I’ve gotten everything backwards and seem to have talked about the blog’s new look everywhere except on the blog itself. So, for those of you who haven’t seen it (*cough* feed readers? *cough*) I gave the blog a new look last week. What do you think? I wanted something white and fresh, more colour (but not too much).
I made the header myself: I’m no designer, but I do get a strong picture of what I like and often do ‘mock ups’ of these ideas before handing it off to get it done. This header started life that way – but when I got to the final version I thought, “Hey, that’s it.”
For anyone who’s curious, I created it in Canva and then re-sized it in PicMonkey to get to the correct WordPress dimensions.
The image at the top is important to me and here’s why: it is a grab from a picture Keira did at school during art last year.
She was really proud of how it came out and I loved it too. It was so cheery and was the result of a successful creative endeavour.
I cleaned it up a little for the header, but I deliberately kept some smudges. If you look up close, you’ll see the large pink triangle has a white mark going through it, where the bristles on the brush had clogged together, leaving that needle of untouched paper. I wanted to represent and highlight the imperfections of creativity, showcasing both sides of it, so to speak.
And there’s a new tagline: ‘living, learning, creating’. Distilling the essence of the blog, and what I seek to achieve, into those three words will – I hope – allow people to get a quicker grasp of what I do. Not that the old one was ‘wrong’ (and I’ll always reference it here), but things change.
What do you think of the new look?
