Archive for the ‘graphic design’ Category

dolce banners – UPDATE

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Here’s the one she went with.

With Lauren’s biz cards happily in the mail to her – I got to work on the banner for the top of her website. Also – check out her recent cakes for a few baby showers. She is doing great work. Hire her!

dolce designs

Monday, February 1st, 2010

my good friend, and fellow foodie, Lauren has started to get some business doing cakes, and cake decorations, and the like. The girl is a whiz with sugar. Here’s her biz card look…

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first time for a sign

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

a logo i designed for Filter was made into a beautiful sign for the coffee shop. i’m so proud!

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ho ho ho!

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

somehow its that time of the year already. the holidays! I have to design my cards so i can get them to the printer. Idea that i kind of like:

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biz card for a friend

Friday, November 13th, 2009

chris passed the bar! so his lovely lady friend, Bea came to me to get him set up with some biz cards for a “graduation” present….

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filter biz cards

Monday, July 13th, 2009

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cawfee tawk

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Spoke to the client, he is happy! likes the french press silhouette and wants orange and to add the words: coffeehouse and espresso bar. And now, time to send the invoice ;-)

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NEW STUFF:

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A coffee afficionado friend of mine moved to DC and is opening a coffee shop. He came to town a few weekends ago, and asked if i would design the logo for the coffee shop.

here are some stabs. the name of the shop is Filter, and it basically is because of the french press filters he will be using. they look like a cross inside of a circle, so that is where some of these came from. the ones with the script typeface came as a surprise, i think i was listening to some old timey jazzy music while i was working on these, and i think they kind of work.

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mmcis: other fonts/different greens

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

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Ideas

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I’ll post all preliminary ideas on this post.

admittedly, i have no idea where to take this hatches/slashes idea below….but i wanted to just put it up. It’s a mess right now, but i could make it work into something:

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How bout a “doppler” (as matt called it) going up and down?
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rachael ray, my idol

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Yesterday, my book club friends and I went to a taping of the Rachael Ray show. It was really cool to see her and how the show works. She was definitely calling the shots – rewriting scripts/directing people on the set/etc. She made no mistakes while filming and there was no need to do multiple takes. Sally field was the guest and she looked incredible for her age and seemed pretty down to earth.

RR has a career that has everything I’m interested in….food, media, and magazines/publishing. It got me thinking about gearing myself more towards the food world – professionally. I’ve done some food styling at some photo shoots because of our low budgets and small staff – but I need to learn some tricks/take classes/shadow a professional.

I found this blog that talks about photography & food styling

Since I’ll be working at night for most of the summer (unless something happens) – i may have time to do an internship, apprentice, or take a class. I emailed a couple contacts today to see if anybody had any direction for me – so we’ll see where it takes me.