I have been in a bit of a creative slump. Between, design projects that were poorly defined, and concepts that just completely failed to resonate with me, I have had to work hard to be more creative.  When I saw the AIGA article Relighting the Spark by Lisa Schneller I immediately clicked and read. The summation by Josh Levine really resonated with me. So I put together a little “poster” to remind me of this simple maxim.

The bg image is a little low res,  but the subject just is so good. And besides, this is just for me, so i’m ok with that.

My church asked me to do a slide for their next series…  I initially started a different direction thinking about the dullness of day to day life, but I really wasnt feeling most of them. While talking with the church leaders they said i should think about adventure in my piece, so this image is what resulted.

These were some of my discarded ideas. It was also helpful that they told me the correct name for the series

I did this for my church. I wanted to do something interesting and different(than the church was used to). So I looked at a current design trend and adapted it to my needs. I think the overall effect is pretty cool.

This is a customized card we send on behalf of our clients. The name, address, and offer fields are auto populated from our database. Its a very interesting challenge making text that you cannot manually kern or adjust look good. This is a 4 up proof from our printer.

(names and voices have been changed to protect the innocent)

A client who uses a has a very nice modern facility needed a notification letter for his members. I thought a swiss grid approach would fit his needs nicely.

Another in my personal series showing off the fun of good chillout music.

I’ve been loving turntable.fm In particular I like hanging out in the ChilloutTent under the moniker Spikey. These are some posters I have put together for fun “promoting” the tent.