My good friend and Client, Kathryn Flynn has at last perfected the blend for the first in her line of Fertile Foods Teas, Moontime Tea. It is a fertility model based in the lunar cycle of the female (stay with me fella’s) that promotes…. fertility! We’ve been working on the tea project for almost a year now, (she did have a baby and all) so it is fabulous to see it come to fruition. I designed the label to be appealing to women, of course, the green signifying growth and life.

A fellow designer contract me to help out with some comps for a farm in Oregon. These are some of the cutting room floor takes on the icon – Images are hand drawn vectors in Illustrator created via me.

The concept is based on their name, which is reflective of their family and their dog.

This December has been the month of Logo design! I’ve been teaming up with Southern Oregon designer, Sabrah Maple to provide concepts for some Oregon agriculture and nature related clients. I’m also wrapping up some health care related logos in the next couple weeks. Here are a few of my favorites from the year from Fertile Foods Founder, Kathryn Flynn and Harry and David.

Oooh, she is sassy.

My most recent non-profit client, Hot Mama Coffee (http://www.hotmamacoffee.com) is a breast cancer awareness project that started with a calendar and now is also fundraising with coffee locally roasted in Medford, OR.

Entrepreneur Evan Archerd engineered this idea and luckily, my good friend and web-designer colleague Erin O’Kelley Muck of Ruby Slipper Designs (www.rubyslipper.com) brought me into this fabulously fun logo and calendar layout project. Below is a preview of the calendar and inside layout, which I designed. Photography is by Debra Thornton and daughter Sarah Petty retouched the photos and incorporated the backgrounds. The theme is diner at a famous art festival which must remain unnamed, but it is also HOT. The models are all local Southern Oregon baristas and the foods incorporate resemble a feminine body part. The glowing neon sign, “Breast Cancer” has two lights out so it shines “Beat Cancer.”

This year I had the pleasure to design the lables, hangtags and headercards for Harry and David’s Holiday line of core confections and many of the other holiday products.
Here is a sampling of some of the hangtags and labels I created for the style guide.

For the Pie Makers Collection, Coffee and Pie Filling were featured for this Thanksgiving. I created the labels for each of these products based on the seasons’ patterns.

On green glass, these sparkler labels were a clear, crisp refreshing snapshot of the delicious beverage inside.

The bulk of my work with Harry and David revolved around one of their most treasured and sought after product lines, Moose Munch.

From seasonal items to novelties and mainstays, I designed new patterns for the existing brand palette and logo illustration for the Ice Cream Shop Line and the Sports 6-pack.

above: logo created for Ice Cream Shop line, flavors included Root Beer Float and Neopolitan.

above: The Moose Munch lunch box I designed and prepared for manufacturing and print. Also I designed the color palette and headercards for the kids’ flavors.

above: Max the Moose got a sportsy makeover by me for the sports 6 pack. I added the sport accessories via illustration.

above: Your basic flavors in mini-candy confections: paper board tents and a belly band and tin.

Though I have recently been focusing more on logos and packaging (we draw to where the work is, right?) I have done my fair share of layout for brochures, sell sheets, instruction manuals, catalogs and the like in a variety of industries. Here is a sampling of some Arbonne sell sheets and catalog design and some medical advertising as well. A little old school direct mail is thrown in just to round out the collection as well.

Top three: Arbonne had three regional events a year as well as one large national event. As part of the art department, I worked on all the signage that covered several convention centers around the nation.

Bottom: Original Illustrations for an Elementary School Carnival – 40 different illustrations in this style.

above: Kids and teens hybrid vitamins boxes and packets

above: aromatherapy designs: clear labels on brown glass apothecary style jars and bottles with rubber debossed stoppers and eyedroppers

above: fyi – a teen natural skin care and cosmetic line