Play Poll: Pick Your Party Kitchen

Let's talk a little about kitchen aesthetics. Some people prefer white country kitchens with painted floors, some like clean, open floorplans and vaulted ceilings, other people love natural cabinets and dark granite countertops and industrial barstools. 

Well, Charlotte told me she likes white and she likes pink. She loves a good clean, Swedish country look, but she is a little girl who likes people to know she's a girl, too! So she's pretty torn about which look to go for in her new kitchen. She'll be unveiling the new look on Christmas Day, but before then, she needs your imput! Which kitchen design should she choose?

KidKraft White Prairie Kitchen

KidKraft Home Cookin' Kitchen

While we're featuring great new kitchen looks, let's not forget about appliances. Here are a few sleek new products that would look great in any kitchen. 

Don't forget about cute linens. Don this checked apron and you'll be whipping up a batch of cookies in no time flat!

I'd like to leave you with this image of such a breathtaking wedding cake. Maybe once Charlotte gets her dream kitchen, she'll have more time to devote to creating beauties like this! Don't forget to cast your vote for Charlotte's kitchen!

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New Work: Prime book and SL sell shirt

Well, it's officially wedding season around here, and I literally can't even remember what year it is, because in addition to wrapping up some invitations for this fall, I'm also working on next year's season: invitations for 2012! But before posting images of work from upcoming nuptials, "I do" want to share some work I did in the spring. I had the opportunity to work with some friends from my old stomping grounds, Student Life. This year I designed the summer sell shirt and a 42-page section in Prime, the last Bible study book in a series of six.

The sell shirt was Andy-Warhol inspired and featured the "heart, soul, strength" concept found in Deuteronomy 6:5. I wanted to streamline those three ideas into a working icon which could be used for each--hands shown in three different positions. We used hot colors, halftones to simulate overprinting, and a grid to reference pop art screen printing. 

Art Direction: Dana Humphreville, Events Resource Manager


Student Life Bible Study books hold a unique place in the market in that they are fully graphic. I had the chance to design a 42-page section on "misfits"--people in the Bible who walked by faith and were thus treated as outcasts. The art direction for this section called for a vintage circus/freak show look. We hit the jackpot and found high-resolution royalty-free vintage circus posters, many of which I was able to edit to show our section headers rather than existing headlines. This was such a fun section because I got to use great display typefaces, rich imagery, lots of overlays, and bold color. Each page represented a day's Bible study and thus had to work as a single page as well as part of a spread.

Project Editor: Jeremy Maxfield
Creative Direction: Drew Francis


Want to see more of my design work? Check out my portfolio!

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