More work in the wild! I worked with the always lovely and fantastic Ms. Joanne Newell to create her new company’s logo, website, and some ebook covers. Joanne is always very organized and has thought through her art direction thoroughly before beginning, so as always, it was a pleasure working with her! Check out her site and change your life!
I’ve been crazy-busy over the past 2 months working on several big jobs and this one has finally been released into the wild. I’d love to hear what you think. This ended up being a way bigger and more time-consuming job than initially planned, but I am happy with the results at least.
Latest work is appearing in The Globe & Mail, Saturday edition (right hand side) and online.
Here are a couple of the frames, but to see the fully animated ads, check out the Globe’s index page. Fun! You might have to refresh a couple of times before they come up, but one ad appears in the header and one on the right-hand sidebar.
Nice little feature of “Cyma Girl” on The I Spot today. Thanks Jami!
In other news, SO busy right now but looking forward to updating you soon. Cool things will be going live/being published over the next few weeks!
We just returned from a wonderful vacation in good old Orlando (yes, Disney). We drove, which I highly recommend, as long as you aren’t taking an under-2 year old, who will be convinced that you are sadistic and out to torture them for entertainment…. and trust me, it won’t be entertaining for anyone. But the princesses delighted all 3 little girls we took, and I always enjoy spending time with my parents.
So it is back in the saddle and I’ve done so much work since my last update, that it is hard to know where to begin, but with approximately 3000 unique visitors per month (thank you visitors!), it will be worth the effort to hopefully give you some entertainment that doesn’t involve begging to be set free of car seats and being hit in the head by flying pencils thrown by disgruntled toddlers.
Here goes….
Sleep tight!
If you have ever had a client ask you for the spot colour or PMS for some CMYK artwork you’ve created, you know that what you see on your computer screen is not always the same as what a printing press will output. So, what to do?
Worth the trip to the internet today!
Things are slowing down a bit for Christmas, but since I am moving on Monday (again!), I’m not complaining. Thank goodness to be gone from the miserable downtown apartment building with the crusty and dishonest neighbour and into the cute little 3 bedroom house, complete with a fully-fenced backyard and neighbourhood full of kids my daughter’s age!
Now that we are officially going to be living in the ‘burbs, I bought a car! This will be my first car since the $300 Ford Tempo I owned 10 years ago (holy, time flies!) and I’m excited. My dad is driving it up on Sunday and it will be so exciting to be able to install our car seats and keep them put for the foreseeable future! I’m also looking forward to a lot more fresh air and outdoor activity!
In work news, here’s the latest. It’s a logo for a web banner. They’ll be using a simplified version for the business cards and smaller uses, but I thought this turned out to be pretty sweet.
Lastly, I was excited to learn that at least one of my donated prints was sold at the aforementioned “Whodunnit” event. The proud owner was kind enough to contact me and let me know how happy he was with his purchase. Very cool!
It has been a busy, busy month - which always makes me very happy indeed, but does make it a bit quiet on the blogging front! I had some really great clients this month, but funny enough I also had more than my usual number of hard-to-pleasers… 2, but a record nonetheless!
Funny enough, the work done for both was work I thought was really heading somewhere good… c’est la vie!
I’ve revised this a little to remove their branding, but here is one of the pieces in question…
On the other hand, I also had some really great easy-peasy clients this past month too… here’s some of what I’ve worked on:
And of course, there was the usual stuff that I can’t share just yet, but will update you with upon release by their respective owners!
Well, Fall is certainly upon us here in the currently grey and cloudy Toronto. In my mind, I call it “Autumn” and add that dozy, Martha Stewart hum to it whilst (whilst!) imagining the smell of hot apple cider with cinnamon curling up from a steaming mug cupped between chilled hands half covered by woolen sweater sleeves. Snort!
But seriously, as I sit in my overheated apartment (darned building-controlled radiators) flipping between uncomfortably hot to open-window draft-chilly, I long for summer and eat watermelon. Yum! This weekend I’m looking forward to a girlie day of getting my hair cut at Toni & Guy (never been, but it has great reviews) and then a chick-flick with Tina, followed by yummy eats at one of Toronto’s finest.
Work has been wonderful and cRaZy lately. I love my job. I reeeaaaaalllly love it! I mean seriously… I draw pictures all day! It’s fantastic!
Here’s the latest:
And of course, the usual stuff I can’t show yet… I’ve been so busy and can’t believe I only have one piece I can show for it at the moment. Stay tuned!
P.S. Can you believe that Van Morrison thinks “Brown Eyed Girl” is a “boring” song! I guess you’d have to be forced to sing it millions of times to think that. I wonder if George Harrison had a secret hatred for “Here Comes the Sun”? Nah. Not possible!
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