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}

jackie hall designs

This weekend I finished up the website for a good designer friend of mine, Jackie Hall. Jackie's graduating from the Circus in less than 2 weeks and moving to Jacksonville. Her work is great. Enjoy.

I did the Flash animation on the homepage using her identity and used Dreamweaver + SimpleViewer to set up the portfolio sections.


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refrigerator art + postcards

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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.

"tanks" thank you cards

Last Saturday Pete & Gloria threw KC & I an awesome shower. We had a great time, and I really loved seeing everyone together. I designed (and wrote the line, yesssss) these super-precious thank you cards.

Special thank to Pete & Glo. They have taken such great care of KC & I during our entire engagement. We love them so much, and they really know how to throw a sweet party.

and,  just for good measure, here's a picture of my hot hubbie-to-be playing with our new toys:

we are black sheep

jonathan's old fashioned lemonade

I've always had a secret desire to use the Zebrawood font, but was never able to bring myself to use it in school. So when J-Dawg asked me to help him with the sign for his lemonade stand, I jumped on the opportunity to try to do something cool with it.

It was a good memorial day.