cole-gibadlo wedding invitations

i created these invitations for my bff's wedding in july. steph and her hubbie-to-be call each other "bug". so naturally their wedding invites feature (custom) illustrations of a grasshopper (him) and a lightning bug (her). they're getting married out on her parent's property at night under the stars. it's going to be ah-mazing and i'm so glad i get to be a part of it.

thank you cards

I used some black and whites portraits from the wedding and printed the design in fun bright colors. They don't match the rest of the style I used for wedding stuff, except in the colors of the cards & envelopes.

Oh wait. You didn't get yours? It's coming. We're busy. And slow.

Thanks to KC for the photos.

wedding favors : peach salsa

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I designed and printed the custom wrappers for the jars. 

Assembled with the help of my girls!

Thanks to KC for the photos.

signs and programs

Instead of programs we had church style fans. I think the guests appreciated them, sitting in the middle of a field in the august sun. I designed them in the same style as the invitations with, my fave, 2 sheep at the top.

KC, Pete, and I made these signs for the wedding. After this photo was taken, the girls and I attached a bunch of white balloons to it so that it looked like I was holding them.

Thanks to Kyle Hale for the 1st & 3rd photos and KC for the middle shot.

invitations

More info about the process here.

Thanks to KC for the photos.

formally yours : sneak peak

i'm working on a site and some rebranding for my friends at formally yours, where i got my fabulous wedding dress. 

here's a sneak peak of the some of the concept boards and rebranding that i presented last night.

{above: the new logo}

rabbit pillows

I drew this jumping rabbit back in grad school for the Dainties project, and my talented mama repurposed the artwork quite nicely in this super cute pillow.

our wedding invitations

I almost forgot the agony of creating these until I started sorting through them. We don't have any formal shots of the finished product yet, but here's evidence that we made them ourselves.

It's a little booklet with a faux bois cover (see our faces in the knot?) Inside is the formal invitation, an illustrated map to the location in monroe, and response card postcards. out-of-towners got another postcard attached to information about hotels and the rehearsal dinner cookout. And with all that being said, I promise more and better photos.

Designed/illustrated by me, letterpressed by KC & me at Praxium Press with Mr. Berwyn Hung's help. Plates made by Owosso Graphic Arts. Paper from Mac Papers and Paper Source. Tied, stuffed, and stamped by my family.

anthropologie's "adorn"

if you know me, clearly anthropologie is one of my influences. i don't know a designer that doesn't love the the catalogs, merchandise and in-store experiences. their site is pretty, but the content, not the bones is what really makes it pop.

so when i saw this post on oh joy! today, i got really excited. and for good reason: 5 new sections devoted to accessories. each has a completely different look, navigation, layout. but they are all super cool.

i love that their team branched out to try something new. to experiment with fun stuff. design that really gets the user to interact with the merchandise.

{above: video of the model wearing each featured piece}

{above: zoom in to examine each piece as carefully as you could want}

{above: dance steps animate through the shoe slides}

{above: slide horizontally through an illustrated world built around the features}


{above: accessories interact with the mouse as you hover over/near them}

refrigerator art + postcards

{you can click the photos to view them large}

After a two month hiatus, I've been eager to post up some of the stuff I've been working on. This was a quick project a did couple months ago for some long-time friends of mine. Katie, Kaylee, and Laura spent their summer overseas doing mission work and wanted a postcard to send to their supporters. You can check out their stories and photos Katie and Kaylee's blogs.

I wish I could say I drew that cat on the fridge, but it was magnificently illustrated by one Jonathan Hanks.