12.15.2010
12.03.2010
WEDDING PHOTO PREVIEW
We get our wedding photos today!
These photos were taken in Kansas City, MO on our wedding day by our awesome photographer Alec Vanderboom.
Click on the photos to view larger.
12.01.2010
11.24.2010
WEDDING INVITE DESIGN
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I created these invitations for our wedding with a lot of help from my fiance (now wife). We had a below average budget for these so we had to keep it simple and be creative. We had fun shopping around at various paper stores, art stores and I have to admit craft stores. We bought all our paper from papersource and designed/illustrated, printed, and cut everything ourselves.
Below are images of our ceremony program and the menu card used at our reception.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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10.28.2010
HONEYMOON
The last few months have been awesome and busy. I am sure you could tell by my lack of posting. Just a couple weeks ago I tied the knot with my totally awesome and beautiful wife. We celebrated and relaxed on our honeymoon in Mexico. We had a great time just laying around on the beach, swimming with fish (and seeing dolphins) and riding bikes. Here are a few photos. A few more are on Flickr and a few more might appear later.
A big "thank you" to everyone who celebrated with us on our special day. Wedding photos will be around soon.
Hopefully, now I will get back to posting on a regular basis. Enjoy!
9.22.2010
KINGDOM EXPERIMENT MAKES PRINT MAGAZINE
Print magazine recently announced the winners of the 2010 Regional Design Annual and The Kingdom Experiment
published by The House Studio was selected as a winner in I worked on this project with fellow designer JR Caines.
Look for the Regional Design Annual in December.
More about the design.
NEW ATLANTIS
UPDATE: Approved cover design.
New Atlantis
Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans
John Swenson
Oxford University Press
Description from OUP:
At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis , journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical artists working to save America's most colorful and troubled metropolis: New Orleans.
The city has been threatened with extinction many times during its three-hundred-plus-year history by fire, pestilence, crime, flood, and oil spills. Working for little money and in spite of having lost their own homes and possessions to Katrina, New Orleans's most gifted musicians--including such figures as Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, "Trombone Shorty," and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux--are fighting back against a tidal wave of problems: the depletion of the wetlands south of the city (which are disappearing at the rate of one acre every hour), the violence that has made New Orleans the murder capitol of the U.S., the waning tourism industry, and above all the continuing calamity in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (or, as it is known in New Orleans, the "Federal Flood"). Indeed, most of the neighborhoods that nurtured the indigenous music of New Orleans were destroyed in the flood, and many of the elder statesmen have died or been incapacitated since then, but the musicians profiled here have stepped up to fill their roles. New Atlantis is their story.
Packed with indelible portraits of individual artists, informed by Swenson's encyclopedic knowledge of the city's unique and varied music scene--which includes jazz, R&B, brass band, rock, and hip hop--New Atlantis is a stirring chronicle of the valiant efforts to preserve the culture that gives New Orleans its grace and magic.
A CHARITABLE DISCOURSE
Approved book cover design.
A Charitable Discourse
Talking About the Things that Divide Us
Dan Boone
Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City
8.02.2010
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
(Click on images to view larger)
7.29.2010
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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