If you weren’t watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries when it first aired, you were seriously missing out. But luckily, the whole show is still up on their YouTube channel for you to enjoy in the entirety. If you didn’t know, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a modern, vlog-style adaption of Pride and Prejudice, and I got to do some design work for their merchandise. It’s really exciting for me to be even a small part of the Lizzie Bennet world, since I was a huge fan of the show, watching each episode as soon as it was posted at 9:00 every Monday and Thursday morning. Keep reading to learn more about everything I designed for them!
The first thing I designed was the Everyone Deserves Tea mug. That line was first said in Episode 87: An Understanding, and it got such a good response that Hank Green, who produced the show, messaged me the next day asking me to create a mug design for it.
Here you can see my progression through the stages of the design. This was all done in the span of about two days, so it’s not the most thought-out meaning-filled design ever, but I think it came out really cute and I’m really happy with it. It was also the first time I got to test out the fonts Thirsty Rough and Trend Ornaments, which I’m just obsessed with now.
The design was also used in the Lizzie Bennet button pack, which you can get on DFTBA as well.
Earlier in the year Hank had also messaged me about making some Lizzie Bennet merchandise of my own design, and I had the idea to create a character flowchart inspired by this one from Scott Pilgrim. There were enough interlocking characters and relationships that I thought it would turn out really well, and after a lot of rearranging elements like puzzle pieces, it all fit together in the end. It’s meant to live in the middle of the series’ timeline, when Lizzie still hates Darcy, though it was actually released towards the end when they fall in love, so I got a bit of flack for the “loathes and despises” arrow. But overall I’m really happy with the final design, and you can get it as an 18×24 poster from DFTBA.
If you kept up with the Lizzie Bennet Kickstarter, you may have seen that I’m currently designing a Lizzie Bennet edition of the book Pride and Prejudice. This will be a printed, physical book with an introduction by Hank Green, and while we’re still in the midst of designing it, you can get a little sneak peak of it up above (no guarantees the design won’t change from that though). Stay tuned, because when it’s actually released, I’ll definitely put up another blog post all about it. In the meantime, check out the Lizzie Bennet shop on DFTBA if you want to buy anything I showed up above, and check out the new spin-off series Welcome to Sanditon, starring the character GiGi Darcy!
