St Margarets School website

Our new school website

I was really happy to design the website for my daughters school - St Margarets CE Primary. Yes I did put her in as one of the kids on the homepage...who could resist! The school tell me they are happy with the site, and I can see they have been regularly updating it too, which is good, so it will be found on Google searches. Primarysite who made the site are really good and the school tell me its easy to just drag and drop files for the updates.

Bunnies on a picnic

These little bunnies on a picnic sold last spring so could be in the shops somewhere....let me know if you see them : ) (copyright is with the buyer). If only we could go on a picnic! Thinking about it, this river is probably flooded now, could be a soggy day out.

Bike it school website!

Wigginton School Website

 This is a recent website I designed for Primarysite. The school wanted the local pond and willow tree featured as well as the school building. I put in a bike too, as they are a 'bike it" school... (keep the hubby happy : ))

School website illustration

Working with PrimarySite I have now  illustrated my first school website with animations on it. Have a look at the site here, it was fun to animate the kids ringing bells and blinking! I also made the blackbirdy fly... I really enjoyed designing this one.

Childrens Food Trust Illustrations

Over the past year I have been working with Learning Pool to create illustrations for The Childrens' Food Trust. These are being used on their website which promotes healthy eating in schools. Here's some of the artwork I've done. This module was looking at secondary school and the different ways teens deal with lunchtimes.

School Website

Primary Site have just gone live with another website I illustrated for them... have a look here. I am pleased with this one.  I'm working on another school site too and doing some animation for it, just simple things like kids ringing the school bell... I'm using Photoshop to make these (GIF files) and its a simple process, much more basic than Flash really, although not as sophisticated.

Little miss lovely fox

My new agent is now Yvette Tinworth of  'Never Forget Yvette', she represents a lot of talented designers. Here is my latest character for the collection. I am currently working on Autumn designs and these will be shown at PV in Paris this Friday.

Primary Site

Lately I have been working with Primary Site, they design websites for primary schools across the UK. My job is to illustrate and design the home and contents pages. The elements from my illustration are then used throughout the site. This is one of my first schools, which Primary site have featured on their homepage, am pleased with it! Have a look here : )

Rock monsters in George

Here are my little rocking monsters, I spied in George at Asda. The original design was on grey, (see above) the client has put it onto a limey yellow t-shirt. They have also embroidered a little badge and put it on dungarees.

Pumpkin Patch

 Here are 3 of my designs that made it to the high street, this time in Pumpkin Patch. I'm pleased with the way they have used them - look pretty cool! I just want
to see them in the shop myself now, to get a closer look.

Illustrations for e-learning

During the past month or two, I've been working on more illustrations and graphics for Learning Pool. The project is called 'Adults at Risk' an e-learning package, the illustrations are peppered throughout the script content, giving the reader a visual aid for learning. You can see more of these illustrations on my website.

Owls branch out

Rainbow Crafts are now stocking the Makower owl fabric I designed. Good to see it being sold in lots of different places! Its a shame my Gran isn't around she was a collector of owls so would have loved to make something crafty using this fabric.












 

Patchwork Corner












New Threads Quilt shop

Heroes

Mini Club at Boots have a few of my designs in store at the moment, this is my 'Heroes' - little chuggy fire engine and ambulance. The one on top is my original design and the next one down is how they made it up for the high street... they kept it a near as possible to the original...lovely job!

Illustrations for E Learning

For the past few months I have been working on a really exciting illustration project for a new client, Learning Pool. I've produced illustrations based around scripts, in a comic strip format. These illustrations will be used as part of a package of e-learning for social workers.

The subject matter has been quite disturbing, mainly concerning the welfare of children, however the illustrations have been a joy to do.

These images are a snapshot of the work that I've done on the project. A big thank you to Rachel, one of the script writers, for recommending my work to Learning Pool!

New Website

Moonfruit is a great place to build a website. I've just spent some time making a new site as my old one (......which was lovely and my brother Anthony helped me make it), was a load of hassle to Ant if I wanted to upload new designs! Moonfruit is very easy to use, and has some great features such as a slide show, and various user friendly gadgets to help make the site look pretty ok. So have a peek and see what you think. I will hang on to my old site for now too.....oh dear hoarding again!

catherine moran desgin

I have got totally side tracked today, I started out so well, designing a new group of baby boys wear, then I ended up thinking about my website, and should I re-new, catherinemoran.co.uk!

I had the renewal notice from the guys in cyberspace and I thought, well isn't there a better newer way to show my work.... I suppose I think my website needs badly updating! So I created a new flickr account, and uploaded some of my kitty stitch handmade items...... I now intend to upload some more of my work in different sections.... illustration, graphics with examples plus my textile design...... its all very well, but is it professional enough? I doubt it!