New Website

I am spending my day off focusing on "the business." So I went and bought a domain name since all the county stuff is official.

minordetailsdesign.net

There isn't anything there, yet. But it's hosted... and there will be something there eventually. Woo hoo!

Vendor Rave: Tower Graphics

So, I swung by the old Alphagraphics building on J Street to get Shirley's wedding invites trimmed and the envelopes finished. To my chagrin, Alphagraphics is no longer Alphagraphics. The owner broke away from the chain and is now Tower Graphics. I went in 30 minutes before closing and Bob, the owner helped me, no questions asked. Even brought me to the back of the shop to make sure all the pieces were cut correctly. (Very glad I did because some pieces were backwards... something Kinkos wouldn't catch! Ugh!)

When it came down to the envelopes, he recommended offset, which blew the budget. So we tried running the envelopes at the laser printer in the front office. They worked, so we hung out and fed the envelopes through. All before 6:00. I paid... and left. Very nice. None of this "it'll be ready in 48 hours" thing.

Visit them at www.tower-graphics.com

Shirley & Jody - Invites

Woo! This project is approved! Done! Now on to printing. Printing will be done by both moi and a little bit of Kinkos action. (Ugh!) Hopefully I can sneak into Alphagraphics on the way home tomorrow, as they are my first choice. Here is a sampling. (Note, my friend's last name is not Sangria... but it sounds cool.)

Refer-a-blog: Photoshop Disasters

Because my fellow design cohorts can sit and view this site and both laugh and hang their heads in shame. Don't worry... we've all been there I'm sure.

Photoshop Disasters

One More: Design Plug

Shirley and Jody (my buddies from another post) changed their minds on the design after it was submitted. They decided on a different path and theme, and this is what I came up for them. Oh how I wish I could draw... but the floral patterns are actually dingbats for a font I found on Dafont.com. You should definitely check it out if you are slightly illustration-challenged, like myself.

Veronica & Jim - invitations

*Note: important information has been changed to protect the couple from the wacky people on the internet. Though, a last name like "Whitesnake" might be kind of cool... in the 1980s. But I digress.

I helped redesigned/relayout this email-only invite recently for Veronica and Jim. Since it wasn't your typical print and mail invite, I was pretty excited to work with them. They were pretty happy with the result.

Shirley and Jody - Save the Dates

So since this blog was meant to showcase some of my stationary work, I thought it might be time to actually post some of my work. So here is the first one up to bat: save the date concepts for my high school gal pal, Shirley, and her fiance, Jody. Both wanted a vintage looking card featuring a record player circa the 1950s. But nothing too stuffy. So I came up with a fun little card they can send. They are still deciding on the colors though. The green is a little more classic looking, but the burgundy is part of their color palette.