Monthly Archives: September 2010

Casa De Kraftmaid – Website Design

This past week I was brought in to work with a few other designers on a site to advertise a large estate auction in Moreland Hills, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland).  The house is being sold by the founder of … Continue reading

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Invitation shminvitation

Here is an invitation I made to a private art showing Gretchen Reifsnyder is having in the fall.  Her paintings can be seen at watercolors1.blogspot.com. This is the front, which uses a painting of hers that she selected. The information … Continue reading

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Who knew the tilde could do so much?

So I just found out a trick using the tilde key in Adobe Illustrator.  If you hold it down while you make a shape, it continuously makes the shape everywhere the mouse goes, so you get interesting wire-frame drawings.  I … Continue reading

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It’ll Tickle Your Innards!

I found out from a recent episode of Mad Men that Mountain Dew used to be advertised as hillbilly joy juice.  It was promoted as “zero proof hillbilly moonshine” when it first came out in the 1940′s.  They even had a … Continue reading

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Facts about Famous Brands – from GraphicDesignBlog.org

Interesting article about how 10 famous brands got their names. Click the picture or the link below for the jump. http://www.graphicdesignblog.org/facts-about-famous-brands/

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