Serendib Kitchen

I made up little packets of apology postcards and stickers to go out with these book / curry powder orders. Sorry they took a few weeks longer than normal, folks. The semester fell on me like a freight train, but I’m getting up now. Whew.

Totally unnecessary — that book was paid for by another generous soul. But that’s not going to keep me from enjoying the flowers. I think I’m going to take them up to Kavi’s school-at-home desk tomorrow, so she can enjoy them for this week of e-learning.

(I would give Anand a bouquet for his school desk too, but the odds are very high that he would knock it over and spill water everywhere. He has a nice succulent, though, in a Pokemon-themed Bulbusaur planter.)

I think it looks pretty good! I could put this on a sticker that I’d use to seal a marshmallow package, or on a business card.

The colors are taken from Feast — we’re not wedded to them, but will probably go with something along these lines. Though could be convinced otherwise, maybe.

We’ve taken design as far as we can go, so keeping these basic elements, what might we do to improve it?

(Kavi says you should be nice to her in your critique. Feel free to be mean to me, though. Right now we are debating whether it’s tilted a little to the right or not. I think it is. :-))

Kavi and I spent a while this evening working on logo design for Serendib Press. It was a collaboration, but she did most of the actual work!

• the first sketch is hers, based on me talking about what I wanted to be in the image
• the second is mine — I wanted to try filling out the scene a little, straighten the edges, etc.
• the third is where Kavi took over, and I just served as the client, giving her suggestions — I can do some of the things she can do in Procreate, but not a lot of it, and she’s much much faster
• the fourth is after we took out the outside border so we could straighten it, and added a window for balance, and gave the stars more presence, like steam rising out of the kettle
• the fifth is we started playing with color, using the colors on the cover of Feast as a jumping off point, for cohesion

I’m going to ask for critique in the next post, so we can iterate a little further, but for this post, I wanted to show the collaboration process. And also brag on my kid a bit.

I told Kavi she’s getting paid for her work on this. What do you think a 13-year-old logo designer should get — same as adult? A percentage? Inquiring minds want to know!

a) If you order any print book (paperback or hardcover) today or tomorrow, you’ll get:

– total value $15

b) LOCALS-ONLY (because it’s too expensive / complicated to deal with shipping otherwise):

– individual soaps, bath salts, or set of 3 marshmallows ($5) — comment below to order these for porch pick-up, and I’ll confirm here.

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Just comment here on which soap / salts you want, so I can track and confirm I still have enough, and then I’ll send you to the Shopify site to place the order, or arrange local payment / pickup.

Order two books, you get to pick out two bath treats, etc.

Until Sunday night, or while supplies last.

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Books available:

(please note if you’d like books signed and/or dedicated to someone)

Soaps:

Veggie scent: Melbourne Calling (eucalyptus, mint, avocado)

– veggie seed packets: peas (4 left)

Flower scent: Asclepius in the Garden (naiouli, eucalyptus, and mandarin)

– orange creamsicle (set of 2 small) (3 left)

Bath Salts (enough for 3 baths):

– passionfruit & rose (8 left)

Mulled Apple Cider Marshmallows, sets of 3 (30 left)