter is the creative director of Wellington-based branding and communication studio, Cove Design Studio. They combine creativity, communication and strategy to produce soulful, refined and approachable designs. They are passionate about being part of people’s journeys in turning their businesses into brands that make an impact.

She collaborated with Roxanne and Natasha of Ethereal Artistry to turn their ideas into reality and build a beautiful, curated branding experience. Ethereal Artistry’s custom packaging features a full branding suite, courtesy of noissue products.

They thoughtfully wrap their paintings in their personalized tissue paper and stickers, with a custom stamp as signature on the back of their pieces. Their packaging also includes thank you card and a referral stamp for their customers. Once all is beautifully packed and wrapped up, they send their orders out in either a padded or recycled mailer from noissue.

At Ethereal Artistry, they create modern, abstract acrylic art. Their artworks explore the flow and blossoming of color and paint in a delicate and minimalistic manner.

Read more about their heavenly collab via link in bio! 🌻

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 05/05/2022

🐚 Design inspo from Design by the Sewn Seed

Caitlin of Design by the Sewn Seed is a self-taught illustrator and graphic designer situated on the coast of Western Australia. Her design journey began by just creating assets for herself in her other business. Once she noticed the rush of local small businesses inquiring who was behind all the designs, Caitlin decided to establish her own design studio, Design by the Sewn Seed.

She adores designing for other creatives and small business owners as she finds that there is so much passion and grit involved. Caitlin loves fine line illustration and anything floral. She is passionate about being able to really personalize a brand, tell a story, and bring out elements in a design that her clients hold close to their heart.

The branding created for Kelly at White Willow Photography was inspired by Kelly's love for the sea and flowers. White Willow Photography is currently based in South Australia, capturing families through thoughtful imagery.

The beautiful branding features illustrations of Kelly's favorite shells from her own personal collection and is matched with a custom color palette in addition to White Willow Photography's already established website font.

We're absolutely obsessed with the serene feel of the brand and just can't get enough! 🌊

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🕯️ inspo from Sara Kuzma 💐

Sara is a Polish digital artist and creative soul with a passion for creating botanical designs. Currently based in the wild and beautiful country of Scotland, her winning design challenge entry was inspired by her love of the country and its flora and fauna. She wanted to show the uniqueness of wild flowers and their amazing ability to grow anywhere.

In her art, Sara wanted to invoke the idea that our body is also similar to a plant - by properly giving it the care and love it needs, we too can bloom wonderfully. Congratulations on being our March BYOB winner!

Catch her winning design together with other stunning entries in our March Round-Up - link in bio! 🖥️

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👖 Design inspo from Louise Studios

Indigo is a 100% sustainable denim brand that specializes in blue denim apparel and was a brief created by Club Dilly Dally. It is a blue-jeans brand that prides itself on its blue hues and funky styles.

For this brand, Gemma of Louise Studios wanted to highlight its sustainability aspect by selecting an earthy color palette. The sage green and n**e tones match perfectly with the brand vision and feel. Steering away from the actual blue color of indigo, Gemma wanted to infuse a purple tone to the branding to tie things together with a twist.

Gemma selected a font, created by the talented Nicky Laatz, to give Indigo a more personal and handmade touch. She also added a stitch detail to the logos and other brand elements which further puts emphasis on the personal and handmade approach she was envisioning.

For better visualizations, Gemma made use of our noissue custom mockups showcasing the brand's packaging collateral to tie everything together. Personalized mailers and hangtags not only elevate one's packaging experience but can also be an added form of branded advertising for their business.

Interested in bringing your own designs to life? Apply to Creative Community to gain access to a plethora of beautiful product mockups and other design tools - link in bio! 🪄

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 26/04/2022

☕ Design inspo from Forever Ink Design ✨

Izzy of Forever Ink Design is a brand and graphic designer, based in South Wales, UK. She is strongly driven by being able to design powerful branding for strong, small businesses, which will level them up and create the ultimate brand vision.

Izzy collaborated with Brows Before Coffee to design a bespoke pattern to be used throughout their brand. By applying their logo variations with illustrations, Izzy crafted a unique brand pattern.

Brows Before Coffee is a Las Vegas-based permanent makeup studio and academy. They came to Izzy with the goal of crafting a modern and unique brand refresh to help them stand out in the beauty industry and stand the test of time.

Their custom noissue tissue showcases a sleek, monotone color palette paired with soft illustrative elements to create a perfect balance of that professional and personable brand identity. Izzy chose to create a beautiful print that features a script font and delicate line illustration style as an acknowledgment of Brows Before Coffee's artistic skill within her craft.

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🌺 Design inspo from DSR Branding

DSR Branding is an award-winning strategic branding and design firm, based in Brisbane, Australia. They specialize in rebrands and brand refresh projects, developing brands that people both love to buy from and are proud to work for. Their vision is to inspire people to love what their work represents. DSR exists to empower business owners and employees to tell their stories and create better businesses.

They collaborated with Tracey Vedelago of Sainta Franco in constructing their branding and custom packaging. The fashion-forward, online boutique brand was named after the French alpine town Saint-François-Longchamp, located near Val-d'Isère where Tracey and her husband got engaged. The flowers, printed on their branded noissue tissue, were inspired from the French Alps Flora — hand-drawn by their French designer, Oriane Rigard-Cerison.

Chic packaging is the finishing touch on any order!

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 18/04/2022

🤝 A delicious Passion Project - Mayflour by Karla Pámanes!

Karla is Famington-based award-winning designer, branding expert, and mentor. She mostly works with new brands helping them craft a visual identity that tells the story of their brand by creating an unforgettable experience for their customers through beautiful and strategic design.

When we launched our first ever Build Your Own Brand , Karla jumped at the opportunity to create Mayflour, an imagined Boston-based artisanal cupcakery. She adores working with food brands and just knew Mayflour would be the best fit for the sweets/dessert brand that the challenge had set.

Karla absolutely loves the creative freedom that goes into designing passion projects. Her adoration of color and type keeps things playful and fresh while she’s unleashing her creativity through brand identities.

Find out more about her design process and how Mayflour came to life via link in bio! 🧁

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🕑 The clock is ticking! Have y'all submitted your entries yet?⁠

This month's super special is in partnership with our friends at Goodtype and it's all about YOU! Develop and showcase your own personal branding with the use of our noissue mock-ups combined with inspiration from the amazing Goodtype community to let the world know what your business is all about.⁠

2 winners will be chosen to each receive a $250 noissue voucher and free access to Goodtype's Tip Top Type course! These top two designers will also be featured in our Design Challenge Roundup on the Wrap!⁠

How to join:⁠
🗣 Download your favorite tissue mock-up from the noissue PSD Vault (apply for access via our bio if you haven't yet!)⁠
🗣 Design your own personal branding and bring it to life on noissue PSDs⁠
🗣 Share your beautiful branding on Instagram by April 22nd. Don't forget to include and & tag both and in your entry!⁠

🎥 As a special bonus, share a design process video along with your entry in your feed! Each video shared will be considered for a feature in our monthly design challenge round up and a reshare on our TikTok page!⁠

⚡️PS - Everyone's a winner! ALL participants will be considered for a monthly raffle to receive a free noissue product of their choice!⁠

We're also tracking participation month over month: if you submit entries to 5 different design challenges, we'll gift you 250 custom stickers! (So keep those entries coming! 👀)

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🧖‍♀️ inspiration from FS Crealicious

Napp is a fun skincare brand created by Fatou of FS Crealicious for March's BYOB: Self-care edition challenge, which made it all the way to the top 2! The name Napp is a play on the word 'nap' and is intended as a reminder to slow down and relax. This imagined brand features a beautiful yellow and orange color palette, reminiscent of a warm, sunny day.

Fatou's mission is to intentionally create visual identities, websites, and social media content that will help her clients attract the customers of their dreams and make their business shine.

What's your favorite form of self-care? ☀️

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 11/04/2022

🌸 Design inspo from Studio NOOR ANISA

Meet Maylene, the brand strategist and creative designer at Studio NOOR ANISA. She is on a mission to help ambitious Muslim businesses reach the top through owning compelling brands that stand out, so they too can have the power and confidence to create positive change for themselves and others.

This project was a rebrand for a talented baker of luxury decorated cookies. The logo came about because it had been quite a journey before Shazia, owner of Simply Blossom, started this business, and once she found her love in it she felt like she had "simply blossomed",- hence, the transformation of flowers (her original business) to butterflies being released suggests that. As with all of Mayelene's projects, she loves looking at an interior space to get a feel of the vibes the entire brand experience would have. The Peggy Porschen café storefront had also a big part to play in how the design ended up looking!

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Creative Collaboration: Blades Creative x Wildflower Tea & Apothecary 🤝⁠⁠⁠⁠

Gabrielle Blades is the owner and lead designer behind Austin-based Blades Creative. The small-but-mighty team behind Blades Creative serves as the advocate and designer for creative, lifestyle, and wellness brands, bringing their purpose and potential out into the world. They offer intuitive and intentional branding, design, and packaging options for businesses of any size.

Gabrielle collaborated with Hillary of Wildflower to help bring their curated packaging experience to fruition. Chattanooga-based Wildflower Tea & Apothecary was created to be a unique place to escape and a space of calm and respite. They formulate and hand blend all their small batch tea and herbal blends with that overall intention in mind. Their product and their space aim to truly nourish, support and delight the body, mind, and spirit.

Their custom noissue eco-friendly tissue paper design is based on the hexagonal, light blue tiles on Wildflower’s tea shop floor. The vintage tiles are especially close to Hillary’s heart and are one of the most distinguishable characteristics of her shop. They also decided to match it with the same blue colors from the label to bring everything together.

Find out more about this heartwarming collab via link in bio! 🍵

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🌈 Design inspo from Sam Jayne Design

Sam Jayne Design is a fun, creative design studio offering contemporary, eye catching design for other creative businesses who want to stand out from the crowd. Sam's various services include logo design, brand identity packages, pattern design, social media graphics and bespoke design. She has been working in the design industry for over 7 years and has a background in greetings cards, gift packaging, stationery, branding design, seamless pattern design, social media content and gifting.

This project is a gorgeous collaboration between Sam and WashiGang for their rebranding and newly designed packaging collaterals. They created these fun and vibrant designs printed on noissue's very own eco-friendly tissue and tape. WashiGang is an Australia-based online stationery store specializing in planners, bullet journals and all the fun extras such as cute stickers, washi tapes & pens.

Looking to create some custom and sustainable packaging for you and your clients? Head on over to noissue.co to get started! 💝

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🌊 A Day in The Life of New Hampshire-based Trailblazers, Current Design Studio!

Olivia Austin founded Current Design Studio on the idea that their passions can be their life's work, leading outside-of-the-box is the way to make an impact, and unlocking your creativity holds the answers you're searching for. The most successful current brands are those that have stand-out visuals and online homes that align, connect, and convert in an engaging way that sets the standard for exceptional design.

They help wellness and healthy lifestyle businesses illuminate their impact through mindful design, storytelling, and creative strategy. They craft intentional brands that align, connect and convert for trailblazers in the coaching, wellness, and luxury travel space.

Read on more to have a glimpse of “A Day in the Life” of Current Design Studio via the link in our bio! ⁠✨

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📣 PERK ALERT!

Liven up your client's branding experience with noissue's new custom coaster mockups! Personalized coasters are the perfect addition to any hospitality event or gathering. Get started with custom logo coasters to complement your client's branded packaging and include them as extra advertising for their business. ☀️

Get access to these fresh, new PSDs by applying to the Creative Community now — link in bio!

Photos from Noissue Creative Community's post 28/03/2022

👌 inspo from Oh! Weetie

Oh! Weetie, founded by Tamara Anne Weetman, is a South Africa-based design and illustration agency. Tamara loves all things design but has a specific passion for fun and conceptual branding. Her main design inspirations are Morag Myerscough and Camille Walala because of their bold colors and beautiful use of patterns and installations.

Her March entry showcases the branding for We Are Okay, an imagined monthly subscription box. It is a self-care package that's made to be shared with your bestie or partner. Each monthly box features a variety of goodies and may include champagne, face mask, candles, and vegan snacks!

With the help of noissue mockups, she was able to truly bring the project to life with beautiful scenes and visualizations. Product mockups are an excellent tool to help visualize what the end product of the designs would look like.

Interested in bringing your designs to life with mockups? Apply via link in bio for access! 🪄

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Creative Collaboration: Abbie Adams Studio x Jenna Vanden Brink Ceramics 🤝⁠⁠⁠⁠

Abbie Adams is a freelance designer and artist who works with a variety of traditional media including print, painting and visual design. She often works in sets and collections, creating intricate, hand-drawn images that show her fascination with line, repetition and grouping similar objects.

Abbie collaborated with Jenna Vanden Brink Ceramics in taking their branding experience to the next level through creating print collateral and custom packaging. Pittsburgh-based Jenna Vanden Brink Ceramics specializes in handcrafted functional wares offering functional ceramic wares and jewelry.

Their noissue tissue and tape features a cream background with warm red lines to incorporate the colors of both of Jenna’s porcelain and terracotta clays. Their custom eco-friendly stickers also feature Jenna’s earthenware line pottery illustrations that helps tie everything together.

Find out more about this beautiful collab via link in bio! 🫖

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🎨 Design inspo from Katrin Lange Design

Katrin is an Edinburgh-based graphic designer. She is passionate about social media, fashion, hand lettering, finding perfect avocados, video game characters, and, most importantly, beautiful design – which is why she is always trying to bring a little bit of herself to every project that goes through her hands.

She took part in Taylor Amy's challenge in creating the branding for Mona Leesa, a young artist in search of a stellar new branding for her upcoming online shop. Her custom noissue tape features a retro-type font paired with the classic look of the oil paintings Katrin envisioned Mona Leesa to create. The muted tones paired with the florals help tie everything together and are the perfect balance between modern and timeless pieces.