week seven...

talk about a busy day. icon was bumping from morning to night! between aachen and a few st. gallen corrections, it's a good thing the new designer chris got here to take over the sigma trifold i had been working on! aachen [allllll those earlier posts!] conducts aluminum seminars/courses [okay i'm not 100% sure because it is all in german!] that we began to design the little bochure/flier that will be passed out to inform potential students on the happenings...

these are the two options that went out to the client this evening.. looking forward to getting their feedback and seeing what parts the liked and what parts they want to change. the major difference in the two designs is the schedule that is the program. it has come a long way from how it was originally set up, but i think with maybe a few more minds to look at it and comment it can become even better!

sial

sigma aldrich is one of our clients, and they are a company that is based internationally.. i have posted a few other projects i have worked on for them, but this one in particular i enjoyed. the people at sial are awesome to work with! many times a client can say "i want a poster [or flier, or brochure, etc] for this event and we want it to look good". well that just doesn't give a designer any direction as to what information needs to be included, or what is important and what is fluff. sometimes that's great and you can really get artsy and creative with it, but most of the time they end up wanting to simplify and  ruin what you believe to be your awesomely creative work! well sial tells you exactly what they need.. no more no less! they sent over this word document with each element they wanted to incorporate perfectly labeled and ready for me to manipulate! they provided the top graphic, the chart to superimpose, the image of the certificate and bottles, the symbols and logos [just in case we didn't have them]. it was a relief to be given everything in one nicely organized folder and asked "hey.. can you put this together for us?" so check out how i 'artfully' put together this sigma aldrich flier!

sigma aldrich

so there is this semi huuuuge company we do work with called sigma aldrich [catchy blog title, right?] and they're big in the chemistry, sciencey world that i am foreign to.. probably more foreign than i am being an american living in switzerland! but the place that we meet is in the designing of their collateral. i have helped out on a brochure and created a newsletter template, that sort of thing.. their newest request however, appears below.

it is going to be printed as a magnet for them to disperse at their will! pretty fun. as you can see from the description the top left is the original and the bottom right is the reworked and retouched image that i created from the bottle and elements that sigma sent us. i hope they enjoy it!

also today, i went to ikea for the first time ever! i have ikea, i love the website... but today was my first in store experience...

it was awesome!! i almost got lost. we got so much awesome stuff. we have turned most of my room into an awesome lounge area [pictures to come.. and i should have taken a before shot!] and we stopped into h&m and i got a warm winter scarf so i don't freeze on the way to work tomorrow. also we decided to be a team of chefs for halloween since we've been cooking some awesome foods lately. french toast for breakfast this morning... pictures to come of that as well!