One of the local printers, Custom Printers, is creating a book of work from designers and design firms in the Grand Rapids area. Anyone could submit a page design with the them being "Spot On". Below is the page layout I created. The concept and theme of my design is finding the solution to the problem and trying to show this feeling of data, research, and accuracy to come to the final "spot on" solution. I can't wait to see how it turns out!

Our design collective, Parlour, submitted some poster designs for a new client event, the Celadon Summer Concert Series. Below are the concepts I submitted. It's already starting to feel like summer!

Awhile back, at my previous employment, another designer and myself were asked to create a promotional piece to promote a hypothetical trip for the marketing department. I chose to design an invitation and since the company is global, the theme I came up with was "away we go". I created different styled postcards, postage stamps, and a luggage tag. Each postcard gave details about the event, either a who/why, where, or when. I think this is a great example of how different papers can really play such a huge roll in design. I really enjoy creating cut-paper projects like this and my movie poster design and hope to be able to do more work like this in the future.

Recently myself and a few other designers/friends have started our own little design collective called Parlour. We don't have a website or anything up yet, but our first real client is for a local band called Those Eighty Acres. Below are some poster designs I created for them and they all seem to be pretty smitten with their new look. Hopefully we can get them screen printed on French Paper! Our group is considering purchasing a Yudu screen printer. It looks like it would work similar to my Gocco printer, which I love, but we'll see. Can't wait to do more work for them.

This year I was asked to design the materials for the 2010 Local Addy Awards. The theme was "Rock Your Addy Off". A few concepts were shown but below is the one that was chosen. From these mood boards I created a Call For Entries Mailer, Invitation, Billboards, Announcement Emails, and Award Certificates. Hope to see everyone on February 25th for the event!