When I saw this, I had flashbacks to our home movies of me trying to be cool jumping my rusty BMX bike in the background as my Mom shot video of some out-of-town relatives driving into our drive.
Oh to be 13 and this cool again ... or not.
Remember when ...
You were this cool?
When I saw this, I had flashbacks to our home movies of me trying to be cool jumping my rusty BMX bike in the background as my Mom shot video of some out-of-town relatives driving into our drive.
Oh to be 13 and this cool again ... or not.
When I saw this, I had flashbacks to our home movies of me trying to be cool jumping my rusty BMX bike in the background as my Mom shot video of some out-of-town relatives driving into our drive.
Oh to be 13 and this cool again ... or not.
After 9 months of waiting – it's finally here ...
No, not baby #3 – my website! It's kind of funny that it took 9 months because looking back, the process very closely resembled a pregnancy.
Here's the timeline:
April 2007 – Decided a website would be a great addition to my life
July 2007 – Met with my webmaster for the first time to discuss the process
October 2007 – Began frantically gathering information and making important decisions in order to feel like I was prepared for this to actually happen
December 2007 – Felt weary of the whole process, just wanted it to be OVER!
February 16, 2008 – My website made it's first appearance to the world
Whew...glad that's over! I'd like to say a special thank you to my friend AnnDee who helped me with all the programming and webmaster stuff. I'm fine when it comes to how a website should "look", but don't ask me to make it "work"! That's where AnnDee came in. I appreciate all your help, AnnDee!
Enjoy the site!
Here's the timeline:
April 2007 – Decided a website would be a great addition to my life
July 2007 – Met with my webmaster for the first time to discuss the process
October 2007 – Began frantically gathering information and making important decisions in order to feel like I was prepared for this to actually happen
December 2007 – Felt weary of the whole process, just wanted it to be OVER!
February 16, 2008 – My website made it's first appearance to the world
Whew...glad that's over! I'd like to say a special thank you to my friend AnnDee who helped me with all the programming and webmaster stuff. I'm fine when it comes to how a website should "look", but don't ask me to make it "work"! That's where AnnDee came in. I appreciate all your help, AnnDee!
Enjoy the site!
Tabloids Schmabloids ...
Here's another interesting project I just did for a client. His sister-in-law is turning 40 this weekend and they're throwing a big surprise party. Apparently they're going to have this "edition" of the National Enquirer blown up into a poster and this will be the first thing guests see as they enter The St. Paul Hotel for the big bash. Good times!
Minnesota Humane Society Project
I got to work with the Minnesota Humane Society on a fundraising mailing this past week. The existing pieces they'd been using were, to put it nicely, horrendous. This project was a fun one because I was pretty much given complete creative freedom. I ended up doing a 4-page brochure, a letter, an envelope and a pledge card. Hopefully the fact that the new literature actually looks decent will help their fundraising efforts!
My Latest Masterpiece
Being married to a teacher there's always a never ending list of things my husband (or a co-worker who is jealous they're not married to a rock-star graphic designer) wants me to design for the classroom. There are conference reminders, curriculum night literature, field trip permission slips, PowerPoint templates...the list goes on and on. Earlier this week I was sitting up at all hours of the night screaming at my computer as I attempted to set up a newsletter template in my favorite program – Microsoft Word – for my husband's school secretary.
Well now here I sit...on a Friday night, designing a cure-all to the behavioral problems in Mr. Libby's 4th grade class – LIBBY LOOT. Heck, bribing kids with money seems to work well for a lot of parents when they want their kids to do something, so why not try it in the classroom? Okay, well actually there won't be any bribing going on, but there will be a new "Libby Loot point system" for earning privileges come Monday morning in Room #23. Can't wait to see if I have effectively reached my "target audience". ;-)
Well now here I sit...on a Friday night, designing a cure-all to the behavioral problems in Mr. Libby's 4th grade class – LIBBY LOOT. Heck, bribing kids with money seems to work well for a lot of parents when they want their kids to do something, so why not try it in the classroom? Okay, well actually there won't be any bribing going on, but there will be a new "Libby Loot point system" for earning privileges come Monday morning in Room #23. Can't wait to see if I have effectively reached my "target audience". ;-)
Logo Project Updates
Thought I'd share the most current versions of the two main logo projects I'm working on right now. You saw the preliminary designs and there have been numerous rounds of revisions with each of these, BUT they're now narrowed down to two options for each design that the client is choosing from.
The logo that started out as "Club Cerini" is now just "Cerini" because they're launching the on-line dating website first, so there won't technically be a "Club Cerini" until the site gets up and running. But at least we've got some nice concepts to work with once they're ready for the "Club Cerini" logo. And with the DEL Network logo, the client wasn't real fond of the orange in the original concepts I showed. He's more of a blue/black/green kind of guy, which is fine. My personal favorites are: Cerini – design on the left/ The DEL Network – design on the top.
That's all for now!
The logo that started out as "Club Cerini" is now just "Cerini" because they're launching the on-line dating website first, so there won't technically be a "Club Cerini" until the site gets up and running. But at least we've got some nice concepts to work with once they're ready for the "Club Cerini" logo. And with the DEL Network logo, the client wasn't real fond of the orange in the original concepts I showed. He's more of a blue/black/green kind of guy, which is fine. My personal favorites are: Cerini – design on the left/ The DEL Network – design on the top.
That's all for now!
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