Inspiration

Aaron and I went out to First Friday Artwalk near the house on Friday. We ran into a friend of Aaron's who recently set up a dance company in town and she was doing a small exhibition to promote their performance for the following night. It was great so we decided to go to the performance at the Herberger Theater on Saturday night. I miss dancing. We are looking at a larger apartment (2.5 times the size we have now) that is in our price range downtown tomorrow. Hopefully something larger works out because I would love to practice choreography at home again. So, this is all just to say that I'm inspired to get back into dancing. I might take a class at her studio if I can keep up with the drive... it's a 20 minute trek but worth it I think.



On another note but the same blog, I've decided that doing consultant graphic design from home would be ideal for me after quitting my current planning job in November. That will allow me flexibility to work with volunteer agencies whenever they need me, and to get paid while keeping up with my design skills... hopefully it would award greater creative license on the jobs I go after as well. No more icky politics. I'm thinking it will also allow me to target firms, personal parties and organizations whose work / purpose I respect. So, here are some examples of work that I (and Aaron in some cases) have done in case you know of anyone who needs a flyer, brochure, postcard, book, menu, etc put together. The examples are not set up to print and were recreated simply as jpegs to get an idea. K. That's it for now.


This was a small flyer (4" x 5") that we made for a refugee outreach organization for them to hand out to ASU students to gain interest in becoming a volunteer and participating in org events. We made them small and in black and white so that they could print 4 to a page, saving money in both paper and ink.


This is, as you know:), the save the date postcard that we made for our wedding. Our theme is funky art nouveau and we used only our color scheme to fill in the black and white collage. We printed on cream paper because that was our fourth color: burgundy, dusty blue, brass and cream.


This is an architectural style sheet that I made for a client. I made 4 sheets, one for each architectural style: Modern, Spanish Colonial Revival, Adobe, and Bungalow. It was printed on 11 x 17 front and back. The front gave an overview of the style and designated images to capture the text. The back provided additional, larger images of the style. The client loved them!


This was a proposal cover for a firm. I took the photographs and Aaron did the layout inspired by the colors and angles of the images. We love this one. It's so simple and beautiful.