So what if Real Simple gets the credit, at least we're in the same idea ballpark

I'd love to think that Real Simple stumbled upon P as in Peter and got inspired for their gorgeous mason jar shoot. I'd love to think that 100 Layer Cake did too (courtesy of Brides magazine). But while I can only dream for that to be the case, I am happy to think that the creative bubble of southern thinking that these two powerhouses are a part of is large enough to include me too.

Excited for a day at the beach...and type class!

This Friday we went to Wilmington for a mini vacation, and while Mike was most excited about getting some beach time, I got (probably too much of) a kick out of the name of our hotel. The Clarendon Inn uses the Clarendon typeface for its logo! (chicken or egg on whether the hotel chose it's name based on the font or not)

Curiously, the bed and breakfast across the street also uses Clarendon font; isn't that Competitive Branding 101?

You say 'Crazy', I say 'Creative'

But if I were obsessed enough with the typeface and OBVIOUS font size difference in the logo of the driver in front of me today (the 'olin' is definitely larger than 'fairweather'), isn't that a testament to how meticulous I will be when I design an invitation?

The reason I design stationery and invitations

Because I can only hope something I design makes someone feel as good as these cards made me feel when I opened my mail yesterday.

One small step for a bride, one giant leap for one who designs her own invitations.

I really never thought about how much I obsess about every detail until attempting to hammer down a design for my upcoming wedding. After months of sitting and mulling over the big things (pantone swatches and design icons) and the not-so-big ones (going cross-eyed over kerning dilemmas that only I would ever notice) I finally said 'I do' to a design. I look forward to a much easier one to say on September 24.

 

UPS: the time traveling experts

If I ever wanted to travel back to 2001 and my glory days of faxing, it was today!

A blast from my advertising past

Five years after my Glenlivet ads debuted, I finally made One Magazine (a respected industry publication that no one in the real world has heard of) which praised the look of this ad campaign and the typographer who I hired for the project. My only other time in the mag was in 2000 when one of my student pieces declared me 'a woman to watch' in the ad industry. And while the ad industry and I have stopped watching for each other lately, it WAS a nice feeling to get a wink from them in 2011.