Meet Stephanie Bruce, an Impartial Designer and Webflow Developer based mostly in London, UK. She has been designing for over 2 years, beforehand working in Finance.
She loves editorial layouts, pictures and visually inventive net designs. She works carefully with businesses and purchasers worldwide.
On this highlight, Stephanie shares a choice of her favourite initiatives — a window into her inventive course of, inspirations, and evolution as a designer.
Featured work
Valentine
That is my newest venture the place I did the artwork route, pictures route, net design and growth for Freewrite Valentine. The principle objective of the web site is to advertise their newest Freewrite Valentine, taking part in tribute to the unique Olivetti Valentine typewriter.
I used retro advertisements and posters as the principle inspiration for the online design and pictures route. We determined to go along with a daring pink color all through the web site to emphasize the retro pink vibes. I had a two weeks deadline to design and construct, in addition to pictures route.
MOD Company Collab
An online design venture I did at MOD company, with inventive director Matt Jumper. My function was to design the web site and create knowledge visuals. It was my first time designing knowledge visuals and I used to be fairly proud of how enjoyable they turned out. Big because of Mod company for bringing me alongside for this venture.
SP28K
SP28K was an exploration web site I did on the Circulation Celebration On Demand course. For this design I made a decision to discover brutalist design with a contact of editorial structure. This venture challenged me to go for a daring method utilizing expressive typography and high-contrast fonts. Photoshoot of the speaker was carried out in Spline.
Ideas and explorations
Outdoors of consumer work, I like spending time creating my very own ideas and net design explorations. By creating idea work, I learnt how a lot I like editorial, pictures based mostly web sites and the way I hope to draw comparable work within the close to future.
Particularly being a comparatively new designer, these ideas have helped me get seen on social media and led to many alternatives.
Temporary biography and profession highlights
I switched careers from Finance to Design over two years in the past. I wished to discover a job that I cherished, and as soon as I found the world of Digital Design, I grew to become fairly obsessed. I really feel like I discovered my calling.
After I labored in Finance, I spent a number of my spare time immersed within the inventive world. I’d go to exhibitions, galleries, theatre performs, and so forth. I additionally studied Images, which helped me develop an eye fixed for element and composition. I really feel that the mix of my publicity to the humanities and my pictures abilities has performed a giant function in growing a powerful visible eye for design.
Since altering careers, I’ve had some superb alternatives to work with main designers and businesses — from a six-month internship with Fons Mans to collaborations with designers like Dann Petty and Benten Woodring.
I’ve been freelancing because the starting of my design profession and am very grateful that my work and community have led to a number of collaborations with worldwide purchasers and businesses.
Inspiration
I discover that the majority of my inspiration comes from taking a look at design exterior of net design. I typically take a look at journal layouts, prints/posters, and branding property. Exploring these areas challenges me to create belongings you don’t sometimes see on web sites.
I additionally draw a number of inspiration from visiting artwork galleries and exhibitions round London, in addition to from movies and video video games like Firewatch and Earlier than Your Eyes.
Future Objectives
At the moment, I’m targeted on working with businesses, as I get pleasure from collaborating and studying as a lot as doable from them.
Within the close to future, I’d like to work with way of life and e-commerce purchasers, and possibly staff up with somebody to create a purposely small, boutique company.
Message to Readers
Put within the time to apply design, and get snug with sharing your work on-line and networking — it will probably result in so many alternatives and collaborations.
I’d additionally say it’s completely tremendous to discover totally different abilities originally, however I like to recommend committing to mastering one or two that really excite you. Keep open to studying and hold pushing your self to enhance, irrespective of what number of years of expertise you’ve.
Be at liberty to succeed in out to me on Twitter or Instagram — whether or not you’ve a venture in thoughts or simply wish to seize a espresso, in particular person or on-line!
