Hello everyone! Those of you who have been following my Illustrated Friday Wedding Charette will have a little surprise today, I am unveiling a spin-off charette that I am launching especially for small, creative, artisan or handmade businesses! This is great news for those of you who have been wanting to brand, remake or redesign a new or existing image …
Atelier Tuesday: The Journey of Our Love
Recently, I had the pleasure to get to know a wonderful bride, who told me a most romantic story of how her fiancee and her would travel every weekend to see each other across different cities. It was a story unique to them and she wanted me to create a wedding invitation suite that reflected the journey of their romance …
Illustrated Friday: Unusual Invitations for a Vintage Wedding Carnival
This entry comes from Jason, who needed some brainstorming help for an invitation suite for their vintage-carnival themed wedding. From their submission they seemed like such an interesting couple-they met at gastric bypass support group, dubbed themselves The Incredible Shrinking Couple and are considering having sideshow banners of it made for the wedding! The challenge was, what sort of invitations …
Atelier Tuesday: Sabaki Go Club
You might remember an Illustrated Friday feature sometime back about a Go Club logo, if not see the sketch idea here. I was requested to take the design further for an official club logo to be used for official events, branding items and stationery. Here is how it has progressed. I wanted to keep the original black and white, clean …
Illustrated Friday : Seed Packet Invitations
This week’s entry comes from environmentally-conscious Elizabeth who has been having trouble figuring out how to tie her invitations to her venue of a traditional wedding at a nature center as well as making sure her husband likes them too! The idea behind this invitation suite came about when I requested to see what Elizabeth likes or was inspired by. …
Inside the Yolk
Happy Monday Folks! Due to unforeseen circumstances (ah, the realities of life and work! )I had to reschedule last Friday’s Wedding Charette to this Friday. I received some really interesting submissions that I cannot wait to get working on, so my apologies to those who have been looking forward to it, I will make it worth the wait! I am …
Make Time by deLab
Here’s an early atelier post since I will be very busy for the next two days-I was approached by deLab to produce graphics for their April 8th LA Downtown Artwalk booth featuring cool stuff architects, designers, artists, illustrators are doing during this recession. Lots of talented, talented people, can’t wait to see the actual booths, so swing by if you …
Wooden Spools, a Necchi and Other Flea Market Finds
Today for Inspired Monday, I am taking you on a little adventure to another time, through the flea market finds I picked up over the weekend. There were some great deals, particularly a Necchi Lycia sewing machine made in Italy in the 1960’s, complete with accessories and tools! (will post about this another time.) I love good craftsmanship and finding …
Illustrated Friday: Grateful Dead-inspired Wedding
This submission is from Marisa who wants to surprise her good friend Julie with a Grateful-Dead musically inspired wedding invitation suite idea. The wedding will be themed around a music festival with food and music setting the tone, and the bridesmaids will be wearing black. They have been having some difficulty trying to figure out how to design their invitations …
Atelier Thursday: Sketchy Logos
A tribute to St Patrick’s Day! Short post today folks, expecting a guest in town and I have lots of tasks to complete before the weekend! Wanted to show you a little lightbulb from recently. I have been working with Janine of Green Wave, (mentioned here) and a recent project was for a vectorized one-color version of their color logo …