What is Successful Brand Development?
What is successful brand development? Successful brand development really comes down to one thing, creating a sensorial experience. Does your design make the consumer emotionally feel the product? Does your design make the consumer taste the product, desire the product enough to want to buy the product? Theses are the questions you really need to ask yourself when looking at …
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Shutterbug Magazine Ads
It is always exciting to see something published you designed or contributed for the first time, whether it is an editorial, photo shoot, or even an ad you designed. Below are some recent ads I designed for Backdrop Outlet for Shutterbug Magazine. You may notice the digital code on the bottom of each ad which is called a QR code. …
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Free Photography Stickers?
Lets face it, everyone knows photographers are really cool and creative. If you can’t be a rock star, then next coolest thing is being a photographer. What better way to show off your status than to put one of these bad boys on your car, notebook, laptop, mirror, or anywhere else that is visible. Just not on your forehead like …
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Shopping Bag Recycling At Its best
My good friend Jenny Grumbles, owner of Uptown Country Home is once again doing her recycled bag program this coming weekend. It’s a great little program that helps reduce the waste of shopping bags and also saves the customer some extra cash with the discount she gives them for bringing in old shopping bags. Jenny gave me the challenge of …
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September 11th
We can do more for humanity and show more respect for those who have fallen by taking a few quiet moments for ourselves to send love to all that have suffered and to all beings that are currently suffering. Without suffering we could not have compassion, suffering is innate within all living beings and is the one thing that brings …
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Happiness, The Ever-going Pursuit
Through out time Humans have searched for the meaning of life and their purpose here. From the Scholars and intellectuals of ancient times to modern leaders of thought, happiness has been an ever-going pursuit that we have strived for. Is happiness something every living being can have? If so where can we find it? The life long answer to this …
Read More →Do We Create Our Destiny?
Do you think we create our destiny? What if our thoughts become our words. Our words become our actions. Our actions become our habits. And our habits become our character. Do you think it is possible that our character creates our destiny. If so it’s probably in our best interest to watch our thoughts pretty closely. One of my favorite …
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The Catalogs Under My Mattress
In high school I started collecting Tall Bearded Irises. When my friends had girly magazines I had the Schreiner’s Gardens Catalog hidden under my mattress. I would spend hours looking at all the different colored irises and to this day I am still amazed at the array of colors they come in. Did I feel guilty that I wanted all …
Read More →Big Wheels, Gardening, and Tractor Rides
Growing up there were three things that I loved most in my early childhood. My first love was my CHiPs Big Wheel and man was this thing fast. I can remember it like it was yesterday pedaling as fast as my skinny legs could down my parent’s hill and slamming on the breaks to throw it into a sideways drift. …
Read More →Gardening Heals The Soul
Gardening and nature have always been a big part of my life growing up. Some of my fondest memories from childhood were with my Grandfather in his garden. Playing hide and seek throughout the rows of corn, picking fresh peas and force-feeding my dog Katy because if I had to eat them, well so did she. I can remember sitting …
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