For several years, my husband and I were theater teachers at Lake Nokomis Community School, Keewaydin Campus, in South Minneapolis. Our performers were in grades 3-8 – and really, were so much more than performers. Our program gave them the opportunity to decide what their play was about, what genre they wanted to write in, …
I took the photo and photoshopped it, as well creating the ‘graffiti’ wings in Illustrator. I then created the postcard in InDesign and packaged separately for print and web. Again, I took the photos for this and created the image in photoshop. I then put the ad together in InDesign and packaged separately for print …
The owner of ML Microscope came to me needing a logo, a postcard to send to clients, and technical labels to be placed on his product, which are surgical microscopes. He wanted simple with clean lines, easily recognizable to clients at a glance. The postcard was intended as an introduction to his clients since he …
The MN Pickleboys is a vendor at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Every year they sell buttons with cute pickle slogans on them. They were looking some new designs this year and asked me to produce them. Here are some of my creations.
Lara Weisse, an eco-landscaper who adapts gardens to a natural environment, asked me to design a logo for her company, Simplement Jardin (Simply Garden). We started with the idea that she wanted to demonstrate the direct relationship between the earth and sun. We added the imagery of the cycle of life and days with a …
Assignment: I made vectors, then removed portions to give it the effect of dissolving, then added a falling powder effect that piles up. The vanilla logo includes the orchid and then a circle of the beans as they go from freshly picked to dried and ready to use. Also a vector drawing done in Adobe …
In spring 2021, I was asked to design the t-shirts for participants and fans of the Midwest Morris Ale. Morris Dancers across the Midwest and from far away places joined the Ale virtually, but were together in spirit. They wanted the theme to reflect their determination to continue the Ale despite the pandemic, so they …
