Freelance: Website

I recently completed work for my client, Perfect Princess Parties, and am excited to announce that I am now now moving forward on her website. Here's an example of some of the projects I did for this fun company...a flyer and business card (I also did a really cute brochure which is not pictured above).

Side projects

Lots of freelance this coming week, thank goodness! I have recently gone from a double income household to a single income and am finding it difficult to survive on just my salary alone, so I am incredibly grateful for the current and upcoming side projects I will be working on.

One of the things I am currently doing is this logo revamp for Fiji Water (above). They asked me to ‘crest’ their logo to tie in to the theme of the event they are sponsoring - The Palm’s (Playboy) Midsummer Nights Dream Party. Such a fun project!

Wedding Invitation

These photobooth themed invites are fabulous by Cynthia Ferguson! In fact, all of her designs are quite wonderful.

{{via Oh Happy Day}}

Simple Signage

What a lovely storefront sign for Terrain at Styer’s.

{{via Design Philadelphia}}

Logo Laugh

Stumbled upon this logo design and had quite a giggle over it. Read the story behind it HERE. Oh, but look at the logo sideways first.

I am sooo bad! :-)

Beautiful Design

Beautiful work (identity, custom typography, stationery & poster) by Ben Atkins for Highgate Bar & Kitchen in London.

Flying Ace Photoshoot

My friend, Meghan agreed to be my model today for a little design project I'm doing. Here is a sneak peak. Isn't Meghan beautiful?

{{Full set of images here}}

Illustrations

I found these old illustrations tonight that I did a few years ago that were part of a series I did based on fashion photographs. I remember having so much fun doing these! Maybe I should give it another go one of these days!

BAND ID

"BAND ID – The Ultimate Book of Band Logos" looks like one heck of a cool book!

Workin' Girl

Working lots of late nights lately, so I'm not very inspired when I get home to blog. Please forgive me! I will be back to normal once I get a few of the tradeshow campaigns I'm working on completed. One of them was finished today. So many details and pieces...my brain is fried, but relieved that everything in that campaign has been sent to print. Maybe I'll get some pictures to share of it next week!

Hope your week is off to a great start!

Photoshop Disasters

I have been looking for this old example of bad photoshopping forever! Thanks to swissmiss and Photoshop Disasters, I have found it once again! How horrified do you think the VS designer was when this little beauty went to print?

Swiss Francs

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Originally uploaded by sfraz71

Those Swiss sure do know good design! Love their design sensibilities over there! Their money is a great example! Craig brought a whole grip of foreign currency home from his European tour.

P.S. I see an optical illusion on the example above. The gentleman's eyes appear to be wide open to me, which would give him quite a funny expression. Obviously I am mistaking his eyelids for the whites of his eyes!

{{view full set of foreign currency photos here}}

Neutra House Numbers

I've long admired the Neutra House Numbers at DWR. In fact, I've been a fan of all things Neutra for many, many years now.

An oldie but goodie

Boy, is this ever so relevant for most designers dealing with Marketing teams that want to cram copy in every nook an cranny.

Holley Project

Another cool find from the Daniel Eatock website is this cool self portrait project.

Daniel's instructions:

Write a short text about yourself (300 words min / 500 words max) include interests, likes, dislikes, future plans etc.

Using black ink make a careful print from your thumb. Enlarged your black and white thumb print to approximately the size of your face.

Using a clean sheet of A3 paper, handwrite your text following the contour lines from your thumb print (you can use tracing paper, or thin copy paper)

Final result: You should have a combination of your own words, in your handwriting, in the pattern of your finger print forming a personal self portrait.

Email your finished portrait to daniel (at) eatock (dot) com

Daniel Eatock

I'm crazy about this old (2002) billboard campaign Daniel Eatock created for Channel 4 in London, England. He essentially created an art exhibit around the city by displaying a differnt Warhol piece in different areas. A guide was sent out in newspapers as an insert listing the different locations with a stylized map.

I also enjoyed this video of Daniel speaking in 2003. Loved the balancing act in the beginning and the spotlight on the red chair throughout the lecture.

Dreaming of Adobe

Adobe CS3 Boxes
Originally uploaded by Wolfgang Bartelme

Oh, how I wish the Creative Suite wasn't so expensive. I'm hesitating hardcore at installing Windows on my iMac so I can install my design programs. It's time for an upgrade regardless, as I am still on Photoshop 7! But, I just can't bring myself to put any of it on my new computer! What's the point of having a Mac if you're just going to be in a Windows environment, ya know? The Creative Suite is like $1800 though!!! How the hell is everybody else able to buy this? Oh, woe is me.

**Update: I now have CS2! Now I can design much more efficiently!

PRADA -Trembled Blossoms

Interesting video, Trembled Blossoms, for Prada by James Jean. An element of evil looms but beautiful nonetheless. At one point, it goes to show, all a woman really needs is one amazing pair of shoes!

Paul Rand

Paul Rand came up in conversation today at work and then I saw this cool video posted by the super amazing, always in the know, Kelly of Design Crush. Thanks Kelly!

Sex and Typography?!

Interesting combination! My interest has most definitely been picqued, only not by the title so much as the subject matter. The book, "Sex and Typography" is about the life and times of the creator of the James Bond title sequences, one of the early 'rockstar' designers, Robert Brownjohn.