Wedding Invitation: Scrapbook Style

My friend Paula was getting married. We’d known each other for so many years I can’t count. How could I drop cash into an envelope and call that a gift for someone I’d know so long and so well? Nope. It had to be personal. So I decided to design her wedding invitations. Paula is really into scrapbooking (me too), so, with her input,  I designed an invitation, save the date card, and RSVP card to reflect her scrapbooky style. I did some of the photos for the invitation too!

Paula's Wedding Invitation

Diner Flyer

The Liberty Elm Diner had the great privelage to be featured on the popular food network TV show, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Carol, the diner owner, asked me to design a flyer for the viewing party.

Flyer for Liberty Elm Diner Viewing Party

Liberty Elm Diner Web Site

I love diners. To me, the best diners look as close as possible to the way they looked when they were first manufactured, they’ve got good signage (preferably neon), friendly wait staff, and vegetarian options on the menu. That last part is hard to find, but lucky for me there’s a diner meeting that description within a few miles from my house. And I get to work on their web site!

This site was originally developed by talended designer, Serena Andrews, and she handed it over to me just before she went to NYC. I populated much of the content and created graphics to match the look and feel of the place itself. It is still a work in progress, but you’ll get the idea: www.libertyelmdiner.com.

 

Liberty Elm Diner web site

Graphic elements for the Liberty Elm Diner web site

Invitation to Dance!

I have so much fun designing invitations to weddings and birthday parties. This is a fun one for a 40th birthday party. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. ;-0

Kite Tails Logo

I attended a business planning class at the Center for Women and Enterprise a couple of years ago. Its a very supportive and information-packed place, a great resource for business advice. It was an amazing process, watching people start the class with a germ of an idea and seeing the idea develop into a reality. One of my classmates, Aimee Falso, did just that. She opened Kite Tails Play Center, unique, indoor/outdoor play center for children ages birth to six and the grown-ups who love them. Before she opened, Aimee came to me with some sketches and a color pallette and asked me to design her logo.

United Way Annual Report

I was asked to design an annual report for the United Way. They provided the photos and the text and it was my job to make sense of it all in an organized, easy-to-read format. You can click the link below to download the entire report, if it floats your boat.

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UW annual report

Projo Slideshow Covers

I was working at the Providence Journal when they first started using the web to feature the work of their photography staff in slideshow format. I took the liberty of designing splash pages for the slideshows I was assigned to produce. Here are a few of my favorites:

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