25
Apr
2012
by Emilyin Competitions, News & Updates
This Give Away is now closed, thank you to everyone who entered, I really enjoyed seeing all your photos! I have emailed the winner and will announce tomorrow here on my Blog and on Facebook.
To begin with as it’s ANZAC Day, I’ll take a moment to remember our war hero’s, those who returned and those who never came home.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
And now the good stuff! It’s coming up Mother’s Day (Sunday 13th May), and I’d imagine nearly all of my followers are either a Mother themselves, or HAVE a Mother and I’d like to pay homage.
Whether we get paid for working from home or the love that is returned from our families is all our reward for our daily hard work I’d love you share your photos of you doing so. Post a photo on my Facebook Wall of you working from home and leave a comment below. My favourite entry will receive a block of Whittaker’s Dark Peppermint Ghana big enough to be fit for a king (kings sized block in other words) as your reward. I’ll do the draw Wednesday the 9th of May to make sure it get’s to you on time to enjoy on Sunday Morning. If you are entering on behalf of your Mother, please do make sure you do your best to share said chocolate with her 
I am going to be adding a few extra things to the prize now, so I’ll upload a photo of the other things when I have gathered them. Firstly I have decided to include the Mystery package I got from Off The Back. I purchased before Christmas with the thought of wrapping it up as a surprise present for myself for xmas but in true tradition of me promptly forgot about it, and that’s where I found it last week, sitting in the back of my wardrobe still unopened in its courier bag! How awesome is that, it could be something worth $10, or something much more exciting. The winner will have to tell me what it is when they open it!
NZ only please 
If you are overseas it shall have to be a virtual chocolatey reward. I’d love it if you could also ‘like’ my Facebook page, not a required step, but appreciated.
This give a way is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook, it is run primarily on here, I’d love to see your photos on my Facebook wall, but I know not all of you are on Facebook so if not let me know below (or you can email them too me at emily {at} designem.co.nz. I will contact the winner directly using the email address supplied when you leave a comment on this post, and good luck!
15
Mar
2012
by Emilyin News & Updates
I just spent what felt like a stupid amount of time updating my pricing schedual for social media design to reflect Facebook’s new Timeline Covers. Check them out, I have added competition page design to make all your competitions you run adhere to their
Promotion Guidelines. I hope that my sleep deprived mind hasn’t made it too complex! You can see all my prices on my
Pricing Plan page.
Social Media Packages
Personal Branding is very important, and when its shows solidly across all your client mediums you are sure to stand out and be memorable. Please see my
Portfolio for further examples of my work:
Facebook Social Media Package $200
This package includes:
- Facebook Profile Image Thumbnail (individually $25).
- Facebook Timeline Cover Image 951 x 315px (individually $80).
- Facebook Simple Static Information page 810px (individually $80).
- Tab Covers (Up to 4 tab covers) (individually $5).
- Installation (and/or support) plus 1 year image hosting if applicable ($50).
- Includes ONE free revision then $50 there after.
Additional Social Media Design
- Facebook Timeline Cover and Profile Thumbnail combine and save $95.
- Facebook Competition Page, Single page with competition form (Includes install support with free ShortStack account) $150.
- Facebook Competition Page, with non fan content page plus competition form. (Includes install support with free ShortStack account) $225.
- Twitter Background $80.
- YouTube Background $80.
- Blog Header $80.
- The above designs include ONE free revision then $50 thereafter. Pick any three and save 10%.
20
Feb
2012
by Emilyin News & Updates
I haven’t done a blog post since November last year! *Hangs head in shame* But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean I have been idle! I have done an enormous amount of work in that time frame, including celebrating Christmas and keeping the family on track! To see all my latest design work you can view my
Facebook Portfolio.
This is just a few lines to let you know I haven’t forgotten about my blog … and I think I will initiate a new years resolution to make sure I get one out a week at least!
I have a few exciting things on the design plate currently, and I can’t wait to share it with you! Also, keep an eye on my Facebook page. I have had a germ of an idea for a brilliant competition (I do love a good comp) when my FB business page reaches 500 likers! (I’m thrilled to let you all know that out of that very nearlly 500 people only 151 of them are my FB friends!
And really quick at the end, I saw on
Smart Blog for Social Media that Facebook Business Pages are set to change to the same time line view that we now have on our profiles?? So once I have done a bit more research about this I shall share my perspective of this with you, and what this will mean for you own Facebook business page. This is rumored to change on the 29th of Feb, but I will keep you posted.
02
Nov
2011
by Emilyin News & Updates
Firstly I would like to take this opportunity to give my heart felt thanks to Project Floors for sending me some FREE wine! Now, you may ask yourself, why did they give you free wine? And that would be a very good question. Who are Project Floors and why did they send me wine?
Project Floors are a company who have recently started their Facebook business page and found a very effective way of spreading the word to ‘like’ their page without it seems breaking any Facebook Terms and Conditions. Very very crafty indeed. What they did was spread the seed that the first 1000 people to like their Facebook book page and email Dan from Project Floors would receive a FREE bottle of wine! To be honest my naturally suspicious mind made me hesitant to turn over my address details to an unknown entity, but after doing a bit of research to the legitimacy of the wine claim and the company I relented to lure of free alcohol and emailed him.
Word of the free wine spread like wild fire through Facebook, it seems it really does make the world a smaller place, and I noticed many of my friends from all walks of life also claiming their free wine and passing the word on, to their friends, and their friends and on and on until now they have 1,022 likers. An amazing achievement since I started my page only a year ago and am still sitting on 430ish (not complaining, I love every single one of you!)
Most of you who know Facebook, know there are many rules and regulations of what you can and can’t do when promoting your Facebook Business Page, so I have to commend Project Floors on a Social Media Campaign well run! And since they have kept me well bribed with my liquid gold I’m going to give them 25% off if they want to hire me to create them a fancy new logo to align with their company moto ‘The up-to-date company’.
And this leads me to their second part of their ploy to keep their likers coming back for more .. most creative placement of their business card! Well, my first thought was to place it in my cleavage, but erh .. well it’s not exactly the best public image to present, and also in my haste to remove the wine from it’s casing I accidentally ripped it heh. So yes, this is part of my creative placement. On the interwebs, my blog and on my very own beloved Facebook Business Page!
So, if you are in the market for some new flooring, please go check out their website, and perhaps even like their business page on Facebook!
27
Aug
2011
by Emilyin Logo Design, Storyboard of a design
This is the logo I designed for MUMSreview. The development of this logo actually led me to design the new look and feel of this website! One of the original versions included my little Babushka Dolls. I knew as soon as I had created them that I felt that they were suppose to be mine, but I still let Deb from MUMSreview see them first, and I have to say I was elated that she said, although she liked them, they weren’t quite what she was looking for. I told her how relieved I was to hear that since I wanted to keep them for myself. I suppose that also tells you how far behind I have gotten with my blogging! Naughty Emily. I promise to make a better effort at keeping up.
Below is just a tiny bit of the development that went in to the creation. As you can see it made quite a jump from where I started to where it ended up.
About MUMSreview
MUMSreview provides companies the opportunity to get their products trialed by members who will in turn provide a review which can be read by any member of the public.
In doing so we are raising awareness of many different products out there and providing an honest opinion on just how good those products are.
It is not all about obtaining products to trial, but also for members to place their own experiences with different products so that we hopefully end up with a wide range of products that hopefully will encourage other Mums to go out and purchase, knowing that they are buying what is right for them.
You can find out how you can become a member on their website MUMSreview, you can also go show them a little love by ‘liking’ them on Facebook and keep up to-date with all the latest reviews on their blog.
25
Aug
2011
by Emilyin Logo Design
Well, I am the first to admit I have been rather busy recently. Being a Work from home Mum means I don’t get a lot of time left over, and when I do, I have to use it wisely which means my poor old blog seems to get neglected. This post has been sitting in my drafts since June!
Since time is of the essence, and I have several more logos to show you to bring me up to date I shall just keep this short and sweet. I really love the way this logo has turned out, and I am also pleased to announce that this is another logo of mine that has received it’s registered Trade Mark. (Ponders .. perhaps I should do that for mine heh)
Posh Britches is the brain child of Sacha, who wants to bring comfortable but attractive underwear to Mamma’s post C-Section. Having had a c/s with my twin girls I can assure you there is a serious lack of supportive sexy underwear! You can find out more about Posh Britches on their Facebook page.
03
Jun
2011
by Emilyin Competitions Tags: 1000, competition, Facebook, free, likers, logo, stationary
To celebrate that advent of 1000 ‘likers’ on Facebook I have decided, since I am also launching my new look website to have a wee bit of an extravaganza! I will award one lucky Facebook ‘liker’ with an amazing business identity package.
The winner will receive ONE Basic Logo Package worth $99, Letterhead and Business Card design Package worth $90 and a massive Social Media Package worth $200. This is all you need to completely transform the face of your business! But don’t forget you have to be a liker of Designem on Facebook to be eligible!
To Enter email me using my contact from with the subject ’Facebook Competition′. Once we hit 1000 likers I will advise of the shut off time.
For an extra chance to win, you can tag yourself in one of the 1000 Liker Extravaganza photos on the Designem Facebook Business page.
You can check out my new Pricing Plan Page for a full list of my Services.
1) This competition is open to fans/likers of Designem on Facebook, who are over 18 (Parents can claim prize on behalf of any child under this age)
2) Entry into the competition is only by emailing me using my contact from.
3) By entering the competition, you are acknowledging that this promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. You are providing your information to Designem and not to Facebook. The information you provide will only be used for picking a winner and notifying them.
4) Once Designem on Facebook has reached 1000 ‘likers’, there will be an extra 2 days opportunity to get emails sent to allow time for the newest likers to enter. The time of the impending draw will be published before the 2 days begins.
5) The winner will be chosen at random using my son … he draw a name from the hat again, since he was so good at it last time I will video this again and post it here
6) Winner will be notified by email as soon as possible following the draw, once contact has been made I will announce the winner in Facebook.
06
May
2011
by Emilyin Storyboard of a design Tags: art, Design, emily matthews, new direction, story board, vector, website
Well, I sort of ran in a brick wall as far as coming up with a new design. I was running around in circles so I decided to take a step back from it and do a couple of side things. Which, I am surprised to announce worked! And within a day I had come up with a design concept, which I LOVE. I sooo want to reveal it, but their is a bigger part of me that wants to keep it under wraps. Today I am starting the html version, before I convert it to a WordPress theme so instead I will leave you with a bit more of the research I have done and the vector image of myself that has spun the concept.
The main idea is to keep it as clean and simple as possible so my portfolio pieces will pop, but at the same time showcase my ability and keep that essential me.
Oh and before I sign off for today another part of the new design came from an concept I did for a client. I knew as soon as I designed it I knew I WANTED it, and had a little battle inside myself before I sent it off. Lucky for me although she said she loved it, it wasn’t what she was looking for. MWHAH which means I can keep it for myself (and back to the drawing board for that design heh).
27
Apr
2011
by Emilyin Logo Design Tags: Birth Power, christchuch, Design, designem, earthquake, emily matthews, fund raising, logo
Introducing the new logo for
Birth Power. This is a special one because the lovely people who I have designed it for purchased my skills though
Charity Auctions for the Christchurch Earthquake 2011 that raised in total almost 11 thousand dollars!
The team at
Birth Power were very specific with their client brief, which made creating their new logo reasonably easy. It always help to know what direction to take a design in, and I am quite happy with the result of this one.
Birth Power offer quality Childbirth Education classes to expectant parents and also run an on-line shop, they have four children themselves so have used most of the products they sell.
I also whipped them up a facebook Avatar.
You can join them on
Facebook! Go on, go ‘like’ them and let them know I sent you!
20
Apr
2011
by Emilyin Logo Design Tags: illustration, logo, New Zealand, NZ, NZWAHPShowcase, parents, people, Showcase, vector, work at home parents
Just a quicky, every one has been sick here so need to get back in the frey. I introduced this logo on
Facebook back last week so here it is.
You can visit them on
Facebook or at their
blog. NZWAHP Showcase is a place for Work from Home Parents in NZ to advertise their products, services via their blog posts and web updates.
Phew … thats about all I have energy for today!
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