You might remember a couple years back, I designed a DVD set for Doug Rice's Bridalicious Boot Camp. Well, Doug has recently been hired by The Knot to be their Personal Trainer/Health and Fitness Guru Guy, so I got to do it again! This time, for one of the largest companies in the world! Or close to it.

So far the DVD wrap, disc facings, menus (on the DVD), DVD postcard insert, e-Books and action icons/logos have all been designed by yours truly. This has really been a cool project to work on, and seeing it all come together is magical!

The DVD is set to release on April 5, 2012! You can pre-order and learn more here.

I recently had the pleasure of designing a logo and an iPhone app icon for Friday Night Rivals, which is an app developed specifically for the Texas high school football community. As you may know, high school football is huge in Texas, so this app is a must have! You can follow your favorite teams, your favorite team's rivals, locations, upcoming schedules, live scores and more. Check it out the FNR web site or in the app store, it's free!

App Icon

Logo

These beautiful invitation sets were created for brides in Northern Maine (yet to be photographed) and Chicago, IL. The weddings of both of these brides are a bit more formal, as you can tell from the pearlescent paper stock and ribbon. It also has a more modern feel to it, with an off-centered gate fold and modern color schemes.

Click here to see/purchase these invitations from my Etsy shop!

 

I recently completed this wedding invitation set for a lovely bride from Wyoming. She's getting married at a lodge on top of a mountain, so the rustic feel of the invitations are just perfect for that mountain lodge/outdoors-y feel. Even more appropriately, we incorporated beautiful photos of them on the mountain! It's going to be a lovely wedding. I had such a wonderful time working with this bride to create these invitations, I wish her the very best on her big day!

Click here to see/purchase these invitations from my Etsy shop!

 

Today I was featured on FPO (For Print Only... online magazine featuring worthy print designs) for our wedding invitations! I'm sooo excited! This is such a huge accomplishment and it's some serious validation! 

You can read more about the thought process behind the overall concept in the feature, but overall I must say, this entire design package came together just as I envisioned it. Our wedding invitations were designed for us, based on our personalities, our wedding, the venue, our life, etc. So some of the comments on the post are understandable considering these weren't designed to please all people.

Design is subjective, and I'm aware that you can't please everyone. Initially I was a bit put off by a couple less positive comments from the public, so I went on this internal rant to defend my pieces and to remind myself that someone saw value in it to feature it in this online publication. And then I realized... that's not really what matters. Strange that it took actually getting featured to realize that. What matters is that it solved the design challenge it was set out to do... it was what the "client" wanted. It was that I got to use my creativity and skills freely, as my own client, and make this project what I (and we) wanted it to be. And like I said in my post, I wouldn't have changed a thing!