Liz Harry’s designs are bright, cheery, and all-around wonderful. Based in Liverpool, where she works from her home office surrounded by her three kids, she creates original lettering and characters for greeting cards, prints, and kids’ products. With a love of hand-drawn type and colorful designs, her creations include accessories, greeting cards, and homewares, most of which are sold through her delightful Etsy store.
“I’ve been working in the creative industries for many years, but my greeting cards and pin designs are a recent side hustle that gives me a chance to express myself freely without working to brief,” Harry explained in an interview with the Printed blog. Indeed, her rich experience expands over 15 years, in which she’s worked primarily for the music industry, mainly designing for music-based clients, before running her own design company and then working as a freelancer.
“I’ve always loved the idea of owning a shop since I was young and surrounding myself with beautiful things!” she admits. “When I started creating my greeting cards I decided to setup an Etsy shop, which has been developing since. Pins and jewelry were a natural progression for me, I’ve always dabbled with jewelry making but never taken it any further until a friend introduced me to a company making enamel pins – The resurgence in enamel pin designs over the last five years hadn’t gone unnoticed by me and I decided to make one!”
With a background in the music industry, a lot of her designs are music-related. “Even when I was in uni a lot of my images where always about song lyrics or influenced by a particular band or song,” she says, “but I also love films, specifically musicals – I know they’re very outdated, but looking beyond that they’re so warm, hopeful and full of glorious technicolor!”
Take a look at some of her vibrant designs in the gallery below:
