Attention Creatives, Business People and Everyone Inbetween!

Are you a designer, artist, photographer, or musician?

     Do you have a big job that you need an extra pair of hands to help out with?
     Do you feel like a change?
     Would you like to hand over some of your photo editing to someone else?
     Need your name to stand out in the busy social media craze of today?
     Any design ideas that you wish you could just click your fingers & have them on your screen?


Are you a business owner, entrepreneur, or business manager?

     Do you need to update your branding?
     Do you feel like you need to be more current?
     Don't even have a logo or business cards?
     Need someone to 'just make that look good'?
     Do you have the advertising ideas but just lack the skill of putting it all together?


You'll be glad you dropped by then!  Creative brains, designs galore, fast turn around times!

Whatever you need for your business or yourself.

Contact me now, and we can discuss a great quote.

Living in the Bay.

This is the greatest home I could imagine.

Jervis Bay sports the worlds whitest sands, and beautiful blue oceans. Summer is well behind us now & the cold winter is definitely on it's way, but that beauty doesn't go away, it just gets better!

There aren't so many jobs, very little public transport. But who cares when you have a chance to look at this every day?!

Head over to this link if you'd like your own little slice of paradise.

North Tide Necklaces

Check out North Tide on Etsy.

Affordable and unique Jewellery.

I have something to tell you...

I'm going to go a bit off topic today. Not too far though so keep reading!

If you haven't heard already, Dion & I have recently been approved for a new little rental property all to ourselves. Which is really exciting & we're both super happy to be able to have a place that we can call our own.

The problem however, lies with the fact that we will now both be paying rent, electricity, food, petrol, car registration & just general living expenses. "So what?" you may say, "Everybody does it right?" Yep, well, the thing is I've got a bit of a thing with a button. Most of them look something like this...

People, Places & Happy Faces

Photos beautifully captured By Bone St. Creative

New Beginnings

It was back to school last week for me. I started an online class on Web Design & Development.

I'm not getting a huge amount of work at the moment, and emailing around to all different companies wasn't quite working. So the next step was to boost the brain, get educated to get more jobs. Treehouse is ridiculous. So great. I'm learning so much and improving my skills by just watching videos all day, pretty innovative way to learn.

I'm always following design trends online & looking out for what's new in the world of creating wonderful things. I feel like it makes me a better designer & I'm better equipped to tackle each individual job that a client throws at me. You also obviously have to do a fair bit of research to get into the mind & company of a client, so in-depth research for each new job is also critical. And it sometimes changes your creative path from your initial ones.

You should never stop learning whether it be a hobby, something to do with your job, actually going back to school or university or learning all those crazy statistics to pass for your full license. Like Nan always says, "Use it or loose it!"

A Whole Year!

Oops. Look at that.

Well I guess you could say time flies when you're having fun!

It's been a whole year since I posted last, and what a year it has been. I moved to Batemans Bay for a job, had a cute little apartment & a great view. But hey, that didn't work out at all. So after 6 months I moved back home! Got a new job, had lots of adventures, started sub-contracting and working from home, Christmas came along, then New Year, reached the one year milestone with some spunk who decided I was worth hanging around for a while (was that embarrassing, Dion?), the end of January, in the process of finding a place to live with the afore-mentioned 'spunk'... And now we're here. (Me) Trying to write a relevant blog post, (You) trying to figure out why you're still reading it...

Here's why.

Because you need design. Just one design, multiple designs, designs you never knew you needed until now, designs you still don't know you need but I'm going to convince you that you do. Designs for your new business, designs for your old stale 'word art created, out of date brochure & logo' business. You need designs that yell "LOOK AT ME!!!" without going to the extent of hiring the guy that used to do the Harvey Norman ads.

Watch this space for more reasons & more fun loving conversations between me & the internet!

In the mean time here are some of my latest creations.

Just a little bit of typography, I can do custom typography for anything you need.

Business Cards I designed for Matilda Lawns, complete with green edges by lovely Dee. 

A design challenge for some fun at work.

Coast Real Estate branding re-design, for UWD.

Bellissima!

The beginning of something Beautiful.

I'm very happy to bring you this news, I've been chosen by the lovely Kelly of Bellissima Beauty to be the designer of her new endeavour. Kelly is an experienced beauty & massage therapist based in Brisbane, QLD. Beginning with this gorgeous typeface I created a look for her brand that said Beautiful & Sophisticated, Natural & Light.

BCS Logo

New logo for Bathurst Christian Students, in preparation for their new University year. The logo will be used in their monthly flyers, posters, website & on all internal communications.

2013 Begins!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all that!

2013 is here, and 2012 didn't gobble us up into a Perfect Storm/ Zombie Apocalypse ending.

My year ahead is looking promising, some new freelance clients showing their faces here at Grace Simpson Design, and hopefully soon a Junior Graphic Designer role to get my career in full swing. Maybe I'll even join the facebook community!

I'm brushing up on my Adobe CS skills...