Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how our personal style tends to cross over into our professional work. After all, as designers, isn’t the reason we get hired, at least in part, based on our past work, neatly tucked into our portfolios for others’ viewing pleasure? As a designer, I never try to limit [...]

Often, the projects that I’m working on are on-site for huge companies and can stretch on for months at a time…but some of my personal favorites are the smaller jobs that might comprise of a singular piece. In this case, I created a template for an oversized promo card for long-time client Luke Copping. With [...]

Every year, as December winds down, I set aside a chunk of time to update my corporate identity. I use this as an opportunity to ask myself what has changed about my brand in the last year and to explore new design influences. Though, this isn’t all for fun — as a freelancer, I require [...]

Slowly but surely, I’ve been wrapping up big projects, some of which managed to span across many months. One of these clients is Sweet Caroline Photo, a wedding photography business ran by Caroline out of Austin, Texas. Caroline was a unique case because she came to me with an already established business complete with a [...]

Aroha Silhouettes Jewelry Tag I’m still trying to keep my promise to show more of the projects that go on behind the scenes at Nubbytwiglet.com. One of my favorite projects this year has been creating an updated logo for Aroha Silhouettes, a Canadian jewelry company. Earlier this year Tania, the owner of Aroha contacted me. [...]

Marie & Eve Often, I’m guilty of being too busy jumping from one job to the next, only to forget about the work that I’ve completed as it languishes away in a folder, somewhere deep in the depths of my hard drive. I’ve decided that I need to get better about sharing the outcomes! Over [...]

The Molly Crabapple identity is still one of my all-time favorites. Back in March, I designed some business cards for the New York-based illustrator and founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. Once that was completed, Star and I worked together to redesign her blog. Last month, I revisited the Molly Crabapple brand when she requested [...]

Performer Veronica Varlow is one of those rare women who seem to have it all — brains, beauty and the heart and soul that backs it all up. She is inspiring because against all odds, she still managed to find a way to live her dream. Her story is a fascinating one. Taken from her bio: [...]

To finish off the week, I thought I’d contrast the angular, masculine identity of Josh Fassbind with the pink, super girly look of Rock n’ Roll Bride. Kat, who runs Rocknrollbride.com contacted me with the intentions of giving her blog a slight facelift. She’s friends with another of my clients, wedding photographer David McNeil and [...]

Last year, I designed a collection of goggles for Smith Optics, a premium brand of goggles, sunglasses and helmets. Each of the styles feature my collage-based art and male, female and unisex models will be available for purchase in 2011. Back in 2008, I had a solo art show at Portland agency Nemo HQ. Later, [...]