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Sesatha Invitation Card Design

Nadee — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:35:48 +0000

An invitation card design based on the traditional Sri Lankan Sesatha; made entirely on Illustrator and later rasterized for production. This was done for my good friend Hasitha for his wedding and homecoming; two invitation cards based on the same design. Since the norm amongst Sri Lankans to have two cards for the two events with similar designs and Hasitha followed a very traditional theme for his wedding; he had the Sesatha card design in his mind from the very beginning. It also integrated well with the other elements.

It took me about three months to complete the design. This is entirely done in Illustrator and has no raster elements to bleed. The base for the card was done in wood and painted to glue to the two sides of the card. The card flip opened to show the invitation text inside the fold.

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Inspiration

I looked at many Sesatha designs before attempting to do one on my own. Most real designs were not eye-catching and the elements that made the Sesatha looked oddly put together. Then the design on the 2000 rupee note caught my attention and this was heavily inspired by that.

Mississippi Blues 2005 Poster

Nadee — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:52:36 +0000

This poster was also done for the U.S. Embassy Sri Lanka Colombo. The requirements were to create a poster that characterizes the artist, rhythm and blues and the atmosphere. The standard 17×22’ sized poster was done in two variants for the two venues: Colombo and Male. The poster here shown is the one that was done for Male. Please note that this work in copyrighted.

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BilliTones 2005 Sri Lanka Tour Posters

Nadee — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:40:38 +0000

BilliTones 2005 Sri Lanka Tour Posters were done for the U.S. Embassy Sri Lanka, Colombo. Two versions of this poster designed: a standard 17×22′ version and a 36×24′ version. The portrait version was done mainly for noticeboards and other places where as the landscape version was done for places where more room is available for the display. See the links below for the two sizes in a larger scale. Please note that this work is copyrighted.

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BilliTones 2005 Poster (36×24′)
BilliTones 2005 Poster (17×22′)

More Details

Project Name: BilliTones 2005 Sri Lanka Tour Posters
Date Created: 2005
Project Type: Freelance
Duration: 2 weeks
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
Delivery: Flattened Artwork

AMDCCI Website

Nadee — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:50:26 +0000

www.amdcci.org (offline) was a simple website project done for the Ampara District Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The website was designed by Ulead PhotoImpct and hosted only a few static web pages. The site played a major role in providing information related to the damages caused by the Tsunami to the Ampara district. Since the site is currently offline, only screenshots are shown here from the local copy.

Note: the color theme of the website was chosen by the client.

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More Details

Project Name: AMDCCI.org Website
Date Created: 2003
Project Type: Freelance
Duration: 1 month
Software: Ulead PhotoImpact, Adobe Dreamweaver (then Macromedia Dreamweaver)
Delivery: HTML source files and related images

nStation MMP

Nadee — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:18:09 +0000

nStation Multimedia Player skin is my very first (serious) software GUI design. I made this as a ‘skin’ for my own software MP3 player. This was designed during that period of time where the Sonique player impressed everyone with their skinning abilities. The software was written in Visual Basic 5 and then popular MP3Play OCX was used to do the MP3 playing. I was a Ulead PhotoImpact user back then and this skin is done entirely in Ulead mastery.

Screenshot

The following image is a screenshot of the main player and playlist.