Showing posts with label Brand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brand. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Makeover // Part 3

This will be the last post I put on this blog. Which feels super awesome and totally bittersweet.

Two and a half years ago (almost exactly) I put up my very first post, some pictures of Aslan, because he was the only thing I had to photograph. It was taken with my first digital SLR, a Nikon D5000, which has (thankfully) been upgraded. Those pictures make me cringe (and chuckle) a little now, but I suppose that's a good thing because I look at them and see just how far things have come. A lot has happened in those two years, and I'm so glad there is some kind of journal to see how this little adventure unfolded.

But it's time to move into a bigger home...and I couldn't be more excited to finally share it!

From here on out, my blog will be living on my website. I'd be so thrilled if you wanted to follow along!*


I'll share a little more about the actual process of the makeover (I've already shared the moodboard and some alternative logo options) on the new blog...but for now I'd really like to give a shoutout to Blair from Leap who did the web design and programming, and to Breanna who created the logo and general direction for design. I know a lot of people who have really struggled to find great designers that can visualize a great brand and follow through on creating it, and these girls were a dream to work with.

And hopefully over the next few weeks, we'll be able to migrate some of the old posts over to the new site. But feel free to stop back here to read through the archive...unlike real homes, this one will still be around to visit once I move out ;0).

*To follow along with an RSS reader like Feedly or Bloglovin, just type annareynal.com into the add or search field and then click follow. Easiest way to make sure you don't miss a post!


Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Photo Safari


Sometime around the same point in my childhood that I announced to my family that I would not be wearing dresses every day (which was precisely the same time that my best friend decided that she was no longer going to wear dresses anymore), I also fell out of love with pink. I should probably add that my best friend at the time (and forever) was a trendsetter, and I idolized her coolness for rebelling against all things girly. My feelings towards pink stayed lukewarm until last summer, when a certain nail polish revived my love for vibrant versions of the hue. And now it keeps showing up in my photographs. I blame it on neon coming back into style (which I want to not be obsessed with and yet can't help myself).

To save my dignity, let's just call it coral, and then I'll be okay with it.

As I'm working on redoing my website, which most people don't realize is actually an exercise in finding yourself, I'm using my surroundings as inspiration by taking pictures of things I like - colors, fonts, shapes, ideas. In case it's not obvious, neon coral and gold are invading my life right now, so maybe I should stop fighting and heed the message. I suppose it's time to embrace girliness and femininity, because truthfully, those are two things that should never go out of style.