Design Musings

We have just released our first Twitter Backgrounds, available now to download on the Pickle Design website. Here are four examples of my favourites, but we have eight online to choose from. Anyone who uses Twitter will empathise, when I say that the standard backgrounds can become extremely tedious after a short while (or perhaps I am just awfully fickle...), and that is why so many create their own. But many Twitterers are looking for something individual and unique. So we set about coming up with some fresh backgrounds of our own. We will be adding new designs regularly, so keep checking back to see what we have created, and feel free to contact us with any requests.

We had a chance to produce a sneak preview of the new branding and design created for Buttermilk Shop. After working for quite some time to distil the separate elements of the business, we have completed the greater part of the project. But the new designs have yet to be printed. That was when the owner of the business had a little job that could queue jump and give us a chance to test out the brand. The images are of bag headers created for a new line Buttermilk Shop have started, a pasty made of their delicious fudge! This was obviously intended for a different market to the rest of our packaging work, so Emma came up with a style that focused on capturing the intrinsic Cornishness of both the fudge and the pasty itself. But we were still able to tie in the packaging to the new brand, and Marie helped apply the logo and layout that will be seen across the boxes of fudge and website. This was created in black and white to emphasise the Cornish location and product. So, somewh