flower illustrations

I have enjoyed working on some illustrations lately of my new favorite subject matter, flowers from my garden. The daffodils are actually from a neighbor's yard but I hope to remedy that for next spring.

snowdrops

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design making life easier

I am a very organized person and appreciate anything that can make my life easier. Several years ago I developed a grocery store list. It contains the items I regularly buy and it is organized by where they're located in the store where I shop and how I go through the store. Each time I move and change stores the list gets tweaked. Extra spaces under each category leave room to write in additional items.

To save on paper and toner, each letter size sheet fits 3 lists. To save on time, there are 2 cut lines to follow with a pair of scissors (less exact but quicker than a ruler and x-acto, who cares if your shopping list has crooked edges). Along with being a list of what to buy at the store, it is also a check list of what to look for in the pantry or fridge before I go to the store. There's nothing worse than getting back from the store and realizing you are out of something.

the uniform people

I have been lucky enough to work on a couple catalogs for Cintas...you know, the uniform people. The first image below is a Best Seller catalog mailed this spring. It is just what it sounds like, the best selling products from a much larger catalog mailed earlier this year.
[printed full color, finished size 8 3/8"x10"]

The second catalog is for a specific customer, Ice Mountain, who orders uniforms for all their employees from Cintas. This catalog features the specific items and colors Ice Mountain chose from the wide offerings of Cintas. It might not be evident in the photos below, but every shirt pictured needed to have an Ice Mountain logo stripped in. There was a lot of image work involved.
[printed full color, finished size 8 1/2"x11"]

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.

capitalizing on today's technology

How many of you are on the mailing list for a catalog or store or other business? It's a very cost-effective way to reach a lot of people. It is also environmentally-friendly, no consumables. The newsletters below could be coming to an in-box near you. On the left is Dingle House Pub & Grub and on the right is Towne Centre Square, the building where the pub is located along with other retail and business tenants.
Other projects for Towne Centre Square included a sales brochure, sent to prospective tenants, and business cards for the building investors, a group called Towne Centre Square Partners.
[printed full color, brochure 8 1/2"x11", card 3 1/2"x2"]

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']

churches also need brochures

Low budget does not necessarily equal low quality. For a place like CHPC that needed small quantities of many different brochures for their many different events and activities, it made sense to purchase the equipment (color laser printers, folding machine, and industrial paper cutter) to produce projects in-house. The 3 8 1/2"x11" tri-fold brochures below were printed and folded on-site.

I mentioned I worked at 2 different churches. The second was Vineyard Community Church. One project from my time there was a welcome brochure featuring basic information about the church for new visitors. The Vineyard also produced some projects in-house but this one was professionally printed.

[printed full color, finished size 4 2/3"x8 1/2"]