Arts & Minds Logo Concepts

I was contacted by a school in California looking for logo concepts for a new fundraising campaign. Here are a couple of the designs I created. I am very happy with my results!



Title: Arts & Minds Logo Concepts
Software: Illustrator

Urban Parks and Gradens Magazine Cover & Spread

Title: Urban Parks and Gardens
Software: InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop

Olympic Poster and Logo

Title: 2008 Beijing Olympics Poster & Logo
Software: Illustrator

Brand Identity - The Sushi Co.

For this assignment we were to redeisgn a logo for an exsisting company or a made-up one. I chose to create a logo for a fictitious sushi restaurant. For the final mounted presentation I also created chopstick sleeves, pinback buttons, a take-out bag and t-shirt designs.




Title: The Sushi Co.
Software: Illustrator

Logo Redesign Assignment

Back to school and back to homework. One of the first assignments in my new Commercial Art class at Madonna University was to design a logo for myself and then we had to switch with another person in the class and redesign their logo. We had to keep in mind what the other person wanted to convey with their logo. Jackie, whose logo I redesigned (and who preferred her middle name Amy), wanted to convey duality or opposites. These are just a few of the designs I came up with. Overall I think this a was a very clever assignment!


Title: Logo Redesign Assignment
Software: Illustrator

Silly Monkey Designs

I recently opened up a Cafepress shop to sell some of my Silly Monkey designs. I thought it might be a good way to make some extra money to help pay for school. Available are various t-shirts for men and women, baby clothes and bibs, hats, tote bags and note cards. Check it out!





Title: Silly Monkey Designs
Software: Illustrator

Buttons, buttons, buttons!

Title: TV Dinner Monsters
Software: Illustrator
My wonderful husband gave me a button making machine for my birthday. I plan on incorporating a lot of my graphic design work into the buttons I make. I'll post them as I make them! These buttons are available from my Etsy shop Barrel of Monkeys.






Title: Holga, I Love Pirates and Pug Power buttons
Software: Illustrator

Combining Graphic Design with Jewelry Design

Among all the art that I do, fiber art - paper art - graphic art, jewelry design is one of my favorites. Recently I decided to take elements of my graphic design work to create pendants using shrink plastic (yes, shrinky dinks from the good old days). These little pieces of art are now available from my Etsy shop Barrel of Monkeys.




Title: Little Shrink Plastic Pendants
Software: Illustrator



Title: TtV Shrink Plastic Pendants
Software: Photoshop & Illustrator
For these pendants I used a few of my TtV (Through the Viewfinder) photographs.



Title: Colorful Bird Shrink Plastic Pendant
Software: Illustrator