I’ve taken a breather from my blog after my 10 days of new posts, only to go back and realize that I only had 9!!! Nice. This is one of the many reasons why I did not become an accountant. We’ve got some new design things in the works (for blogging later), so in the [...]
Archive for: June, 2008
June 17th, 2008 by Ellen
I just finished up the logo and website for my good friend Suzan Koç. She is a music business veteran offering these fantastic songwriting mentoring workshops, with herself and other songwriting professionals. Best of luck with your new business Suzan, I know you will be a huge success! Check out the website here www.songwritersrendezvous.com
June 16th, 2008 by Ellen
I had the pleasure of meeting Doug Miranda at The Modern Portrait seminar in Los Angeles. He is a great wedding and portrait photographer up in Lake Tahoe (soon to move to Sacramento). He heard me speak to the participants about branding and he just got it. I’m showing the final logo today but we [...]
June 13th, 2008 by Ellen
When the famed Washington portrait artist Diana Adams approached me to do a logo for her new fine art line, I was honored. I love her art, and am attaching my favorite. You can see how the logo got its inspiration-Pez. Pada Gallery is scheduled to open very soon. I’ll post here when it does.
June 12th, 2008 by Ellen
After speaking to Jenni Green, I was a little nervous about doing her logo. She is a fellow designer and photographer (and very good one at that). She had also worked for an artists who is very inspirational to me Sabrina Ward Harrison. However, I felt like we made such a great connection through our [...]
June 11th, 2008 by Ellen
One of the coolest things about Cindy is that she just seems to get it. She was an absolute dream to work with and she knew just what she wanted. You see that kind of direction in her photography, capturing real moments in a photo and having it tell a very definite story. The second [...]
June 10th, 2008 by Ellen
…Save the date that is. This is a fun one for the always fabulous Justine Ungaro and her upcoming nuptials. Author of the UnBride, she’s planning a gorgeously glamourous “Vintage Rock Chic” wedding, complete with an 80’s band, pink Cadillac, and a donut machine. What would be more fitting that having black tee shirts made as [...]
June 9th, 2008 by Ellen
Ok, already I missed Friday’s posting, so I’m going to make up with two today. Check back for one this evening. This logo, letterpressed two sided business card and gift certificate were design for the lovely and super friendly, awesome photographer Hillary Gardener. She is so upbeat and positive and loves butterflies. Her work is [...]
June 5th, 2008 by Ellen
This is a logo recently completed for a darling photographer in Nashville, Kristen Johse Parker. Her photographs are fresh and spirited and full of joy. She is such a sweetheart, but as she’s a cowboy boots, tee shirt and jeans gal, she asked that I keep her logo a “tiny bit rough on the edges…” [...]
June 4th, 2008 by Ellen
What a cliché this blog has become, author gets busy, blog gets ignored…for over a month!!! The good new is I have so many fun projects to post, I am making a promise to have new postings every day for the next 10 days. New projects, fantastic design finds etc. Starting with these great business [...]