After announcing my week of favours, Mariann, Neil and Chris all made a request. Although I planned to choose just one, I decided to do attempt all three images. (although it was exhausting so I may not do multiple ones again)

The quality of these isn’t particularly good. I spent just over an hour in total doing all three. I’m also not a designer. The original favour was to find an image or maybe hack together a crude montage for a presentation. I didn’t realise people would ask for artwork. Ha. ;)

First off, Mariann asked me to create a cover for her up-coming book, Seriously Social. I’ve done two versions. I also included your twitter ID. That felt appropriate given the topic of your book. Note, I didn’t do these at print quality. But frankly I doubt you’d want to use these anyway ;)

Even though the idea was for it to look like a business book, the typeface is pretty horrible. So I tried a more fun one too:

Then, Neil asked for a new header for his blog, Only Dead Fish. I tried to keep the feel similar to your original design, Neil. I thought a type-based version might be cleaner. This graphic is the same dimensions as your current one, so you wouldn’t have to resize it at all.

Finally, Chris asked for a new avatar / profile picture made from stationary. Fortunately I still have sticky eyes from a pack I bought a while ago. This made my job easy. I stuck a post-it note in a hole punch and used it to make freckles too. In the top right you can see how it looks at 48×48:

This concludes #favour1.
I won’t be at all offended if none of you use these images. The whole point of this exercise is to give something back. One down, four to go :)

That was a very tiring lunch break.