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Website Design – Natalie Spencer

Natalie Spencer Website Design

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Natalie Spencer’s business is counseling and consulting (psychotherapy for children, teens, and adults). She is also a school counselor with focus on schooling, college and diversity.

We worked with Natalie to develop a nature related theme for her logo and website. People often associate counseling with – peace of mind and renewal. Using nature-related elements in design can bring such feelings.

The logo combines a heart, a helping hand and nature elements. The strong focus on the heart is what Natalie feels represents best her personal style.

Visit her website for more information: www.nataliespencer.net

If you are looking for branding or web design services, I highly recommend Sabina. Before I contacted her, I had worked with another designer and was underwhelmed with the end product. I am happy I found Sabina because she did a fantastic job creating my website and branding.

Natalie Spencer | Natalie Spencer Counseling and Consulting

Logo and Website Design – Cake Nutrition

Cake Nutrition Website Design

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Vanessa is a nutrition consultant based in UK. I designed her logo and website recently and I am pleased to write about the project here. When I think of good nutrition I imagine apples and carrots. Cakes are somewhere in the list of forbidden food. This is why Cake Nutrition is such a curious name for a nutrition consultancy business.

Vanessa was certain that she does not want a logo with carrots and apples. She likes turquoise, light blue, white, red and pink colors. She prefers retro style to modern. Also she is a perfectionist, something I discovered in the process of work. I understood that her brand is about good, delicious food and about information presented in a fun creative way, not about the dry facts. With this in mind we worked together through several concepts till we found the right design for her. I became again convinced that generally clients knows best what design will work for them. We designers should not push our ideas at all cost but should truly listen to what the client is saying.

Visit the Cake Nutrition website!

I stumbled across Sabina whilst researching potential designers for my branding and website design, and I’m so glad I did. With her patience and creative flair, I think that she’s produced some brilliant work. I think that the final design is just perfect and so many people have complimented me on it. I’m hoping to work with Sabina again on future projects and would have no hesitation in recommending her services!

Vanessa Hattersley | Cake Nutrition Co.

Latest Design Projects

1. This branding set I designed for a pair of photographers – Adorn Photography. The girls insisted on having snowflakes as the central theme of their branding. Initially I thought that this may turn out too seasonal. After getting to know them, I think, in an abstract way, the branding fits with their unique style.

2. Logo design for Misala Handmade. The client was so excited by the Etsy set that I made before, that they ordered a branding set. I love when clients return to me and it makes me feel appreciated as a designer.

3. and 4. I designed two blogs in the last month and both are about cooking. It is interesting how two designs on the same topic can differ so much. The first is The Red Recipe Book for a client who wanted to surprise her mother and give her this blog as a gift (the modern way of making gifts to parents). The second blog I designed for Jennita Russo, an amazing woman who is a dancer, choreographer, private chef, florist and event/wedding planner.

Once again I wanted to thank you for amazing job you did on my website. You are a such a talented artist/designer and made the whole creative process a delight. I greatly appreciated your attention to detail, the quickness of completion, and your expertise and guidance through the whole process!

Jennita Russo | Sugar Plum Foodie

5. A website banner for Amanda Hervey – a freelance writer, editor & stylist. Amanda is the author of “Kentucky A to Z”. The theme of the banner is “Exploring backroads” and I was inspired by pictures of horses and scenery from Kentucky.

6. Blog banner for Mareike Murray – a wedding photographer based in Glasgow, Scotland. The theme of the banner is “Scottish Highland Vintage Romance”. Mareike likes scenery filled with light and also lochs and flowers.

Latest Projects

1. Banner design for Avelaine Scyrup – wedding photographer, part of a branding project. The theme for the banner is “Glamour girl in the big city”. The city scape behind is Calgary in Canada. There are some nice personal details like the the car, which she drives (under the logo) and a number on the shop door (on the right side) which is the same as of a lottery ticket that her grandfather won once. Does this mean anything to her clients? No, but it does tell a story and has an intimate feeling, something that I am usually after in design.

2. Etsy set for Misala Handmade. The client makes fun little bags and purses. The style they wanted to capture is a mixture of shabby chic, polka dots, kawaii style. Many of the hand drawn elements in the banner are inspired by their products.

3. Logo design for Minikin Jewelry, part of a branding set. The client wants her designs to appeal to both her Japanese customers and also US customers. I like the freshness of the color scheme which she chose.

4. Logo design for Sew – modern fabric studio, part of a branding set.

5. Banner for Smitten by Carmen Weddings. The client is a wedding planner and the theme for this banner is ‘Love makes the world go round’. All elements are drawn by hand with ink and then digitally colored. I think the theme is clever and appeals to the adventurous, dreamy side of brides.

Latest Projects

It was a very busy week. It seems the season of hard work begins now, after the summer vacation.

1. Logo design for a desserts bakery in Canada. The whisk is hand drawn, matched with a pretty font called Dolce Caffe by one of my favorite type designers Giuseppe Salerno.

2. Branding design for a bakery in US (this week was much drooling over pictures of cakes and sweets). Almost all elements of the branding are drawn by hand with ink on paper and then digitally processed. It is my favorite way to work these days. Joanna asked for an English country kitchen style.

3. Banner design for a personal wedding website. The client asked for a beach theme and a mixture of abstract with vintage romantic elements. The swirls represent the sea in an abstract way while the hand drawn ribbon gave this classic feel. The vines added to the romantic elegance.

4. This was a very fun banner to design as a part of a branding package for Eliza Claire, UK wedding photographer. The client wanted to have the “English Country Village Fete” theme through this banner. For the first time in my life I hear that hay bales can be used as tables or seats on a wedding party. It was fun to draw these.

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