Graphic Design Evolution (Teacup Thursday ~ BAB Takeover Week February 2021)

Hello friends! It is I, Teacup. Today, I will be sharing some of our graphic designs evolutions. Now, I am the resident designer here at BABF, but Diamond has also done a bit of designing. Everything was designed by one of us. Let’s get started.

Era 1: 2017 – The beginning

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In 2017, we’d just started BABF. Diamond wasn’t a super experienced blogger(despite 3 years of prior experience), so we didn’t have a lot of featured images or graphic designs. We had the button and Diamond’s signature. And…actually these have held up! While these are our most rudimentary designs, I do feel that simple is sometimes best. Also, the styles were very similar, using similar fonts and colors.

Era 2: 2017 – Photofunia

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Photofunia is a cool website where you can input text or a photo and you can customize it. We made a lot of signatures. While these aren’t my favorite, we still use them.

Era 3: 2018 – BABTW and Transparency

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During this era, Diamond was first starting out with some of our segments. There weren’t featured images in every post. The featured images that were there usually consisted of a photo, then a transparent rectangle taking up half the photo, then the text. Our current style is actually pretty similar, just a bit more refined.

Era 4: 2018 – Patterns

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During this period of time, featured images were slowly becoming more common in our posts. Unless it was a photoshoot, all of the featured images had this style, with a patterned background and transparent square.

Era 5: 2019 – Photography

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See, for this era, Diamond used a stock photo as a background. Other than that, it is very similar to the pattern era.

Era 6: 2019 – Christmas

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Admittedly, this era was very similar to era 5. However, Diamond did try to really make each image shine.

Era 7: 2020 – Cool Backgrounds

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Now, really these aren’t super different either. But, over time, Diamond and I have really refined our skills and therefore I feel that these designs look a bit better than the prior ones.

Era 8: 2020 – Christmas

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What really makes these final batch of images special is that Diamond took the background photo for each one! It really adds a nice touch.

I feel like we will continue to evolve as we keep blogging. We’ve had a good run so far, but I can’t wait to see where we’ll go…

Which era was your favorite? Tell me a bit about your designing style. I’d love to hear from you!