graduation card project
In May/June 2025, i was tasked to create a commemorative pack for those graduating this year. This included three cards (including the back of the card), a sticker/badge, and a belly band to keep everything together. I started out with a few ideas and composition cards that I sent to the client.
I wanted all of the cards to obviously be unique to Sunderland, so I thought maybe I could use lions which are depicted on the Sunderland FC badge. Or perhaps, ships which call back to when Sunderland was a ship building city. I also toyed around with potential locations, the clients choosing the City Campus, Monkwearmouth Bridge and Roker Beach to be the main three scenes.
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I created much more detailed versions of some of the sketched ideas I had, above are the illustrations that were not selected. I enjoyed making all of these, and I really wish the Riverside card was selected as it is my favourite design out of all of the ones I did!
There were quite a few changes when it came with the initial ideas, such as replacing all of the seagulls to people in Sunderland FC merch on the Monkwearmouth bridge, and then changing the lions on Sunderland city campus to seagulls. It is not my favourite but the clients seemed to like it.