Friday, September 23, 2011

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Monday, July 25, 2011

Mushroom


cute tutorial found here
(lots of great stuff on that site)

Friday, July 22, 2011

Purim Parade

Some fun logo designs for the Providence Purim Parade


















Moskowigs

Sheitel Macher (wig stylist) logo and promotional products




Logo/Product Label

the lines in the "oven" are for writing contents of bakery box

Hand Washing Placard

This was created as an 8.5x11 wall sign to hang over a kitchen sink for kiruv purposes.
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Please note, G-d's name appears in the text, classifying this is sheimos.
A line about speaking before eating bread should probably be added... :)

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Global Project

Designs for an exporting company's logo.
I was told nothing about the company or their design desires, except for "something a little better than what I could come up with using Paint"
As helpful as that was... i decided to give them a 'global' feel

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Monday, February 14, 2011

Always Sign a Contract

Recently, a few friends have asked me to come up with some logos and/or monograms.

Unfortunately for me, i haven't asked them to sign a contract or for deposits up front because "who needs such things when working with friends?" -- WRONG!

So here i am, having wasted a few hours and brain cells - not to mention the hand pain incurred (carpal tunnel -- cliche, i know).... only having to receive the latest reply along the same lines of "Oh, my business partner ended up creating a design himself, but thanks."

One organization actually emailed me late at night frantically begging for some designs to be submitted by 9am the next morning. I checked with them in the morning and they were still desperate for some designs... Many hours after submitting the designs they were 'so desperate' for, i sent an email asking what they thought, only to receive a similar "oh, we went with another idea"

So, now i need to come up with a simple contract for clients stating something along the lines of 'client will pay artist $X upon completion of project, with $X due at start of project as a non-refundable deposit...full payment due before sending final design...'?

Any ideas?

Then again i'll need some actual rates and deposit amounts...

i know one graphic designer who charged $150 (about 6 years ago) for wedding monograms which included an initial 6-8 ideas.

Will an 'electronic signature' hold up?

I'll need to 'watermark' all samples/ideas i send out but how do i know someone won't end up taking my ideas (having them re-created if they are obscured by watermark) and running to someone else to do their design?