A while back, I submitted some work to Minted.com, a major paper goods website, to see if, by chance, they liked me. Each year they have a huge wedding invitation competition; thousands of designs are created by people from all over the world. Having never entered an artistic competition before in my life, no less a large global one, I didn’t know what to expect and therefore was blissfully ignorant. I just designed what I liked and sent it off. In fact, I’ve never even designed invitations before – not even for my own wedding. Well imagine my surprise when I received an email over the weekend declaring that I was a winner!
I’m so excited! I absolutely love watercolor illustration and the notion that I could actually get paid to do it just makes me pinch myself. I’m looking forward to much more Minted work in my future, and hopefully a lot of custom work as well – because when you go custom, you can really create something unique. You have a lot more play with your typography, which takes design to the next level. Here are some of my inspirations for custom illustrated invites that are just the bee’s knees:
So cheers to the New Year and a new venture for my creativity! I’m excited to enter more challenges, push my designs further and hopefully make many beautiful invites this year.
way to go, kid!