Last spring Ron Prince of PrinceCiples, Inc. asked LLB Designs for a logo update as well as help with some new business cards, letterhead and website design. The new branding materials are clean, sharp and attractive, with a bold blue and white color scheme and professional, classic fonts.

The new PrinceCiples website is a WordPress theme, edited to blend with the rest of the company’s branding and to fit their specific content needs. While a developer handled the more technical aspects of building the site, LLB Designs coordinated the images, colors, fonts and layout. WordPress websites are fairly simple to update, include built-in search engine customization, and are a relatively inexpensive way to get an impactful web presence up and running in a shorter amount of time. The PrinceCiples site includes dynamic rotating images on the home page, custom graphics and downloadable interactive PDF files.

Entrepreneur turned blogger extraordinaire M.F. Chapman asked LLB Designs for some help sprucing up her internet presence.  First was her Cubes & Crayons blog, which boasts updates and information from her amazing bay area company offering co-working space alongside drop-in childcare. Brilliant! The blog is pretty content heavy, so keeping the header and background colors clean and simple creates balance and simplicity. Which is, after all, what Cubes & Crayons is all about!  And of course the colors, fonts and other elements are all in line with the company’s brand, so that the corporate visual identity is reinforced with each (and every!) visitor to her blog.

Next up was Cake, a more personal blog, where she serves up ideas, thoughts and opinions that pop up in the everyday life of an entrepreneur/supermom. The cake theme was a given, Chapman having long advocated that we can all have our cake and eat it, too.  LLB Designs helped develop a tagline with a more modern spin: “Cake: Having it • Eating it • Loving it.”  Coordinating colors tie this more casual blog in with her corporate sites, making for a seamless transition for those reading to and fro. But lest things get too monotonous a more playful header with bright pops of color give it that fun and casual feel appropriate for a person with a baker’s dozen in interests, undertakings and activities. Piece of Cake!

Pink! Tiny dresses! Bows! Nothing evokes squeals of joy and shrieks of delight like a baby shower, and it seems there are plenty of them in the works these days. LLB Designs was recently called on to create a custom invitation for a super stylish mama-to-be and her soon-to-arrive baby girl. This simple card combined a cheerful and decidedly girly color palette with the tiniest of dresses, rompers and onesies. Personal touches such as the family’s favorite mascot were worked into the design as subtle but fun details. In fact, it was such a hit that a matching header was also commissioned for the baby’s online blog.

Pink’s not your color? Not to worry, there are baby boys on the way as well. This more colorful version was designed for a yet-to-arrive little boy and his proud mother-to-be. The brighter, more primary colors and illustrations of toys that go vroooom! are appropriate for a boy, but cute enough to give the mothers something to oohhh and awww over. And again, favorite mascots and the family pug are sweet and unique, just like the future little man himself. Matching note cards complete the set, and now all we have to do is sit back and wait for the little ones to arrive.