Carrie's Closet Business Card- New and Improved!

 

I was so excited to get back in touch with Carrie of Carrie's Closet! This is one of the first projects we worked on together. I came up with the idea of giving the card a little more modern and unique look by embossing the logo. Carrie was thrilled with the idea and I was thrilled with the results! I love it! This is a card you won't throw out!

DIY CMYK Engagement Thank You Cards

To celebrate my 5th wedding anniversary, I thought I would blog about some of the various DIY projects. This one is the engagement thank you cards we sent out. Call me a design dork- Yes my wedding colors were CMYK! Besides them being the print colors, they are just really pretty together! So since they are printing colors what better way to showcase them then with a stamp?! I found a pretty thank you stamp and stamped them slightly offset from each other, making sure black was last. Then on the envelope I repeated the same concept with a cute engagement ring stamp.

Carrie's Personal Business Card

Great clients don't come bye that often. I met Carrie when I was fresh out of college and it has been a great partnership ever since!

Butterfly Baby Shower Invitation

This is a project I just finished, a Butterfly Baby Shower invitation. Apparently butterfly inspired showers are really popular now. When google-ing it several invitations were found. Anyways I was going for a very pretty and girly look that was simple and elegant. The color palette was pink and purple.

The Evolution of NY Foodgasm's Logo

This takes a lot of courage of me: to post the very beginning phase until the end. I am almost embarrassed of the first couple. EEK! What a difference. Ohhhh did I mention this was in the works for like 3 months. Why is that---I am my worst client!

Branding my NY Foodgasm Blog

Totally psyched that I finally came up with a good direction for the branding of my food blog NY FOODGASM. It is a big relief! But I am hoping people can tell what I am trying to communicate. What do you see in this logo?

It's intention is to communicate food and sex in a fun way. To do this I created a logo that looks like a neon XXX peep show sign to visualize both sex and NY. I also used a font the reminded me of license plates and signs in NY.

Not final quite yet, now I need to complete a layout for this bad boy! Stay tuned!

Also---let me know what you think! I would love any comments at all!

Design Ideas for a Company Running Team T-shirt

It is always good to stay fresh and creative. That is why I didn't think twice before accepting the challenge of designing a company running team t-shirt. This could have turned out better (there are some things I would still like to tweak), but it was due and I wanted to at least submit something. It gave me the chance to get the creativity flowing again. Creativity is a river in that it does flow continuously (if it's in your nature), but to be able to manipulate it at will is a skill that designers must build. It is a skill that I must always keep sharp.

Words to live by!

I recently created this for my other blog on weight loss. Good words to live bye though!  The most successful people failed MANY times in their careers before they saw any signs of hope. It is only through these failures they found their way to success, that is what I hope for myself!

More Baby Onesies

"Boobies: Breakfast of Champions"

A new tradition has been born: When a friend is expecting I design them fun custom onesies.  These were for my good friends from college Megan.  All onesies are special and distinct to the couple.  Since she will breastfeed, I made the "Boobies: Breakfast of Champions".  She also happens to be an amazing photographer so I created the "Mamarazzi" design.  Her husband used to have a handlebar mustache and is a chef, so "Mustache in Training" and "Sous Chef" are dedicated to him.  Lastly in honor of their dog I created "My Loyal Companion".

If you would like to commission me to make custom onesies contact me.

"Mustache in Training"

"Mamarazzi"

"My Loyal Companion"

"Sous Chef"

Signs of the Times: Comparing and Contrasting The Vietnam War to The War on Terror Pt.1

The below are examples of the signs I created that illustrated this generation's social response to The War on Terror. The Artist statement above explains it all. This is one of my favorite projects EVER! It combines humor, simplicity of design and packs a political punch, ENJOY!

Next up: the social response to The Vietman War...

Jewelry Design: A sample of some of my first pieces

A chunky earthy turquoise necklace I made for a friend.

So graphic design is not my only interest, I have also really enjoyed jewelry making and design. Check out some of these pictures below. I hope to start once again, but now my dwelling has taken priority over that.

Double strand freshwater pearl bridal necklace

Close-up of the clasp for the Bridal necklace

Graduated Snowflake Obsidian necklace, I love!

Bracelet that matches the earthy necklace

Earrings I made for a bride