Cheap branding mistakes – aka why Fiverr or hiring your cousin sucks as a branding plan, and why hiring a pro is worth the investment You need a logo, so you make one in Canva. Or your cousin is “good at art.” Or you hire someone on Fiverr for $20 and hope for the best. "We need a logo, here's a logo. Done, check, moving on." And honestly? I get it. When you’re starting out, you just need something. A placeholder logo. A basic website. Proof that your idea exists. But what people think...
5 months ago • 3 min read
Hey you, It's been a long while since I got around sending emails, and my apologies for appearing into your inbox like this without warning! Quick recap: I'm Lilli, a packaging and branding designer. If you're on this list, you might remember me as a sustainable cannabis packaging designer, but nowadays I'm more of a food & beauty packaging and branding designer, for small to medium CPG companies. Hi! Nice to reconnect, apologies for not being more consistent in my correspondence. Here's why...
6 months ago • 2 min read
Hey there! It's been a little while, hasn't it?! Ach, LIFE. Gets in the way of things. This time it was really work that got in the way – I'll always put client work first, so my own stuff, even the ones I'm passionate about, sometimes take a little back burner status. That's what happened to version 1.0 of the edibles packaging course I was working on, with the working title Impeccable Edibles. Now called Unwrapping Edibles. (because I'm a sucker for a tasty pun.) But I'm back, baybeee! And...
over 2 years ago • 1 min read