Sweet headline

Recent creation for "Current" newsletter, a publication of The Woodlands Convention & Visitors Bureau. B. Miller baked up several batches of alphabets, decorated to perfection. That was one tasty photo shoot. I confess to eating the letter X first, I knew that whatever the headline was going to be it wouldn't contain the letter X.

Designing presentations

If you design presentations - power point snore-fests, here is a useful resource. Anyone (almost) can make a presentation with software. But when you want to really communicate an idea with an audience they can easily process, that takes a lot more thought and skill than just throwing some bullet points into a template.

Slide:ology shows lots of examples and explains the process for creating interesting presentations. Yes, interesting.

Redesigned Children's Festival logo

After several presentations and rounds of revisions we have completed the the final version of the new Children's Festival logo.

A little background: the festival is in it's 14th year (this would be the 15th year, but the Pavilion was damaged by hurricane Ike last year and the event canceled). It is held at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands TX. The Pavilion, an outdoor concert theatre, has a very distinctive tent peak roof-line.

The CF has live "big name" entertainment (in the kiddo world anyway) Barney & Bob the Builder, etc. Tons of hands-on activities for kids with arts, science, exhibits and entertainment on the grounds of the Pavilion. A perennial favorite event is hat making.

The objective: Convey the active, fun, kid-centric nature of the Children's Festival. In the logo the hat /crown is also reminiscent of the roof peaks of the Pavilion. The Pavilion logo also features a star - less stylized than this one. The logo must also reproduce well in/on different media from magazine ad to embroidered shirt to large format signage. Also shown here is a page of logos that were part of the initial presentation of logo sketches. Great client, fun project.

More logo samples

Here are a few more logo designs from the portfolio.

Trio Homes

Logo design for home builder. The color version is the final version.

Icon depicts roof tops, three/trio. The sketches show a little

of the thought process that led us to the final version. First

brainstorming with pencil on paper, then refined on the computer. This is just a few of the actual sketches worked through as part of the design process.