Holiday Cards

Last winter I put together some Holiday Cards for a local card/printing company. I never got around to posting them. So here we go, better late then never! Enjoy.

Contract Work for MyExpressions.com

I've been working on some Holiday Card designs for MyExpression.com. Here's what I've flushed out so far.

Freelance Work

One day I was cashiering at Mikes and I was making some small talk with a pastry cheff, The Cake Diva, Janan. She gave me her card so I could check out her work for my sisters future wedding and I noticed she needed a logo. I slipper her my card and the rest is history. Today, I got my first freelance paycheck! I was pretty excited.

Some other illustration while working on The Cake Diva's logo.

Some Fresh Meat

So my sister has finally left the fast paced world of coffee making of Starbucks. Basically, too much drama. So now she is out in the real world and even though she is still in school, she had done enough hours to work as a Massage Therapist. I, of course, being the best person to work on her future business identity started working on a biz card/ appointment reminder card for her. I still want to try a few ideas out, but I wanted to give you all a taste for what I have been working on.


I also have the pleasure of sharing with all of you about this little number. A few months ago I started following this guy on twitter and then found myself following one of his followers who works in PR and writes her own blog. After befriending one another on Facebook, she invited me out for lunch to talk about a project she had for me. So here is the new look for Marcy's Minneapolis Career Girl blog logo. There is still some more work to do for her, but I'm excited for any and more freelance projects.

Even though this was made a while ago, my friend Mike has been making some dramatic changes to his site and now has incorporated the new logo that I made for him into it. I'm so happy to see my work up in the real (internet) world.

Last, but not least, I want to share the work of my reunited friendship with my buddy Steve Robbins. He is a great comic artist, wonderful character designer and all around great guy. I hope you check out his site and his blog.

Busy Bee

I just wanted to extend an apology out to my readers. I know I haven't posted anything new on my blog for a long time and the truth is, I have been pretty busy the last few weeks. I've been working any where's from 20-35 hours a week at my new PT job with Michael's, I also have a number of projects or clients that I have been working with as well. The Advertising Federation of MN needs a holiday party post card made, a fellow twitter-er needed her logo date pushed up and my sister needs a biz card now. Plus there are little things like looking for work, babysitting, cleaning the apt, trying to stay social, etc. Oh! And, there are all the little things I've been doing to help Jenna out before her wedding on the 28th! Sometimes I think I like stretching myself too thin. Brent says, I'm trying to compete with him, I'm not really, or at least, not on purpose; I'm just trying to make enough money to pay my bills and keep everyone happy. I've been on unemployment for over 6 months and even though I have this PT job, it's not enough to cover everything. So I stay busy, busy as a little bee in the summer time, even though we're going into winter. Hopefully the job hunt will turn around for me, it's been really slow since I started at Mike's.

Adult Homework

SPC Original Site

My Mock Redesign: SPC Home Page

My Mock Redesign: SPC Home Page, courser over button/ Ad 1

My Mock Redesign: SPC Home Page, courser over button/ Ad 2

After my design interview last Tuesday, I was given a 24 'homework' assignment to mock up a redesign of SPC's home page. They gave me a list of guidelines to meet and two other websites they own/worked on as references. Web design isn't me strongest forte, but it would be something I would love to gain more experience in. Whether I get the job or not, it's still good practice for me. Plus it kept me busy for a little while.

New Work

Tele Pole Series:
The shirt is viewable on RYZ

Big City Series
The shoes are viewable on RYZ

Credit Note: Portraits are from Threadless.com and the 3D shoe renderings come from RYZ.com. Designs are by hbDesigns (aka me).