Fun Cases is the company I have had the pleasure to work at since starting my career, Fun Cases is a merchandising company who specialises in Phone cases. Since being in this role I have transformed the company with my illustrations. While constantly making fresh designs for new products, I have explored different digital formats and content creation including: product photos, GIFS, email images, social media posts and website content.
As the resident graphic designer in the team I make new designs for our products, taking inspiration from pop culture and recent events. Our products are released on a collection basis, consisting of 10 designs.
Here's some of my recent designs below:
Social Media
As the company prints every design in-house we've had the opportunity to make viral moments into cases quickly and as the designer it means being on top of current trends.
We also turn these trendy cases into short-form TikTok content, I don't directly orchestrate the social media content however I'm always making the assets/ posts and sharing ideas on popular TikTok trends we could hop onto.
I also create other content for our social medias such as carousels and grid posts. Our carousels tend to be for new product launches and grid posts for offers. Here are some examples of the carousels:
I did tend to explore designs that featured Apple iOS UI as we're primarily a phone case company so I wanted to have subtle nods to that while still being trendy.
Grid post examples:
Site Content
For every seasonal event or sale the site needs a new banner, each banner is illustrated by me using the illustration style I've adopted for the brand. All banners are sized for both mobile and PC versions of the site.
I also create a lot of assets for the site such as seasonal logos, icons, product icons and images.
You can see all my digital work on the site here: www.funcases.com
Wallet phone case icon
Crop top icon
Stickers icon
Tote bag icon
Designs icon
Other products icon
GIFs
At a certain point of content creation the brand wanted to do some more interactive content such as GIFs, I hadn't previously worked with GIFs before so this was a challenge.
I used to draw a lot in my spare time and dabbled the tiniest bit with animation so I had a vague idea. These GIF projects were especially challenging as a lot of them were illustrated due to this I decided to do my workflow in Photoshop.
Since then I've been learning new techniques and slowly making more complicated compositions which you can see below where I mixed some video content with animation.mI still don't think making GIFs is my strongest skill however I've made progress and have a lot more working knowledge!
Packaging
I've been able to work on multiple packaging projects including our mailing bags for our large letter orders. I've designed all the packaging assets on the provided die cuts, accounting for bleed.
Since these projects I haven't had a lot more opportunities for some packaging projects however they are one of my favourite jobs to do.
I also make email content for the brand, which recently combine photos and bubble writing to stay fun. I've even automated my workflow by making a Photoshop template for the image making it easy and seamless. Using a variety of different styles as the brand has evolved, check out the archive here.