Art Deco Suite

Here is the art deco suite mentioned in my previous post. They were printed with a metallic, antique pink ink. The two-sided, response postcard and two-sided, accommodation card were attached to a black cardstock with slotted corners, (like old photographs in a photo book), to make the suite organized. Then the invitation and cardstock were held together with a gorgeous, art deco ribbon I discovered on Etsy. I couldn't have found a more perfect ribbon to bring it all together.

The New Veil Magazine Is Out

And when I say "new", I mean entirely updated. I worked with Veil as creative director of the magazine for the 2012 Winter issue. It was a great experience to be involved in something so huge. I have worked with redesigning Hog Tales magazine at my former job as art director, but this was a bit more intensive. I wanted to update the whole magazine and bring it up to a more professional quality. Doing this involved updating each of the issue's 192 pages, including rerun pages, with new fonts and colors and possibly doing things only a crazy nut designer would appreciate or notice. Though these are major changes, there are many more updates I would hope to accomplish in the next issue. In the end, all those things, and HOURS, add up to a more polished product. I did have an intern work on a few pages throughout the process which made things a bit easier. In the end, I hope the clients recognize the updates, and the advertisers appreciate advertising with Veil all the more ... it makes all the hours I put into it worth it.

2012 Veil Winter Cover

 (For some reason, my updates were overlooked on the 

actual printed cover, so I'm showing the original here.)

ABOVE: Centennial Press + Design, advertorial (written by Charles Nevsimal)

BELOW: Various sampling of layouts in the new Veil 

Centennial Press Apothecary Line

My husband attends the bi-annual Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Conference and Centennial Press likes to present something new to sell at every event. This autumn, he concocted a line of apothecary that we offered for sale. Charles and his brilliant mind dreamt up the names and I designed and produced the labels to adhere to the bottles. We hope you enjoy ...

Chic Anniversary Invitations Photos

It has been quite some time since I've updated. But, now that the gorgeous party is over, I really want to share how my friend's invitations turned out. I think these are my favorite designs I have done since starting the invitation business. I really wanted them to be special for her because she's been so good to me and she deserves to have the perfect invitations! Below are a just a few snapshots we took of the invitations, I hope you enjoy. To finish the suite, I also designed and printed the menus, place cards, escort cards, favor tags, and thank you cards.

I am excited to see what the photographer did with them at the party. He was kind enough to shoot some professional photos for my portfolio, to be posted as soon as I get them!

Finished Invitations

Golden Chic has been so kind in sharing her impression of me and the Anniversary invitations I designed for her and her lovely husband on her blog here: Finished Invitations Thank you, Sara!

Chic Anniversary Invitations

I am so excited about the invitations I'm doing for my dear friend and business partner. They are very "chic" vintage and are turning out beautifully! I printed them up on my GOCCO yesterday with gold metallic ink. Stay tuned, I plan on finishing them up and posting the designs shortly!

Also, soon to update the Art Deco/Nouveau invitations. I'm excited about the direction they choose!

A very blessed Memorial Day everyone. Thank you to all our veterans. We also, deeply honor those in the armed forces who have gone before us for our country. May God grant peace to their loved ones.

Gorgeous Art Deco Artistry

I am working on designing an art deco style wedding invitation suite for a couple. I am just thrilled to be doing this design ... out of the concepts I presented, they choose the one that includes an art deco style music sheet for the invitation, and a vintage postcard design for the response cards. The art nouveau/deco is my among favorite eras that I just adore. Throughout my research I came across some amazing artists that I thought I'd share ...

GLADYS EMMA PETO

 

and

GEORGE BARBIER

Milwaukee Ballet Brochure

I had the opportunity to design the Milwaukee Ballet program brochure for the 09-10 season. It was a delightful project and I was so thrilled to be chosen to design and art direct the piece while at GS Design. I will never forget it because it was during a time my daughter was undergoing open heart surgery, and happened to be my final big job at GS. Sometimes I miss those days ... but being able to grow and learn with my daughter has taught me so much. I wouldn't have had it any other way.

As it turned out, I wasn't able to finish the final project myself. Being critical in every detail, the printing quality seemed to be less than perfect. So, I feel a desire to show a few of the original concepts I presented.