Design Musings

Recently Carl treated me and his wife Maria to a meal at The Dining Room; the restaurant of one of our client's. The Dining Room is a cosy fine dining experience in Rock, North Cornwall - and the food was delicious! A feast for the eyes as well as taste buds, with homemade bread and homemade fresh clotted cream butter, light delicate soups, terrines, glazed belly pork and venison all tasted. Puddings of custard tart and dark chocolate ganache with home made hazelnut ice cream. Topped off with the most delightful mini cake stand with a Cornish cream tea. It kept our mouths watering for days after and looking at the pictures brings back those wonderful tastes all over again! Any day now the website we designed for them will go live, and you can see even more of Fred and Donna's culinary delights. Emma Julian

We recently completed an eccommerce website for a local Cornish business, The Cornish Flower Shop. Our client already had a website and was selling her fresh flowers online but wanted to expand. We started with her logo drawing inspiration from the bright colours of the flowers she grew so we created a colour scheme of green and pink. I used some elements of illustration in the logo but it is quite simple using only one colour and is a vector image. To accompany this I also illustrated one of our clients bouquets to use as an extra element and show a combination of fresh and friendly hues. Next we moved onto the website. One of our clients unique selling points was her location, these flowers before they are pressented to you at your door have lived a charmed life! They are grown on a small scale on a Cornish farm with views to both coasts. So with this in mind I wanted to use quite a bit of photography in the site setting the scene. The home page I have designed to have ...