Compendium is an absolutely inspiring company and their Write Now journal is just another one of their wonderful products. I was commissioned to illustrate this entire 128-page journal with the theme Long Live Sustainability. It's fully illustrated and contains hand drawn lines and type and is printed on recycled paper. What is it that you need to write… right now?
Alphabet cards with BasicGrey? Yes please! Each letter of the alphabet is illustrated, back-filled with awesome patterns, the type hand drawn and printed on oversized flash cards. Now you know your ABC's!
I love working with BasicGrey, their projects and products are incredible and their creativity and fancy ideas are truly phenomenal. Working with them is no different. This memory card game was a treat of a project, a truly creative one. Made up of 30 card pairs, all individually illustrated and a petite cardboard canister package. Now, where did I see that teapot?
Card design submissions to Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas has been perfect. They look to stay on top of trends and have a great demographic for cool cards. Each piece is fully illustrated and created with hand drawn type. In need of a greeting?
Each year I like to create a holiday mailing to send along to friends and family, each year trying to be more creative than the next! This shows a bit of that fun. Always illustrated, letterpress printed in my studio, packaged and assembled by hand and with love for the happiest of holidays! Let's make some cards!
This year's holiday card mailing was just a fun experiment with illustration and letterpress printing. Fun, whimsical illustrations, a super silly self-portrait and every piece of the card letterpress printed in my studio. Please, do enjoy straightaway!
I created a small series of painted illustrations while in graduate school at the University of Utah. Five illustrated and acrylic painted pieces bound and designed into a very small book. Find the joy…
Red Desert Candy Company is located in Torrey Utah and is an absolute delight to work with! I gladly worked through their branding, packaging and website with them. Using illustrated patterns, amazingly rich color and hand crafted products makes all the difference. What an awesome treat!
Whimsy was created for Creating Keepsakes Magazine's montly issue. A mini album made of self-portraits and short poems, hand assembled into french-folded pages and contained in a handmade package. Oh what fun!
I was able to create many good and fun things with Creating Keepsakes Magazine and some of them were very simple magazine submissions. I Remember is a small accordion booklet with childhood memories and photos. A designed mini album of sorts. Handmade, printed and assembled. It's good to remember…
I created my very first published piece with Creating Keepsakes Magazine. They commissioned me to create one of their special issues titled 101 Hip, Handmade Gifts. Originally concepted handmade gifts, created by hand, illustrated and designed. It was an amazing treat and experience to work on. Definitely and completely hip!
Crate Paper is such very creative company. Full of fun little details and awesomely illustrated work. I was able to add to their loveliness with a couple of paper collections of my own. I worked on entire paper lines rub-on transfer designs, stickers and embellishments all fully illustrated. So let's dilly-dally a bit!
Working with American Crafts was one of the most perfect jobs indeed! I was part of start to finish projects, branding, packaging, catalog work and a whole lot of illustration. We created paper collections, followed and created trends, came up with innovative packaging and won AIGA 100 awards for our great work. Pattern work anyone?
During time in graduate school I worked on a graphic novel project that detailed family stories and memories and events. A 60 page book, ink drawings, fully illustrated and hand bound. Good, good memories indeed!
Working on a personal project I created a series of quote books. Each book had a different theme and was created and made with materials that supported the theme. There were twelve individual books each with twelve pages, fully illustrated, letterpress printed and hand bound. I do love amazing quotes…
As a Senior BFA Project at the University, I created and illustrated a letterpress printed, hand bound, editioned children's book. Titled Moth Meatballs, written by Christy Anderson and based on the idea of changing ones paradigms, it was an absolute treat of a project. Anyone care for some meatballs?
For an elaborate, fancy and fun holiday card in 2008, Naomi Davis Lee and I produced a children's book together. Titled The Grand Adventures of Peerless Pancake & Miss Trilby or Seventy-one Years to the Final Exit, it contained 40 pages of ink drawings and story, fully illustrated bits and pieces and was a letterpress printed edition of 1,000. Up for an adventure?
The Vista project with Axis41 was decently light and fun. Tee design, logowork and a small catalog. Just good, simple fun…
Collateral and mailer pieces were very creative with Axis41. Ciena being no exception. This detailed mailer involved a book, a specifically-sized tin, an accordion insert, sticker labels and very detailed digital drawings. Ready for some time travel?
Novell was one of Axis41's amazing clients and I had the opportunity to work on one of thier large Linux conference campaigns. A very large-scale project. Outdoor posters and banners, tabletop collateral pieces, insert cards and handfuls of digital drawings. Novell was big indeed!
