A Maid of Honor looking to make her bride’s Parisian-themed bridal shower extra special approached me for help. She asked if I could make a chalkboard sign for the party that celebrates the special love of the bride and groom. The result is a large poster that the MoH was able to take to her local print shop, avoiding all the mess and special handling typically associated with making a real chalkboard sign. As a bonus, this was a vector file, meaning that the MoH can be scale it up or down without losing image quality!
I had a lot of fun playing with various glyphs and textures in Illustrator to produce the chalk effects. Lesson learned: the chalkboard filters in Illustrator don’t make things look like chalk! A much better choice is using the Conte Crayon filter.
I paid special attention to typography in this project. When attempting to fake a chalkboard look, some designers forget to hand-morph the letters in order to give them a hand-drawn feel. I made sure that the piece feels organic by carefully manipulating too-straight edges and lines in the typography.
Mixing font families in the piece added to the Parisian-cafe theme of the poster.
Here’s the final result in action:
Both the client and the bride were very happy!
ahhhh I love it! thank you so much … THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH
If you’d like me to help you out with any wedding-related design, please do contact me to see how we can work together.
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