Crafting the Sugar Baby Sweet Shop Experience
Creating elaborate and colorful graphics are exactly where I thrive as a designer. These two sections of graphic design are presented to me often because of the projects that are dreamed up by my professors in my college courses. Projects of future Mexican restaurants, groovy jazz festival posters, and packaging for an imaginary high society candle subscription box. However, those projects tend to never leave the studio or my critiques with my fellow future designers, and this one did.
Sugar Baby Sweet Shop was my first large scale project that I have been given outside of the studio. I have worked on similar elements for different projects here at Graphic Creations, but never all together. When I was first tasked with this elaborate wall mural, window clings, and much more… I could not wait to begin. We had our first meeting at 8:30 am, and I began my work for this project at 10:00 am when we got finished. I was already hand drawing elements, finding the images that would give you a cavity, and most importantly making sure they got a proof as soon as possible for an opening date of the following two weeks.
As a designer, I can see the image in my head of what I strive the outcome to be, and my job is to take that and make it real. When I first decided to be a graphic designer, I learned it is not just a position but a way for people use my ability to express creativity and make an impression with it… no pressure, right? However, I take this ‘pressure’ and use it to propel my skills into creating something that will make all generations appreciate the thought, care, and art behind type and image. Sugar Baby was one sweet job for me to be able to express my creativity. This large-scale job might have been my first, but it is far from my last especially here at Graphic Creations!
-Callie, our AMAZING Design Intern