Valentine's Day Invitation

Departure Wines Alternate Concept

If a conceptual design is right on, it's chosen. If it's lucky, there's always a chance at a second life with a new project or a new client. But most of the time, because designers are a fidgety bunch, the concepts are left to the purgatory of the Archive Hard Drive.

The Dull Fly

Another find from the archives. Long-time friend and client, Sasha Verhage, had this idea for a local DIY magazine that promoted multi-disciplinary design collaboration. The Dull Fly was great experiment.

The Good Life Presentation

I gave my friends at Celery Design Collaborative a hand with this presentation. The client needs to remain nameless for a bit, but I was really happy with the way the artwork came out.

2001 Wedding Invitation

I know, I know, it's a bit of a cliche for a graphic designer to love and always show off their wedding invitation. But I do love the one that my wife and I created. We wanted to create something that really represented what was important to us. We came up with the idea immediately but it was such a time intensive direction, we tried to avoid it. We debated and debated. This idea was, in fact, the only idea.

So we took the list of folks we wanted to invite and mapped them in a big Venn diagram to show how all of our friends and family are connected.

School Days Live On...

This goes way back to my college days in New Orleans. They asked my class to design a logo for the Magazine Street Merchants Association. Magazine Street is (arguably) the beautiful New Orleans, like Bourbon Street is the party New Orleans. It's a small honor. If the members selected your logo you received some money in the form of a gift certificate to the local art supply store. So when I visited recently, I was pleasantly surprised to see my logo live on.

Long Live Color!

The Ecological Guide to Color

The Ecological Guide to Paper - Year Two

The Ecological Guide to Paper - Year One

Many moons ago, Rod DeWeese, Brian Dougherty and I started Celery Design Collaborative. Often times our 10 minute Monday morning project updates would evolve into two hour brainstorm sessions. The Ecological Guide to Paper was one of the best results. As a follow up we designed The Ecological Guide to Color. Similar to the paper guide, this color guide was a tool to the Pantone colors with the least amount of nasty chemicals. Although the color guide was not produced, I ran into the files the other day and thought it should somehow live on...