Rainwater tank signage. A clear compact sign

Have you ever noticed the big ugly tank water signs in peoples front gardens.
I did and really didn't like the look of them. The reason for that is that they completely detract from the garden itself. You end up basically looking at the sign and miss the garden all together.

Girling Design has created a small range of versatile screw on signs and adhesive labels to bring the focus back to the garden.

For one - our signs are smaller but clearly marked.










Our focus is on manufacturing simple, professional and visible tank water signage to compliment attractive tank watered gardens."
Now available in the shop

Art and illustration a success

After several years of working on the illustrative side of Girling Design, we have presented our work in their own spaces.
Printspace and Otispepper have their own blog environments and share consistencies of layout. Our work is kept separate within the blogs and the etsy stores to enable a clearer snapshot of style. Both brands are are the brainchild of both Mara and Nicholas Girling.
Click here to learn more.

Introducing Bandfinder

Designed by Girling Design - bandfinder has been specifically designed to rock.
bandfinder is a publicity tool for bands and venues. As long as each are members, they can publicise their gig on the home page and on their own profile pages.
A CMS was custom developed to manage new members and their performances. The site also allows different groups to login and edit their own content.
Venues can request bands and bands can confirm requests from venues via the member admin areas of the site.
During the beta testing for this site, it's free advertising. If you know of a band in Melbourne Australia - they need to become part of the community. Best thing would be to lock-in their name.

everyone has them

There is no lack of great ideas, but there is a shortage of people willing to implement them.

Good old fax machine

Here’s part of a fax that a client of ours sent me to show the image in grey scale. It is of a design that I created in full colour. I like the way it looks as a fax and thought that I would share with you. It has a great tonal range still.

Giclee Prints onto A4 paper

Title: Black suit, black hat, black cat love

Title: Love the rain drops

There are a group of illustrations that I have been working on over the last month or so. The idea is to explore a number of different creative materials to see if a style still comes through. In the past I have attempted to avoid having a recognisable style in the art I produce. For the first time I am purposefully exploring a natural style with no particular forced intent. It’s an interesting process and a good battle is going on. Hopefully something inspiring comes of it.

Are you selling or informing

You might have heard people say, 'your website can sell for you while you sleep'. I have said and have heard this many times but it's important to consider this statement for a moment.
It doesn't mean that all web sites are trying to sell something. And if they are, it doesn't mean that they are actually doing it well.
The key to the statement is quite blunt and simple. In all of your information and imagery about your business - Don't forget to sell.
People who visit product and service web sites want your sales pitch more than they want your bio. And when they are sold on your offering, they want to know what the next steps are. There are many sites that should be selling but forget about selling. They flood the viewer with information.
Obviously we all need information to be able to make a decision. I'm indicating here that on a web site, we should aim to get to the sales pitch sooner than later. We should ask questions that make the reader think rather than just read.