hello
good morning welcome to a another little studio vlog so today i am actually going to attempt to
design some new products so i'm actually thinking super far ahead i'm wanting to do something for
valentine's day or palentine's day or galentine's day basically a bit of love whether it's for your
partner or your pal and i feel like that could be quite a cute video to do so i'm going to
show you from start to finish what i do i'm going to be at my desk for most of the day
um and before we get started i'm going to do a quick little shout out to this week's little vlog
sponsor all right let's open up the mx anywhere 3 logitech mouse i'm so excited to give this a go
and it's worked out perfectly because now my mum works for me she works on a laptop all the time
and it often like hurts her wrist so i'm now gonna be able to give my mum this mouse and if
you've watched my videos for a while you'll know that i use a logitech mouse and keyboard myself so
i'm very excited to see how this one looks feels and performs ooh she's sleek
that was a good catch i was gonna say she's sleek she's beautiful i didn't drop her i promise
it's got a usb adapter thing so you can either use the usb to connect it to your computer or
if your computer has bluetooth capabilities you can use bluetooth let's peel this off
oh we love the satisfying and oh i can see already it has the ability to connect to more than one
computer so i don't know if you can see on the bottom of the mouse there's like a one two and
a three so that means it can connect to three different devices so if i wanted to use this on
my computer i can set my computer up as number one i can set my mums up as number two and then if we
got another staff member or whatever i can set them up as number three the features contoured
form and ultra soft silicone side grips yeah i love the silicone here oh there's the buttons
on the side too so i think i can set these up for various different like commands tracks precisely
even on glass you can change the profile and its settings depending on which computer you're
on so i actually have the logitech app on my laptop already and it's usbc quick charging
it charges in one minute for three hours of use and a full charge lasts up to 70 days amazing so
i am gonna set this up now and i mean by the time you're watching this video you'll have seen me
using it in action but i will leave a link in my description to this logitech mx anywhere 3 mouse
and i am going to put it to use now and then we'll give it to my mum and see how she likes it too
so
it's now the next day i got so carried away last night doing everything but designing the
um valentine's day things um i did manage to scroll on pinterest as you saw and i got a few
drafts done on my ipad but now i'm gonna take it over to my laptop so i said i was
going to show you the process so first job is always go to pinterest find ideas color schemes
quotes and stuff like puns i think i want to do like punny valentine's day cards although i do
want to do some you know like something that's not necessarily you're going to buy for your partner
something that you just want to send to your friend to remind them how nice they are and how
much you love them so i've been struggling to try and find quotes for that so i might have to like
revisit that but i'll go to pinterest pin everything on there you can follow me on
pinterest it's linked in the description and then i will sketch some rough very rough sketches on
procreate sometimes i can take a design straight from procreate um and then just put it in my
computer and print from there but sometimes i'll do a sketch on procreate and it's better suited to
being done on adobe illustrator so yeah i always end up with it on my laptop
and especially now because i can print things at home i need it on my laptop so
i can obviously like plug it in so that is the plan i'm gonna head over to my laptop
now and we will sort out hopefully some of these designs and get them get them printed is
all right so i have spent many hours um fiddling with these valentine's day designs i think
i like two of them one of them i keep changing so you'll see in a second
it's literally not even anything right now i've read the words that much now that
they don't look like words anymore does anyone else get that um i'm sure a lot of creative
people get that like it just looks chinese to me now um but i really like the first one especially
um so i'm gonna print them out i don't actually have a because i want to print
them out a6 like my current greeting cards let me show you so my current greeting cards are
a6 size so nice and cute baby size um so i want to do the same and i do have some recycled card
in a4 so i'm gonna probably guillotine it down and then just print one and see what it looks
like i haven't designed the back or anything i'm literally just gonna print it and see what happens
but it is getting late so i feel like i might as well just stop fiddling this is my problem you
know i'm so much of a perfectionist nothing ever looks right and i could spend hours and hours and
hours just playing around with it when in reality it does look okay i just need to like chill out a
little bit so i'm gonna cut up some paper and then i just need to format these a little bit so they
will print properly i think um and then we will we will see so i thought i would just show you how
i'm gonna format them so i actually designed them on just a4 pieces of paper and then i'll go back
in um as you can see this is the one that isn't anything yet um but i do really like these two so
we're gonna print them out and see what they look like i might wake up in the morning i hate them
both but that is just how things happen so this is a4 on my screen so i want to split it into
four so i can print both of them on the same page so i'm going to click the rectangle tool
click and drag copy and paste drag this up here this is very hard to do with one hand
and by some miracle i actually did that bang in the middle then i'm gonna drag them both down and
it'll probably click to size like that so that is the page split into four perfectly and i've just
exported the designs into just jpegs for now so i just drag those in and then they are both
in there currently on top of each other like so and we might as well resize them together i'm
gonna need two hands for this all right so i'm gonna just click them both and i want to align
to the side of my artboard so horizontal align right to my artboard if you aren't familiar with
adobe illustrator by the way i do have a course all about adobe illustrator there's modules
you get a certificate all that jazz so i will as always leave a link to that in my description okay
so this is the cards in fact i'm going to flip this one round just so i don't have to try and
not cut the um paper we're going to delete those boxes we don't want the black lines and then i'm
just going to print this out so this is my printer not sure why my room is coming up really orange
it is the canon ip something i can't remember what it's called it's linked in the description
and then i've just got recycled card in the top from eco craft again linked in the description and
this printer prints borderless so it will print edge to edge it means i can print out my prints
like this one um and yeah it's good for art prints and i'm very much enjoying it so i actually
look at how the lamps light in half of my body i actually have a setting set up on my laptop that
is ready for printing i do recommend experimenting so if you've bought a new printer or something
recently and it's not working just experiment you are going to waste a little bit of paper just make
sure you recycle it and see what works best for you i have all of my printers plugged into this
usb adapter thing because i have like my little printer my label printer and this one
so they're all plugged into this so anytime i need one of them i just have to plug this whole thing
in rather than trying to figure out which cable that like belongs to which printer so let's go
print and we've got it set to my canon ip8700 in fact i'm going to save it as a pdf and print
it that way so i want to save as adobe pdf and then we'll print from here so i like to
print in the preview menu so open preview and i just let the system dialogue do it to be honest
um the colors might turn out a bit strange but that's why we do test prints
so we're going to go file print and hopefully the dialogue's the right one yeah so this is
the system dialog that i've got set up these are my settings if you want to pinch them
and it's on a4 borderless high quality print and i've got the canon ip8700 and it's the number two
because that's the wired one because it's also wireless wireless okay print entire
image i have low ink let's hope i've got nothing because this is gonna use a lot
okay let's go would help if i turned the printer on and hopefully this doesn't take too long
there we go and i'm gonna use my very rubbish guillotine to cut it i got this from amazon and
it was super cheap and it's not very good but i'll just have to see what happens i've noticed
straight away because i have used um recycled paper as opposed to like proper printer paper
um it has soaked up a lot of the ink like it's not as vibrant so i will have to like bear that
in mind when i order them or if i'm gonna make them from home i'm not really sure yet let me
know if you'd like one of these because i have no idea if there's any demand for them at all but
let's see what these look like that's number one i do love that the colors haven't shown up quite
as nice as i'd like them to so i'll definitely need to do some more testing let me just chop
the bottom of this off because i've not cut it straight though oh god oh this guillotine
i mean that's wonky i might as well cut that with some scissors
but there it is actually looks really cute quite happy with that so if you
want a tip on how to fold things a little bit neater than normal try and use like a
straight object so this is obviously the end of my desk and i try and fold them
on straight corners like this i feel like i got this from like product design in secondary school
and when we used to have to like mold plastic and stuff but obviously it's not always perfect
but they're homemade and these are just testers so it's fine probably should have printed the soul &
fire thing on the back but oh well oh these look cute oh my god this is like good potential for me
possibly making greeting cards by myself like in the office definitely need to work on the colors
let's fold up this one i'm not a huge fan of the dark background on this i might change that
um but i wanted to try and stay away from sort of having just pinks because pink is
very like typical valentine's day it's also stereotypically very feminine and not everyone
who wants to buy a valentine's card really likes the color or wants to use the color
so yeah i might have a play around with some different color layouts but i mean you'll have
seen in the clip of me designing them i changed the colors so many times i love this this is
showing up a lot brighter on my camera it's quite dull in person so i would definitely want to work
on it but i think that's super cute i like the kind of blocky graphical style that i've gone for
this definitely needs some work all right yeah i'm happy with that i feel like that's
been a productive day i'm gonna go back on my laptop now and just have a little bit of a play
around with the colors maybe change the printer settings to like a new custom settings obviously
the setting that i used was for my art prints and it uses different paper so
yeah i am i hope you enjoyed this vlog i feel like it's been very laptop based i think i did mention
that at the beginning so apologies but that is my life that's the life of a graphic designer
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