Crafterella Cupcake – Biz Card & Etsy Identity

After reaching 50 fans on the ThinkDoBeCreate Facebook fan page, I invited fans to “like” a series of status updates to place their name in the hat for a free business card design. You can see the winner drawing on the fan page.

Korinne Zimmerman, aka “Crafterella” on twitter and Etsy, won. She is in the process of opening a new Etsy shop called Crafterella Cupcake, and so requested the use of the delicious pastry in pink and green and Kawaii-style. After approving the biz card design, she then requested ThinkDoBeCreate’s services to also create a banner and avatar for her Etsy shop. The following are the results of this project.

BONUS: Screencast tutorial of creating cute vector cupcakes after the images.

PRISMATIC

PRISMATIC is a new website for University of Nebraska-Lincoln Advertising Majors. I started on this project almost two years ago. Initially, it was myself and my supervising professor, Stacy James, who picked me out of her class to help with this special project. The first stage of the project was the previous entry, the advertising uncommons.

The second stage involved creating a team to help carry out the objectives I had created for the site. Over the past year we have been working on a visual identity. PRISMATIC was a name I initially chose because advertising is such a colorful business, literally and figuratively. Additionally, the UNL Ad Major is to students as a prism is to light: they enter as one but leave with the skills and knowledge to accomplish many things.

For this, the official logo of the PRISMATIC mission, the prism graphic was originally created by fellow team member Abigail Powers. Typography, graphic placement, and color scheme were my responsibility.

I am also the interactive designer for our website, now in it’s third phase. You can check on the progress of this project at unl-ad.me

the advertising uncommons

This Flash micro-site was created for my pitch to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Advertising professors to gain approval to move forward with a new website to connect past, present, and future UNL Ad students. You can view the progress on that site by visiting: PRISMATIC

The advertising uncommons received a 2009 Nebraska Silver Student ADDY.

Awesome Camp – Logo & Website

The above was the final logo chosen for the Lincoln, NE event Awesome Camp. In short, Awesome Camp brought together Lincoln area creatives, communicators, and entrepreneurs for a day of sharing and networking. Read More »

Agricultural Ark

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This photo manipulation was created as a metaphorical representation of Nebrakan agriculture. The straw ark ridden by farm animals on a sea of corn will bring salvation from starvation.

The ark was created from a single square hay bale image. The bull is one of my family’s own, and the sky image was one I snapped over the family farm. The corn and other animal images were licensed by Creative Commons.

Quivira Capital – Logo & Company Website

I received the Quivira Capital project through a sub-contract with Social Buzz Media. They were helping Quivira Capital learn to use social media for their business. Their current website and logo, however, were in need of an update. Read More »

NGC – Company Website

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New Generation Construction Group, inc., contacted me to create a very basic site for their company. The four page site includes two text pages, a project image gallery, and a contact form. Read More »

Innoveering Nebraska -Logo Identity

Lora Mae Frecks, the owner of Innoveering Nebraska, originally intended her business to be titled simply “Innoveering.” But due to e-mail not always being the clearest way to communicate, I used “Innoveering Nebraska” in the first round of logos I sent her. She was so pleased with the directions the design was taking that she officially changed the name of the business.

Big changes brought about by great design making me rethink everything!

-Lora


ChristyNelson.net – Wordpress Theme Modification

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Christy Nelson is a craft blogger based in Lincoln, NE. She started blogging on Blogger, but contacted me when she was ready to move to a self-hosted Wordpress blog. Christy picked out and purchased the theme VintMint from WP Now which I then modified to better suit her brand image. 99% of the graphic elements of this theme needed to be modified. No Photoshop file was included in the theme package. Read More »

Chris – Vector Portrait

This vector portrait was created for Chris Rikli: software developer, Drupal aficionado, and owner of Anova Solutions.