Monthly Archives: January 2012

A rare moment for a graphic designer

Every so often a project presents itself and you just have to realize that you must have done something right along the way to be fortunate enough to be involved.

Today was a rare moment for a freelance graphic designer. We almost never get to see a printed piece received by an audience.
I was thrilled to be invited to a reception honoring Marcia G. Taylor for her generosity and commitment to the Henry County, Georgia community.
I was able to see firsthand, the reactions on people’s faces when they viewed the women’s journal I had a hand in creating. One sweet lady even asked me to sign it.

This book was by no means the product or effort of any one individual. It was a collaboration of the finest variety. From the marketing directors and project managers, to the photographer, to the writer, and to the beautiful people in the photographs…it was a labor of love.

View the entire journal here:
The Marcia G. Taylor Women’s Center at Piedmont Henry Hospital – Women’s Journal
(This is a tabbed book, so some pages are larger than others. If you click on the link above to view it, you will see that the program used to create the interactive magazine format adds a white bar on the edge of the smaller pages. Blech. Please try and overlook that. )


2012 – and I still have one foot in the past

Lots of good things coming, but for just a second I want to talk about my penchant for old things – Vintage.

While in one of my favorite cities – Savannah, over my break during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, my sister and I stole away from the pack and got in some much appreciated antique mall time together. Picker sisters (kind of), but neither one of us likes to get too dirty or work that hard to find our treasures. It is one of my favorite and most happy pastimes.

On this particular outing we were in unfamiliar territory and still managed to sniff out one of the finer antique malls in Savannah. It was a small place on one of the many scenic squares just off Broughton Street. If my SCAD student is reading this maybe she can post a comment and remind me of the name.

I gravitate towards “visual artist/graphic designer” type geek stuff; old paintboxes, signs and letterforms, cameras and designer tools of a bygone era.

This little gem is like a mini overhead projector. Have only plugged it in once, but it works! Basically you just lay it on an image and it projects on a wall…or whatever. Gets mighty hot, so I am not sure I will trust it for long periods. I just LOVE the looks of it, and it will probably just sit there on my vintage book case with my other vintage thingamabobs looking pretty and nostalgic.

For all you vintage geeks out there..it’s BAKELITE! WHOOP WHOOP!

Happy treasure hunting. Tell me about your finds!

projector


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