No Coast Craft O Rama 2010

This poster designed by Sara Lintner of Too Many Suitors  is gorgeous! I'm really bumed that I had to turn it down this year but I couldn't be happier that my good friend Kelly of Table Tin will have a table!

Swatch Books

We just did a project where we were to design a series of three related paper swatch book covers. The theme was plants and the typography was to work with any supporting images.

I have to first show some gorgeous swatch books that French Paper has put together...

My three covers:

In a paper store I saw a stamp that looked like a very intricate flower. Upon closer inspection I saw it was actually a doily.  I thought this was a brilliant way to create an abstract image of a flower and then play around with size and placement. I scanned three different doilys and then did a live trace in Illustrator. There is no transparency on these, but you still get an illusion of this with the optical blending of colors. 

A Logo in the Making

As one of our last assignments, we were to create a personal logo and identity. This has been in the back of my mind for quite awhile but when it came time to start I was hitting a brick wall. What did I want to identify me? What is my personal style?

A logo should:

• Look as good in black in white as it does in color
• Look good when it's very small. Tiny details get lost.
• Be seductive - it should hold attention
• Have contrast
• Represent the business, person, whoever. It should fit the client.

So the first round of digital roughs:

I really didn't like....... So onto round 2.....

Ok, better, but still not there. The shape in the last row was starting to intrigue me. What would it be like solid?

Ok, now for the first time that day I wasn't swearing up a storm. This was getting much better.

Ta Da!!!!!