Love Your Dog

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Art, Design, Dogs, Finders Keepers, Graphic Design, Printmaking 1674 Views

Source: Cody Haltom Cody created this piece for a traveling exhibition and poster campaign. Artists around the country were asked to create works that raise awareness of social and political issues. I love the minimalist approach. This would be a cute way of doing custom dog portraits.

Jamie BartlettLove Your Dog

Finders Keepers: Wacom Inkling

Jake Blog Post Finders Keepers, Graphic Design, Technology, Video 915 Views

Source: Youtube Wacom has been making pressure sensitive digital drawing tablets for over 25 years now. The tablets allow you to use a stylus pen to more organically draw on a computer. In 2009 I purchased my first tablet, and Jamie and I have used it on a number of projects. It’s very effective, but definitely takes a lot of

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The Face of Type “C”

Jake Blog Post Design, For the Taking, Graphic Design, The Face of Type, Typography 2756 Views

Last month was  Jamie’s favorite, and September is mine. And it’s my favorite for the same reason: this month is my birthday! This month’s “Face of Type” is our personal favorite, Clarendon. It’s a clean, slab-serif font named after the Clarendon Press in Oxford. It was the first typeface to be registered and patented, but expired after three years and

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JakeThe Face of Type “C”

Charting the Beatles

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Artist, Design, Graphic Design, Music 1435 Views

I just recently came across these illustrations of the Beatles created by Oliver Barrett for his Charting the Beatles project. Aren’t they just lovely? I’m starting to run out of space on the walls of our little apartment, but I think I could make a little more room for these. Prints are available at imagekind.

Jamie BartlettCharting the Beatles

Wedding invitation

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Clients, Custom Work, Design, Graphic Design, Invitation, Wedding 3637 Views

You might have already seen this invitation in our design gallery we put up last week, but I wanted to write a post about it too just in case you missed it. I love it when people come to me wanting wedding invitations. It’s such a different feel from the more corporate designs we do, which it why I love it. The

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Pleasant Surprise from Poppytalk

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Design, Graphic Design, Packaging, Poster 1110 Views

A couple weeks ago Poppytalk blogged about redesigning their site. They were asking for the readers options. If you left a comment you could be selected to win a $25 gift from their handmade market. So of course Jake and I left a comment, but I really wasn’t expecting to win. It seems to me, I’m one of those people

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Come Visit Traverse City!

Jake Blog Post Competition, Design, Graphic Design, Michigan, T-Shirt, Traverse City 2108 Views

One of our favorite places to buy t-shirts, Threadless.com, is hosting a themed designed competition right now. The theme is “Your City” and you’re supposed to design a shirt that represents your favorite city. Well, Jamie and I have been wanting to design something for Traverse City (my hometown and where we were married) pretty much ever since our wedding.

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A Vintage Birthday

Jamie Bartlett Blog Post Birthday, Decor, Design, Graphic Design, Home Video, Invitation, Party, Photography, Video, Vintage 2324 Views

My birthday has come and gone and I’m yet another year older. Remember back in July when I was trying to think of a theme for my party? Well I had decided that this year I would throw a vintage party! I had such a fun time planing everything. I even sent out invitations in the mail (which I haven’t done since

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A Pair of Pears Design

Jake Blog Post Design, Gallery, Graphic Design, Website 1190 Views

Well it’s a long time coming, but over the weekend Jamie and I put in about 20 hours of work to officially finish our very first design gallery! You can go check it out by clicking the design button up on the navigation pane, or by clicking here. Here are a few screenshots of a couple of the pages. Since

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JakeA Pair of Pears Design

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