Carolinne

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Am I Wrong

#typography

Lyrics from the song Am I Wrong by Nico Vinz.

- Trying to be artsy fartsy. Look at that penmanship! lol. #tryhard haha.-

Friday, June 20, 2014

Proposed Design Layout for The Aristocrat Restaurant.

One of the designs I submitted for the marketing head of The Aristocrat Restaurant last summer for their invitations. This is the design I came up with. :)

Original Layout.

My proposed layout.

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Artsy | Summer 2014

Counting the last 2 weeks of my so called "summer" (Since we only have 1 month of Summer vacay)

If I am not out and about, I am at home creating layouts or something artsy 'cause I just wanna explore more on my so called "skills" nyahaha. :)

My really good friend Jb, asked me to create a layout for his personal website. He wanted the design to be clean and somewhat minimalist.

I dunno why this image became darker than the usual when I uploaded it.

-Pattern background not mine-

-Pattern background not mine- (sample only)

This was created out of boredom. Really. I'm not even sure if the text made sense. (i hope it did)

I initially had no idea what text to put. hahaha. So i left it blank for a bout a week and almost forgot about it. :))) But here's the finish product!

This one, I was proud to create. :) I'm actually just a newbie when it comes to doing vector artworks so this was one of the first. I got a photo of my little brother and I was able to try and explore on digital painting as well. To be honest, i struggled blending in the colors and adding shadows. But! Practice makes perfect, so I'll be practicing more on that. :)

Looks almost the same. ALMOST. haha. (still need some serious practice)

My masterpie! - woops. masterpiece. hahaha

(still need some serious practice)

#firsttimer

Friday, May 2, 2014

Personal Branding

It started out here. Doodled a few concepts I had in mind for my own logo.

I then narrowed it down to a few choices and decided to ask other peoples opinion

(my dad mostly had a say but he had his own version of my logo. haha.)

CNC because it stands for Carolinne Nicole Cruz = My full name ;)

Many people know me as Nikki, but I prefer using my full initials in creating my own logo.

And..now onto the colors.

Top Left is lighter

Bottom Right, Darker

But I guess there's hardly any difference I reckon? Hmm.

I decided to settle with the color at the bottom right. :)

Thinking of using this one too. ;)

Sud Logo

About a year ago, a classmate of mine back in high school and I met up and somewhere along our conversation, I jokingly (well, half serious) told him to hire me to do their music video or even their band's logo or something multimedia arts related basta, he'll hire me. haha. He was up to the idea ( at least in that moment i think. haha. ) So i made a few logo study for their band last year.

Here's what I came up with. I don't think they were able to use it but they did approve 1 out of the 4 I made. It was the one with the maroon color. :)

Original logo of the band

Proposed logo
- Afro img not mine. (sample look only) -

Anyways, here's more info about them-their band.

About their band. :)

(grabbed this one from their facebook page )

-->SUD FB PAGE<--

"From delight we came into existence"

So goes the meaning behind Sud's tattoo that over time became the band's description of how they began making what is now the music behind the band, SUD.

Composed of Sud Ballecer on vocals and guitar and that ever famous 'fro, Marc Reyes on bass and the occasional Kaossilator, and Jimbo Cuenco on drums and that middle finger up, the band is a mix of technical ammo and a sure fire round of easy to hum to originals that will make you both jittery and comfortable at the same time.

The band came into being 2 years ago, with a completely different line up, having keyboard work and Sud solely on the mic and his then favorite comfort hoodie, shy eyes and all, gigging around the near metro with covers that span from ALO to John Mayer, showing promise as all the members hail from The UST conservatory of music, a sign that the band is really up to the task of making music as a career.

A few line up changes and bar gigs here and there eventually brought them to the attention of Jimbo, Chii's long time friend and bandmate (from a project called The Dinosaurs which is also worth checking out), starting a series of jams that gave birth to original songs that brought the members to a decision to have Jimbo do the drum work for the band. And it was full on songwriting since the solid four-piece line up came through.

Now the band is releasing a four track EP called Sleep Sex, with songs that shift from dancy beats to that four cornered blues to bass thumping funky rhythm lines to just everything feasible under the sun, proof that the band has so much more to offer than just a box of chocolates. No boxes here, actually. Just that good 'ol chocolate-y goodness from a band that's always constantly musically sexy and secure.

And so from delight they came into existence. But it's so much more than that now. The band is still very much delightful, but growing bigger balls by the day. Something everyone should have. Not just to exist. But to be permanent.

The Making of Manila Glitz Logo

My Auntie started this company only to customize accessories as it started as a hobby.

Now, it has expanded and they are now accepting

printing projects (tarps, billboards etc.) and customizing

layouts (invitations, business cards, etc.)

(Check out more details below )

She asked me to do her logo since she's been changing for

quite sometime now but she still uses the old ones for some

products. Here's what we came up with.

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

Tada! She was happy with the options presented to her and was pleased to have input a few of her ideas and suggestions to the logo. The last logo wins! (Option 4) ;)

Check out their facebook.

-->Manila Glitz FB <--

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