12/31

happy new year! thank you for following my blog and for leaving such kind comments. I have a fun theme for the month of january...see you in 2010!

12/30

hmmm...well, this is my place to kind of experiment...

12/29

12/28

12/27

I did this for American Greetings a few years back...the grey is silver foil.

12/26

sometimes the ornaments need a little rest after hanging from the tree all the time...

beautiful book

I received this book as a christmas gift...every single page is inspiring, beautiful and compelling...the kind you can easily get lost in and look at for hours. thank you katie...

12/25

merry christmas! this is from our tree!

peace + joy

bundt cake

another page from my holiday book...

12/24

yum!

nate + I made little holiday books (cuz we are addicted to making those tiny mac books)...this is one of my favorite pages...

12/23

a tree I did for Gartner Greetings...

more holiday

I need to start feeling a bit more festive...

12/22

I did this design for American Greetings a long time ago...

12/21

12/20

oh. I think the easter project I'm working on is influencing the tree series...

2010 winter olympics

"HOW" magazine has a section about the graphics for the 2010 winter olympics...they are really great...check 'em out.

12/19

this is the goofy stuff I sit and do at 6 a.m. while I'm drinking coffee and waiting to drive the ninth grader to swim practice...well, actually david drives him...and I continue to doodle.

12/18

I did this handmade comp for the Paper Magic Group years ago and at the time thinking I was so clever. ha. It wasn't easy cutting out all of those little red flocked pieces...

12/17

this is one of nate's trees also....but it looks like one of mine! I particularly like the tree stand.

prana label

who doesn't love a well designed hang tag...

12/16

12/15

tomorrow's tree will be much more festive...

12/14

illustration friday topic -"hatch"

illustration friday topic is HATCH..as in their plan was hatched over lots of coffee...

12/13

I was needing an image to help quiet me and take everything down a few notches...

12/12

day 12 of my month of trees and already redefining "tree"...

happy hanukkah

12/11

I've been seeing so much of this color palette this season that I thought I'd put together a reference sheet and try a design using these colors...I love the little burst of spring green.

nate in SF

while studio partner nate is luxuriating in SF for a few months, I am here in cleveland all brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....at 19 degrees.

12/10

I did these trees several years ago for Paper Magic Group and still really like them...

12/9

I'm totally cheating...this is one of nate's trees.

12/8

I really could sit here making these leaf-trees all day...but I have some tricky mother's day cards to figure out...

12/7

artcraft holiday show

cleveland has some really great holiday craft shows....here are some of my favorite things from the recent artcraft fair. kris barnes makes these incredibly sweet knitted creatures...check out her website here. And some lovely bracelets from a wonderful jeweler that I discovered last year at a show in columbus...check out Kathryn Patton on her etsy site here.

12/6

12/5

frivolous friday

clearly I have better things to do with my time...but I couldn't resist...

12/4

12/3

illustration friday topic-"entangled"

these lights may be all entangled but at least they work!

Grey Colt

some new things at the Grey Colt...I seriously need the hat to endure chilly cleveland...

12/2

month of trees

every day for the entire month of december I am going to post a new illustration of a tree...

new website postings

this is one of the 10 new postings on our website ... click here to visit ...

holiday

all of my favorites...the drop shadow, interlocking shapes and the contained pattern...