whatevs (now in two flavors!)

I dedicate this to all my fellow vinyl-listenin', skinny-jeans-wearin', mustache-groomin', bicycle-ridin', Instagram-usin' hipsters. Oh, and Natterbubs.

Being married to Natalie has taught me (among other things) that I'm WAY more of a hipster than I'd like to believe. But I guess that's not necessarily a bad thing. I save a ton of money on razors.

I did two color schemes to try to mix things up. Personally, I like the blue.

little blue bowties

it's another patterned wallpaper from me. are you surprised?

this little baby is a product of my participation in nicole's classes. 

(jonathan told you a little about it in the previous post.)

can you find the little, blue bowties?

hope you enjoy!

Traffic

So we're signed up for an Ornaments & Embellishments course through Nicoles Classes. They're a great place to go to learn more about Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Photography. This will be the third Illustrator class I've taken with them and I have loved them all! Every video lecture I've watched has had at least one "Ah ha!" moment that shows me a new trick for my designing arsenal.

Anyway, I was practicing making symmetrical objects and designing to a grid as part of this week's homework. I'm not entirely sure what I will do with all these traffic themed elements, but I'm sure they'll come in handy some day.

It's a 1024x1024 design, so you could still use it as a background on an iPad I guess. As always, feel free to suggest project ideas for Natalie and I to work on!

watch out for falling houses!

here's some wise words of advice from your friendly neighborhood wicked witch:

Pop

Here's a couple of pop pieces I did today.

 

Enjoy!

geometric? how eclectic!

not only do you get a wallpaper, but here's a weird fact about me:

i could LITERALLY stare at a pattern all day.
i would probably go blind and my brain would melt - but i LOVE finding shapes in patterns.

j and i have a geometric bedspread that i've found many shapes in.
including:
a man with antlers who is wearing a suit
a green pac man shooting triangles from his mouth
a row of neckties
a row of ice cream cones

basically i was inspired.
so here you go - your very own geometric wallpaper.

don't go too crazy staring at it, okay?
otherwise i'll just be worrying about you all day.

p.s. leave us some comments! we want to know what you guys want to see!

Party Invitations

So a friend of ours called over the weekend with a request. Her son is having a Cars themed birthday party and she wanted some invitations that look like tickets. Natalie and I got together and this is what we came up with!

This was my first time formatting one of our project for print. I learned a lot of practical stuff about layout (mostly that I need to take more InDesign classes!), but the people at Weber State University's copy center were really patient with my questions.

The end product came out as I had hoped! Let me know if you have any other projects for Natalie and I to get some experience with. I will do non-Disney work too! ;)