A WEDDING SHOWER CLAMBAKE

This past Saturday we were the guests of honor at a clambake inspired wedding shower hosted by some friends and family. Above are the invitations that were designed for the shower. Below is a picture show of our shower located at an estate with ponds in the country.

We had a wonderful time with everyone that attended and want to say thanks for celebrating with us. The hosts really did an amazing job. Thanks for hosting Arika, Olivia and Jessie.

Photos by Doug Bennett

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IN TRANSIT BOOK COVER

In Transit
A Youth Worker's Guide to Navigating a New Beginning
Tim Ciccone
Barefoot Ministries

ECONOMY OF LOVE BOOK DESIGN

I designed this book for The House Studio. The book comes packaged in a box with a DVD.

I also designed the interior of the book. Here is a look:

The first concept which was mentioned in an earlier post turned out to look too much like spaghetti and had to be redesigned. Below is the first concept that got the boot:

Economy of Love
Creating a Community of Enough
Shane Claiborne / Isaac Anderson
The House Studio
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RAINBOW PIE BOOK COVER

A new book design for Granta & Portobello Books.

Rainbow Pie
A Memoir of Redneck America
Joe Bageant
Granta Books

As Obama’s triumphant ‘Yes we can’ continues to reverberate, it’s tempting to believe that a new era of opportunity has dawned. But there still are several million dirt-poor, disgruntled Americans for whom the possibility of change is as far away as ever. These are the gun-owning, donut dunkin’, uninsured, underemployed rednecks who occupy America’s heartland: the ones who never got a slice of the pie during the good times, and the ones who have been hit hardest by the economic slump. Theirs is a hard-luck story that goes back generations and Joe Bageant tells it here with poignancy, indignation, and tinder-dry wit. Through the tale of his own rambunctious Scots-Irish family, starting with his grandparents Maw and Pap, Bageant traces the post-war migration of the rural poor to the sprawling suburbs where they found, not the affluence they’d dreamed of, but isolation and deprivation, and the bitter futility of hope.

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I WENT TO IDAHO

I added another state to the "Arthur was Here" list. Took a road trip with the fiance and family from Salt Lake City, Utah to Preston, Idaho over the Memorial Day weekend.





We stopped by a few locations where the movie Napoleon Dynamite was filmed. How could I not? I looked really hard for a lama but didn't see anything except for some white tail deer and cows. We stopped first at the High School. I got this photo of two former students. My fiance's father and aunt.



We stopped at Pop'n Pins to bowl a round but they were closed for the summer. So we took photos and played outside.





And we couldn't help but act like the big kids we are.



This is Mabel, the fastest dog alive.



Happy Friday!

ALMOST CHRISTIAN JACKET

I designed and created the typeface for this book jacket.

Almost Christian
Kenda Creasy Dean
Oxford University Press
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CATALOG WORK

Been working on a catalog and taking photos of product with B. Hill. I am setting up a page to shoot! The final images of the pages will be posted soon!

Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!

SNEAK PEAK @ ENGAGEMENT PHOTOS

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We hired our creative friend and photographer Anne Martin to take our engagement photos. We went book browsing at Prospero's Bookstore, did some model shoots in a train yard and went on a sunset picnic over looking downtown Kansas City. We all had a great time and Anne took some great shots. She sent us these photos last night and I wanted to share. We can't wait to get the rest. Thanks Anne!

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