I really love the purple head silhouette she created for this. Chef’s kiss, as we’d say.

So, the reason I leave the visual stuff to her is the same reason she leaves the wordy bits to me: because that’s what I’m good at and enjoy doing.

We each bring our experience and passions to Welcome Change Media as we forge ahead making content that’s important to us, and also connecting with clients whose message we dig and see value in amplifying.

And I’m not going to say I’ve always been a willing participant in this public display of communication thing, oh no I’m not! As Louise at times has dragged me kicking and screaming into different realms of content making with a “let’s make this” or “I want to do that” or “maybe we could have a go at-“

AAAARRRRGHHHH! “We just need to focus on something and bring in some clients,” I would say, and that’s true, but we are *cough* content makers after all.

We’ve all heard the story of the plumber with the leaky pipes (if you haven’t, it goes something like it’s always the plumber who’s got the leaky pipes suggesting we always attend to our own things last, despite having those skills and using them to help others). OK. Got that out of the way.

So, after what has probably felt like an eternity of Louise saying “let’s make some content” and me going “but clients” I can only imagine Louise feels like she’s entered some happy unicorn level of this game where Andy’s now really into this content making thing, because he’s not gonna be a laughing stock and if he is, the people laughing at him aren’t important anyway.

As I started writing posts and actually posting them, Louise smiled, and occasionally flinched as she saw the images I paired with them as the feature images. While writing my blog post “Andy Made A Porno” I thought to myself you know what, this image I’ve snapped would really look much better if it had a frame, or some kind of branding attached to it. I know! I’ll make one in Canva now I’ve made friends with it by making some slides for my uni presentation!

I wanted it to fit in with the brand Louise had done such a wow of a job on with my website. So off I went with my creative spirit in toe.

But you’ll remember I started this post saying something like I’m not the one with the visual eye and Louise is the one who is better at that than me, or some such thing. Anyway, I broke the cardinal branding sin we’ve all done in the office that triggers our flappy colleague into “who did this?” mode. I headed for Canva and approximated a colour for a frame’s border from the colour on my website, then I thought this really needs an element to tie it in so I snipped something from the home page, yes I did!

And now, without any further ado, may I present Andy’s version of an Instagram placard in keeping with my brand: