Though I can’t divulge details, I’m permitted to share a couple of screenshots and wireframes from this new project.
When all you’ve got is paint
We live across the street from an elementary school in a struggling district. Awhile ago, I wrote about the collaborative mural project I designed and directed for them, but I realized only recently that I’d left out an important first step.
As part of the new business launch we created with decluttering and design startup, Space to Love, we delivered a simple (but beautiful) website.
Our development clients based in Northwest Arkansas needed to update their old website to reflect evolving plans.
Pattern archetypes: an elegant onion
I find it half fascinating, half maddening. It can be bulbous and comical or elegant and mysteriously harmonious. Its leaf-like form and the fascinating ways it can tightly repeat make it seem archetypal. One site’s onion is another site’s paisley, ogee or persian pickle, and the meanings of all those terms overlap and blur.
Paisley or Nearly
This ink and watercolor drawing is part of a paisley study series I did awhile ago, and is still the most popular.
New Business Launch: Space to Love
Space to Love is a new organization and decluttering business, based in Los Angeles. The vision of author and designer, Christel Ferguson, it will focus on both adapting to and facilitating important life changes for individuals, couples and families.
Logo and identity package for Wally Walsh, Feldenkrais Practioner.
Another 3D chocolate printing project
The notice arrived from piq Chocolates yesterday that these 3D chocolate thank you notes have shipped to a client. I wish I could be there to see the reception.
Fabric Pattern: Wings for a Sphinx
Lisa Flores sews practical items for people and pets. She has an etsy shop, ekeka, where she sells custom and made-to-order cat beds, custom dog bed covers and cat clothes. Her cat clothes are mainly for hairless sphynx cats.
H1Talent is a startup aimed at serving visa holding professionals and the U.S. companies that want to hire them. I’ve been heavily involved with the launch of this brand for awhile, and it was time to hammer out a logo that was super clean, but also warm, human.
3D printing with chocolate
piq Chocolates is a startup that is among a few 3D thinkers developing viable ways to offer edible, 3D printed chocolates as gifts and promotional items.
Online advertising trends: all kinds of collaborative
Businesses looking to either buy or sell online advertising should check out this NetNewsCheck article about a talk given by BuzzFeed’s executive director of social publishing, David Spiegel. BuzzFeed is currently the envy of online journalism…
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