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Here is the Christmas card that we sent this year. This year we have made a big change in the style and we have gone for a cartoonish and fun design. There is a reason for all this.

When we first thought about doing the new design for the Christmas greeting we decided to do it by using some of the design and illustration work that we have actually done during this year, like a sort of potpourri thing. So we looked at the archive and we found some elements that were just perfect for a Christmas theme.

First, I decided to do a revision of the Businessman illustration that I originally designed for the Contact page of this site. So I practically disguised the mailman as a Santa. I thought it would be perfect to have him carrying a sack with presents and toys, instead of the mail sack in the original picture. And then I made a new suit for the man, stack a fake beard and mustache, and there you go! Ready to deliver.

Then I also found very interesting to use these Globe illustrations that I had previously designed for commercial use. I thought it could be a nice way to express the concept of “world peace” and “unity” for the spirit of Christmas. So I decided to use one of the globes instead of a sack with presents: Santa bringing the world peace to the world. This is one of the different versions of globe illustrations that I did. It’s called “Chrome” because when I first did it we thought it looked just like the chrome effect, which happens to be the same typical texture effect in the Christmas balls. So I decided to turn the Globe into a huge chrome Christmas ball.

Finally, I found these pine trees that we lately did for the design of a web site in Montana. They fit in the style with the rest of the stuff I was using, so I decided to use them too. I really like the idea of recycling stuff in every sense of the word. This was a wonderful opportunity to greet the holidays to our clients with something that truly represents our work, so nothing better than our past work.

If you like the final Christmas design, here you can download a Desktop Wallpaper for free. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Intuitive Designs!

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It was time for another change in our Home. Last month we already did some changes and the illustration of the chef quit whipping cream to hold a piece of chocolate cake, but the header with the old line “Let’s whip the cream of the crop together” remained and it was a little pointless.

Last week, we asked Naomi Dunford at Ittybiz what our unique selling point (USP) might be for our business. She does marketing and consulting for small businesses and she gives really great advice in a practical way for people who work from home on her blog. She came up with this idea for us: “Creative sites for creative people”. We thought it was really good. We love when we get feedback from creative people like Naomi. It inspires us to come up with something new for our business. So we decided to add the “cooking” theme we already have in place to the USP she suggested and finally got this: “Cooking creative sites for creative people”.

We really think Naomi had a point because we have always thought that creativity is what we can best offer to our clients and we really want to work with people who are especially interested in finding creative and customized solutions that are effective for their business needs. That’s one of the reasons we we like to be so versatile in this job. We don’t like to be stuck in one particular style and give the same product to every project because, for us, every project has different needs and needs a different style and a different look. We enjoy fitting to each project different design and illustration styles. Sometimes we even get a little disappointed when the clients presume we are not right to do a certain work just because the style they’re looking for is not in our portfolio. Obviously, we can’t have all the design styles in our portfolio but we do can work with any of them and we love to do it.

With the new tagline, it was obvious that we needed a new illustration for the header to replace the old whipped cream. I never liked the old whipped cream illustration very much and I think this new one re-enforces the image of design at first glance, which is good for us because sometimes people say our site looks more like a cuisine site than a design one. So we came with this cooking pan full of pencils and pens, and once again… Supper’s ready!