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Designing isn’t easy, especially if you want to make a really good design. TIP: Designing on paper first is important before you head onto your computer. It helps bring your thoughts together faster and more efficiently. 

Here are some of our first sketches...

As a graphic designer, designing everything and anything is practically our job. Need a poster? We got you. Need a logo? We got you. Need a sticker for a packet of hair pins everyone looses the minute they take it off their hair? Consider it done. 

So you get the basic idea right? Designers design anything and everything. 

When Emelie and I got into this project we were utterly shocked that it took us FIVE (flippin’) months, to come up with some kind of design for the logo that pleases the majority. It was hard!!! 

There were so many times people kept giving us different advice and it just blew our minds and we were close to breaking. We became confused with what we wanted. If it was to look like our designs for the products or not at all. We exhausted ourselves with this particular design until finally we had enough.

We put our foot down and decided to keep the design of our logo and website according to our aesthetics. It will not be tied down to our current designs because in the future it’s going to change.

Below are our initial logo sketches. 

Hi! So you all might be wondering who are the masterminds behind this blog and all the future designs; to keep you out of the dark here are the two creators.

Hainscel (the right) is the Art Director, and Project Manager of the group. She makes sure the styles stay the same through out the collections. Her personal style is youthful and colorful, much like her personality. She brings the Igorot inspired designs from her Filipino blood line.

Emelie (the left) on the other hand is the Creative Director as well as Project Manager (they split the responsibilities between themselves). All designs go through her before it gets printed out. Unlike Hainscel, her personal style is more reserved. She rocks the clean and chic while using a neutral color palette. Coming from Sweden, her Scandinavian heritage is strong with how she carries herself and it bleeds into her designs as well. 

Our designs are mainly inspired by the the Filipino Igorots tattoo’s and the Scandinavian symbols. (See below; from right to left.)

It is heavily intricate as you can see. There is plenty of interlacing patterns and geometric shapes. That is one thing in common both varying designs posses. Fang Od is the oldest tattoo artist who specializes in traditional techniques of Kalinga Tattooing. (See below.)

If you look closely to her tattoo’s you can see the geometric yet organic shapes mentioned earlier. After dissecting the designs on her, and many other people who had similar tattoo’s, we have come to conclude that it consisted of mostly animals, landscapes, animal (inspired) skins, and people.

Dissecting the Scandinavians was just as interesting as dissecting old Igorot tattoo’s. We decided for now to focus on the similarities so we could come up with designs that did not look too different from each other. (See below.)