Oldie But A Goodie

I ran into this one while converting my CD storage to more reliable storage. This was a weeding invitation for a very dear friend. And YES! They're still together.

No Small Idea

This was created a few years ago for a fantastic local event called "Feed Your Soul". Here's the Artist Statement that went along with the piece:

This piece was created not to illustrate this event’s purpose but to honor the idea responsible for the event.

The idea was to spread good.

The idea was to help.

It was nothing revolutionary, nothing earth-shattering.

It was just helping.

This was the beginning.

Such a small idea, like all small ideas, vulnerable to being lost in the shuffle. Tossed aside to counter-balance life. Swept under a rug to be picked up later. This small idea, like all ideas we have, when given just five more minutes
of time has the potential grow to become something so great and so wonderful.

What impresses me most and what inspires me most, is not so much the fruition of the idea for Feed Your Soul
(as impressive as it may be) but that despite the myriad of ways that this fragile, paper-like idea could have been thwarted, it won.

REJECTED: Invitation Illustration

Sniff, sniff. This one stung a bit. I thought this was a slam dunk. When the client gave me the photo, this was the very first thing that popped in my head as far as visuals. Just the way the veil was blowing, the expression on the bride's face, it seemed pretty clear, right?

REJECTED!!

Oh well.

Green Graphic Design Typography

This was created for a book cover comp for Celery Design Collaborative's new book Green Graphic Design. This was something that I've been wanting to do but didn't have the opportunity until now. The request for help on this project came Friday morning with a Saturday morning delivery. This lead me on a mad rush to the local gardening supply store for the last roll (mostly brown) of sod. I cut the pieces into basic components – curves, straight lines, etc. Shot them. Then photoshopped the whole thing together. Great to work on it for real. However, now that I've done this once, next time I'll make a point of allowing the sod time to straighten out and grow into longer blades of grass before cutting them up.