Equal Education for all

PEAC is sponsoring the Eastern Pennsylvania Higher Education Summit on Inclusion: Monday, June 7th and Friday, June 11. Hosted by Jerry G. Petroff, Ph.D. of the College of New Jersey. For further information, visit www.paedforall.org.

striking package design

Recently returning from New Orleans, my mother returned with some special treats: Aunt Sally's Pralines! I don't like Pralines but love the packaging. Attention to detail creates a period piece reminiscent of an old candy shop and a crisp, enticing package. Now to figure out who designed them....

New Card Designs

Above you'll see three new plastic designs for a T-Mobile promotion. The client was looking for exciting cards to be handed out as freebies during Tradeshows. The bottom two are animated to show the effect of using "layered art," which involves printing on both sides of clear plastic, probably acrylic. This requires at least four (4) passes through a press. Starbucks, Apple and Target use layered plastics when creating their giftcards.

Whatever Wednesday

Illustrator Maira Kalman spoke at the ICA in Philadelphia last night. She is quite charming; I see why she has an immense following (mostly of blue-haired, female hebrews). I must be honest — I don't really follow her work and have not yet read this book, but a designer I respect gifted it to me and well, I felt I owed it to him to attend this event and exhibition. I'm glad I did. I learned multiple things tonite: I really must read Kalman's illustrated version of the Elements of Style, the Director of ICA Philadelphia, Claudia Gould, is obnoxious and absurdly dressed, and there are many, many jewish people of all hair colors in this world. There was also a cake for Abraham Lincoln's birthday and I now have Maira Kalman's signature to add to my collection of signed books (which includes 2 items, Maira Kalman and Chip Kidd — hey you gotta start somewhere).

Business Card Inspiration

Seeking inspiration for business card design? Card Observer and OMG, it even has a watermark. There is some great work on these sites. Miles is one of my favorites.

New Business Cards!!

I am obviously not a hand model.

PDA 2011

Here we come.

designer undisclosed

Check out my cousin's recital flyers. I'm not sure if she did these, but whoever did def. has an appreciation for type and detail. I'm impressed!!

illustrations

Here are some illustrations I'm creating for PEAC, a freelance client. These icons will illustrate the values of PEAC, an organization that hopes to strengthen inclusive education, by encouraging people to work together, get involved, and strengthen communities, etc. We will probably print their brochure as one color. Click on the image to view a larger version.

CustomUSB

Vadim was very helpful recently as we were trying to order USB drives for an upcoming event. Their drives are VERY affordable. CustomUSB produces some incredible stuff.

Famous Letterheads

This site is a little screwy, but cool.

Too many Suds

The Great American Soap Overdose, by The Wall Street Journal. Yuch. This article was very interesting and beneficial, and also includes a neat interactive illustration (which they also printed) by Jason Schneider.

Be sure to read the comments! One guy mentioned how in Europe, when the efficiency washers first came out, they told everyone there was enough soap residue in their clothes that they didn't need to add any to their laundry loads the first couple washes. ich.