“For what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?” —concluding line of the Nürnberg Stove by Ouida, 1892
On April 3, 2009, a two-year-old named Aiden Silva was featured on “Live with Regis and Kelly” where he demonstrated his geographical proficiency acquired from playing with GEOtoys™ puzzles. This whiz-kid’s media coverage was legendary for my friend, Bob Galinsky, the founder and president of GEOtoys, LLC, and product designer Karina Cutler-Lake, my graphic design professor from UW-Oshkosh.
Picking up on this job where my friend left off, never in my life have I said the word “superb” so frequently. After a few sitdowns, phone coversations, and long winter months, my freelance partner and I thought we had the content and functionality wrapped up. But, there was still a problem…
After small design blunder with a logo for Stoddart Support Solutions — black interlocking s’s inside of a red oval take on a dark nature, whoops… ha! — my second concept was chosen and brought to life on some new business cards. The goals were wide open yet still ended up in a quick turnaround:
After a good 2–3 year run, TiDy Photography v.2 has been retired and new photo-lava began flowing…
I’ve always had fun time doing logo/identity work and this time it was for a friend and colleague of mine.
“Hey Mike, how’s it going? I need a website.”
Ok, have any idea what you want it to look like? Oh, it’s up to me? Cool, what do you want on your site? All you have is a single page word document? Mmm'kay… i guess… um, just send me all the content you have and we’ll go from there…
