“How do you draw sheer joy?” That wonderfully moving line came from Joseph, the obviously besotted groom of the wedding pair Joseph and Melanie from England. Their touching submission noted how they are halfway into their lives and about to begin a brand new chapter of it! Melanie, the bride-to-be was also most inspired by the idea of little booklet-type …
Design Charette: Sweet Pickin’s!
Back-to-back charettes today and tomorrow, a special treat to my followers to make up for a quiet last week! This first design charette challenge comes from Erin of Sweet Pickin’s, a brand-new line of cute hand-made and up-cycled goodies which include babywear, jewelry and other fun hand-sewn gifts. Erin lives on a farm and her brand name is a play …
Atelier Tuesday: Part 1: Prelude to a 1930’s Jazz Bayside Wedding
The Scene: Creamy laces, decadent silks, gorgeous dyed feathers, pin-curls and bobbed hair, lanterns, pearls, big band jazz, the virgin flush of big screen entertainment, rustic country-side, beautiful east coast bay location…. A little sneak preview today, some test print outs for an invitation set I’m making for a 1930’s Jazz-Meets-Country garden wedding by the bay. This is the first …
Unveiling the New Design Charette for Illustrated Friday!
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. …
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 …
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 …