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Event Graphics: Cocoa with Santa

I’m part of a fundraising group in my neighborhood. We’re raising money to get a better playground put it at a local park. My role in this group, along with general planning, has been as visual designer. The group is called Bridgeway Play. I created the name, and designed the logo and website. I’ve also […]

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MicroTrek Logo Concept Variations

On Tuesday, I shared the initial three logo concepts I designed for MicroTrek, a firm that does microbe analysis. Today, my client responded with a lot of helpful feedback. Here is my set of logo concept variations for concept 1, based on his reply. He called the yeast cells “bugs”, which is adorable. This is the email […]

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Logo Concepts and Engaging Your Client

MicroTrek, Inc. is a new biotech company that offers high quality microbial analysis of food and beverage samples. They have contracted with me to create branding and a website for them. Part of my scope of work is the create three logo concepts for them. They asked for imagery which looks like yeast cells. Setting […]

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Paint a dashed line with rounded corners in Photoshop

In Illustrator, it’s fairly easy to make a dashed line in which the dashes have rounded corners. In Photoshop, there’s more of a trick to it. I’ll show you how to do both here.    

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Make a Cartoony Pencil in Illustrator

I am currently working with a client who asked me to revise a logo concept I had drawn in Illustrator to be more cartoony or hand-drawn. He thought the original drawing looked too much like clip art. He was right. Luckily, I knew a technique to achieve this cartoony feel. I’ll show you how to […]