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Client: Bacio Club Bali
Project Type: Under Contract Project
Media: Print Media (Artpaper)
Category: Print Design – Invitation + CD Package
Website: http://bacioclub.com

Details…
Artwork for Bacio 3rd Anniversary. This includes Invitation and CD pack. The theme was obvious: Circus.

With the fresh New Year ’10 spirit, we are proud to announce the upcoming inspirations all over the globe. We call it, Frespiration! We want these collections to be share to other creative people and inspire them from art point of view. Everyone who wants to join us is welcome, all of the artwork collections are under the category of Graphic Design, i.e. illustration, typography, print design, stationary set, advertising, web design, etc. We are also still debating whether we should include Photography inside the collection. If you are interested to join on our very 1st edition, please click here for more info. Comments, critiques, and advise are welcome to make this design collection the best one around.

Every designers are taught to think about the concept first before creating any designs. Although some designers get inspired for the concept along when creating the design itself. The point is, you always need a concept to support your design and build it at the same time. As a designer, I try my best to apply a strong concept behind my designs, either for my clients, contests, or even for my personal artwork. But to judge or review my own artwork, I would say they’re great. This is why I wish I could share my concept and get some feedback about them from other designers.

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For most Print Graphic Designer, design and create a website would be a challenging task to do. As much as we enjoy ourselves working on the artwork and layout for it, those principles on print designs won’t aesthetically pleasing as it is for the print designs. As a print graphic designer, it was quite confusing for me when I was being critiqued by my client for the web page I did for his company. I found that even though he isn’t a designer, he knows the real function of the web page and the customer’s vision flow when they are browsing the web. I searched more resources about them. And yes, even though it’s basically part of graphic design, web design has its own rules. From the illustration, color scheme, and typography, it’s all what we’ve been familiar with in print design, but in web design, pay more attention to the effects (ie. gradients or shadows) as well.

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