KATE PARSONS assorted images » design and art direction

What he said

kateparsons — Thu, 26 May 2016 12:04:01 +0000

Image formats

kateparsons — Thu, 26 May 2016 11:56:49 +0000

Courtesy of websitehub.com

Spring Fair

kateparsons — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:34:17 +0000

I’m currently working part-time as Development Manager for Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust. This is the very-quickly-done poster for the upcoming fundraising Spring Fair (it’s missing a logo and there were a few further tweaks, but you get the idea!)

The beautiful game

kateparsons — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:55:07 +0000

It’s only October

kateparsons — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:09:06 +0000

… but I’ve done my first Christmas design job

From long holiday to short deadlines

kateparsons — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:07:05 +0000

Just got back from a great couple of weeks in Canada and vermont and will, no doubt, be posting some choice photos here soon. It’s good to come back to work: this week I’ve had 5 press ads to design for 3 different clients, each with a “needed yesterday” deadline. This is just one of them, for ToyGuard UK. Good to be back!

Children’s dragon dryer

kateparsons — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:49:08 +0000

This is a visual of Puff the Magic Dryer, the dragon dryer. I created the character illustration, have done all the design work. It’s been a bit of a hybrid illustration-design-branding project. Puff dryers are now installed at the Dundee Science Centre, and went down well at the international toy fair in Germany earlier this month with interest from the USA, Australia and Belgium companies. The dryers can be bought from UK distributors ToyGuard.

Dragon flies to Nuremberg

kateparsons — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:16:32 +0000

Tomorrow The Magic Dryer Company and Puff the Magic Dryer – the first hand-dyer designed with children in mind, and the first dragon character I’ve ever created – will arrive at the Nuremburg Toy Fair. I’ve just completed a last-minute information sheet. This is one of the toilet door signage stickers I’ve designed for the product. There’s one for girls too!

Puff the Magic Dryer

kateparsons — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:18:18 +0000

Many children are scared of the noise of hand-dryers, or find them inaccessible. The Magic Dryer Company have come up with a solution – the first hand-dryer for washrooms (slimline and low-noise) that’s made with children in mind. They briefed me to design and develop the Puff character (obviously inspired by the 60s kids’ tune Puff the Magic Dragon) as a friendly dragon who will blow their hand dry (and encourage them to wash their hand in the first place!). I’ve also designed the logo. It’s the beginning of a brand. This is the holding page for the website (copywritten by me too) which will be further developed in the very near future.

Good taste

kateparsons — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:12:34 +0000

This is the home page design for Taste Catering, Swindon passed on today to Russ Clewett who’ll build the site in the next week. Taste do great lunchtime sandwiches (etc), outside catering and have exhibitions by artists in the quirky little shop