This year I opted to do my own calendar — and very last minute. Last year I picked up a calendar a couple months into the year, and I wasn’t going to repeat history this year. I wanted something simple + small and came up with one that I shared on Instagram a few days ago. With your response, I have decided to make it available in my Shop for a limited time! So if you haven’t picked up a calendar just yet, here’s your chance! You’ll find it here: Mini 2013 Desktop Calendar.

Everybody has got to have some classy business cards. Fresh from the print shop for Omega Industries:

Style Your Event, a party styling company, was launched by two friends of mine: Helen and Yana. So of course I was excited when they came to me to help them design a logo, business cards, advertisements, forms, etc. Of course lots of things changed as we progressed, as the ladies began to visualize more and more what they wanted their company to be.

The main inspiration for the logo was the Yves Saint Laurent logo. Helen and Yana really wanted a logo where the first letters of their company name could create a monogram: SYE. This proved to be more difficult than I thought since the individual letters were so hard to put together in the proper order and still have visual beauty.

But in the end, we came up with a winner. Script letters were chosen for the letters “SYE” since we had more room to tweak there and fill in strange white space. Helen and Yana really liked the idea of having two variations for their logo to use in dark or lighter spaces; and then the monogram was set aside for other projects and watermarks.

THE BUSINESS CARDS:

The standard size business cards were letterpress printed on white cotton paper with silver metallic ink. They sure do make your fingertips feel like royalty.

So that’s as far as it goes for now. We’re still working on other little projects here and there, but this was all that Helen and Yana wanted at the moment. Their new website {styleyourevent.com} is still under construction, but the page has links to their Twitter feed and Facebook page, so visit them there to see their portfolio.

When Jennifer of Zinchuk Films came to me asking me to redesign their logo, I was more than happy to go on that adventure with them. They wanted to make their whole look completely different. The Zinchuks have a special meaning in the sparrow and really wanted it to be a part of their logo. After various different shaped sparrows were presented before them, they chose this one and then picked out a font and colors. Here’s the final logo:

Next stop was to design their business cards with an ec0-green, recycled feel. The chosen paper was a freckled off-white paper that is composed of 50% post-consumer fibers. What do you think?

Photos by Zinchuk Films.