A friend asked me to create a baby shower invitation for her. I began by looking for examples of similar work that I liked (see top images). I liked the vibrant colours, simplistic illustrations, handwritten typography styles and also the striking black outlines on the first illustration. Based on my inspiration, I created this image of a baby (named 'mini Nicky', the mother's name), using illustrator and played around with different ways of laying out the image and text. I chose a background of pink and blue because the gender of the baby is not known. In the end we chose to use the 4th design (bottom, right) because it was the simplest of the designs and perhaps the most modern.