fiona whyte

"Sunshine on my Shoulder"

"The Powerful Union of the Egmont Lighthouse and Mt Taranaki"

"A Hive of Activity"

These paintings are created by New Zealand artist Fiona Whyte. Striking colours and a simple illustrative style... awesome.

weddings galore...

So I have a few friends (and two brothers) getting married within the next year or so, which is awesome because I love weddings, designing invitations and I especially love doing wedding "research" (which I class as looking for really cool stuff like decorations, photography, colour schemes, wedding dresses...the list goes on...) so I have a million and one 'wedding inspiration' bookmarks that come in very handy! This is an invitation I did at work a while ago for a client. Will post more invitation designs as they progress...

card observer

This site is a real gem for business card inspiration... check it out here. I'm hooked!

raining cats and dogs...

Well it's been pretty spectacular weather here at the moment, it's a nice change from having no seasons at all! This is a rad picture I took from our apartment balcony.

old school bacardi

I've been doing quite a bit of design work for Bacardi at work at the moment so I have engrossed myself in research about the brand. The other day I came across some old ads on Flickr. They're from the 1960's (as you can probably tell in the first ad from the hairstyles and clothes...!) Pretty retro, love it.

via Flickr

paper art

This is the most amazing work by Russian artist/designer Yulia Brodskaya. She specializes in textile painting, origami and collage... there is lots more of her work on her website, check it out here.

box. bottle. bag

This is some work that I did recently at North55 for an Italian restaurant in Dubai called Urbano. A fantastic packaging website called The Dieline has recently called for entries for a new packaging book, so I submitted this!
*Images taken by Dubai based photographer Felix Shumack of icandy.

live with love...

From one of my favourite blogs dedicated to romantic, lovey dovey, sexy, heart fluttering images... Le Love

save the date

A save the date invitation I recently designed for my little brother.

stunning...

As I'm in the process of designing several wedding invitations at the moment I'm always on the look out for some good inspiration. I've recently discovered work created by Studio on Fire, they have a blog called Beast Pieces that is definitely worth a look. This gorgeous invitation card with a belly band includes an invite, a map and an RSVP postcard. Such a cool idea that doesn't require an envelope.

kia ora

Welcome to Artful Conception! I've created this blog to share some of my current work, cool photography, illustrations, colours, patterns, any sort of inspiring bits and bobs that I find. I love anything to do with art and design so this is going to be a collection of things that make me happy.

Enjoy! x