projects for a non-profit

Crescent Project in Indianapolis, IN, is a non-profit ministry reaching out to Muslims in the US and overseas. They hold conferences and the brochure below serves as advertising and registration for their events. Blank spaces on the outside give them the ability to use a laser printer to add in dates, times, locations, and costs for each individual conference.
[printed full color, finished size 3 1/2"x8 1/2", 14"x8 1/2" roll fold with 4 panels]

Similarly, the poster below was used to advertise the conferences with blank space at the bottom to add the specifics.
[printed full color, finished size 11"x17"]

They also attend trade shows and needed a display board as a backdrop for their booth. For this installation, the banner rolls up like a window shade for transportation and has a stand, similar to elementary school movie projector screens, to make it free standing when unrolled.
[printed full color, finished size 90"x90"]

They participated in a conference called Oasis. From an existing brochure, I developed a website that was used for information and registration leading up to the conference in 2003.

when Irish eyes are smiling...

A Cincinnati area Irish pub called Dingle House Pub & Grub has called upon me for several advertising projects hoping to create a common look to represent them using their existing logo. The first image below shows 3 different flyers distributed to local hotels and businesses. The center flyer is also used at the pub for a lunch menu.
[printed on laser printer, finished size 5 1/2"x8 1/2"]

They also run ads in the local newspaper and in hotel publications.[printed full color, finished sizes 3 1 ⁄ 2"x5", 3 1 ⁄ 4"x3 3 ⁄ 4", and 4 5 ⁄ 8"x2 3 ⁄ 8"]

Their most recent event, still going on now, is for the horse racing triple crown events. The banners below are hanging in the windows of the pub. We know there will not be a triple crown winner this year, the Kentucky Derby winner did not win the Preakness. The Belmont Stakes should still be an exciting race, and hopefully the pub will be full of people watching the race on their flat screens (and eating and drinking).[printed full color, finished sizes 3'x 5', and 6'x4']

manatee fun

Sometimes work that is less serious can be a lot of fun. I enjoyed doing work for an independently-owned children's book store. I did not create this logo but the client did not have appropriate artwork. My first task was to redraw the manatee and figure out the fonts and colors from a small jpeg and the original cut paper art of the manatee.


Once the vector art (the kind of art that can be made as large as you want and still look good, see banner and awnings below) was finished, my next task was to spin off a logo for their new companion business, a coffee shop called the decafé, and a logo representing the bookstore and coffee shop together.


To announce the new coffee shop and introduce the logo, a large banner was hung in front of the coffee shop location.


Once the coffee shop opened, an existing awning over the bookstore (the client was not happy with the artwork) was replaced using the vector art and a companion piece was made for the door to the cafe.


More variations of the manatee were developed to suit other needs, some print and some web (that will come in a future post).