Anchorage disc golf aficionados Peder Reiland, Chad Saetre, and Zach Voris started the Spring Classic Disc Golf Tournament in 2005. I've had the privilege of...
Projects
Innovative Funding
Development of a logo design and website for Innovative Funding incorporated bold colors and subtle nods to business charts and graphs. About Innovative Funding: Be Brave: Take the Next Step...
Hill Valley Dairy
A comprehensive logo design package with The Scribe Away for this small business included: Logo and branding Typography and graphic identity Art direction for product photography Packaging design E-commerce site with custom shipping and fulfillment development...
Mesa Early Learning Network Logo
Mesa’s Early Learning Network is a team of service agencies who can serve families and help them connect to other services and programs available in Mesa. Their message is to help families thrive and to ensure all of Mesa’s children achieve strong starts in...
Source Alchemy Logo Design
This logo design for a startup incorporated symbolism from alchemy with contemporary sans serif typography and a harmonious balanced lockup in a cool, refreshing palette.
Believe Counseling Services
Tessa DeArmond of Believe Counseling Services commissioned this logo for her private therapy practice. Her motto, "Believe in Your Truth," guides her work.
Team Up to Clean Up: City of Mesa
The City of Mesa commissioned this logo for their Team Up to Clean Up initiative, part of their Proactive Code Compliance Division. From landscaping maintenance to building repairs and trash removal, the program seeks to make the city a safer and more pleasant place....
Interior Alaska Land Trust
The wonderful team at the Fairbanks based Interior Alaska Land Trust commissioned this logo, website and brand redesign to better represent the organization locally, statewide and nationally. Project deliverables: Completely...
Museums Alaska
A complete brand overhaul, Museums Alaska needed a new look and a functional site to guide their members to important resources and visually...
Mat-Su Visitor Foundation
As a part of the Scribe Away web and content design team, I was fortunate to work on a new graphic identity and website for the Mat-Su Visitor Foundation with Margaret Adsit and Bonnie Quill. ...
Copper Octopus Plumbing
After some serious plumbing and HVAC assistance from Bill Longbrake at Country Garden Farms this weekend, I made this little logo for us and hope to get it embroidered on some shirts before our next DIY adventure in MAPP gas, Shark Bite fittings and PEX. Amateur...
Storybook Handmade
Jennifer Urena at Storybook Handmade commissioned this logo to update her brand with a professional vector design that retains the spontaneity and friendliness of her handmade macrame plant holders and other handcrafted items. Check out upcoming workshops on her...
Curator Engine
Illustrations commissioned by Curator Engine include murals created from pen and ink drawings and digitized for large format printing as well as mixed-media sewn panels. [gallery...
North Country Adventuring
Jay D. Ranson commissioned this logo design for his project North Country Adventuring: see his latest adventures here. Specially designed to accommodate deuteranopia-type colorblindness, the logo includes bold,...
For Startups Only
For Startups Only offers simple and amazingly fast services for startups to create their own swag in minutes. This logo and business card design feature a bright, urgent, eye-catching red and industrial-inspired...
BTI Bankruptcy Trading & Investments
BTI (Bankruptcy Trading & Investments) commissioned this logo with the goal of a professional visual identity for their financial services company. I chose a neutral blue and silver color theme...
ARRC: Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation
ARRC, the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, has been supporting agriculture in Alaska since 1935 with farm loans and more. This update to the ARRC logo includes a classic red colony barn, tractor and silo...
OnTrack Bookkeeping & Administrative Services
OnTrack, a bookkeeping and administrative service based in Alaska and Hawaii, offers life simplifying tools for businesses. This design, created in partnership with Scribe Away, includes a rooster as both symbol of honesty, fortitude, and timeliness (he's always up on...
Bushes Bunches Produce Stand
The fantastic farmers at Bushes Bunches Produce Stand commissioned this logo through Margaret Adsit at Scribe Away. Logo features include: A simplified vector illustration of the original farm...
The Scribe Away
The Scribe Away, a content marketing strategy consultancy, requested these spot illustrations to highlight specific services and concepts, including defining your identity, building your story, mastering your findability and more. [gallery...
Alaska Microgreens
Alaska Microgreens, a small and growing business in Bird Creek, Alaska, produces highly nutritious microgreens available from select local grocers. The greens are packaged in clear compostable plastic bowls and needed a...
NonEssentials
The website for NonEssentials, Alaska employed the versatile Divi theme and carefully crafted copy written by Margaret Adsit at The Scribe Away. Highlighting the diversity of delicious food, drinks, catering, and home...
Alaska Farm Tours
Margaret Adsit at Alaska Farm Tours commissioned these illustrations with the goal of bridging high-quality photography and the nostalgic feel of vintage travel posters like those created by the WPA in the...
Alaska Fitness Equipment
Alaska Fitness Equipment commissioned this e-commerce site with the goal of creating a lightweight, easy-to-manage online shop for their fitness products while streamlining user experience for both...
Alaska Sewlutions
Alaska Sewlutions, the 49th state's official chapter of the American Sewing Guild, needed a simple website with information for prospective members and details for current members about upcoming...
Alaska Blooms Peony Farm
Alaska Blooms, a peony farm in southcentral Alaska, commissioned this redesign and expansion of their website by The Scribe Away to include beautiful professional images,...
Nationwide Dental Refining Club
This branding and web design project included the creation of a logo family and site for the new Nationwide Dental Refining Club, an organization of dentists collaborating to refine...
Eric Griffin x Black Diamond
These designs were digitized from original drawings by Eric Griffin in preparation for Black Diamond. Creating a detailed vector version of the astronaut/skier and an Adobe Illustrator pattern brush was easy with...
Alaska Food & Wellness
This logo was designed for business owner Nicholas Klco, who believes in the power of food, yoga, and complementary/alternative medicine to improve health and wellness at low cost. To tie into Alaska Microgreens, the yogi in this logo features a bowl of microgreens...
Hugh McPeck Art
Ann McPeck Gabler commissioned a site to support the sale of her late husband and sculptor Hugh McPeck's work, to benefit the University of Alaska Anchorage Hugh McPeck Gallery Art Student Scholarship. This...
My AZ Museum Journey
My AZ Museum Journey will be a web site inviting participation from educators at all AZ Museums and the public. Small displays at participating museums will include information about places/artifacts to explore and some...
Museum of the Urban Desert
The logo design for Museum of the Urban Desert was created for a program in development by a graduate museum studies student at ASU. The project includes the creation of a mapping website that will ask the public to map...
Logo Design Portfolio
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Mesa Hispanic Network
This logo design was developed for the Mesa Hispanic Network, a program of the City of Mesa, Arizona. Project objectives were to create a visually vibrant, richly colored identity with nods to geometric tile patterns and iconic mesa tabletop mountains, with formats...
Country Garden Farms
Since 2005, design work for my dad's turfgrass sod and hay farm Country Garden Farms has included: Logo design and branding Rack cards, brochures, spec sheets, product labeling, and booth design...
Ancient Wisdom Mystics
Logo and identity design for Ancient Wisdom Mystics (AWM) inspired by proprietor Janice Pendleton's ayurvedic medicine practice on Kauai, Hawaii. Sanskrit typography is combined with rich island colors and Janice's...
The Cultured Cheese
Logo design for the Cultured Cheese, a cultured food truck project. Typography: Oil Can by Lost Type.
Studio at The Alaska Club
Design work for Studio at The Alaska Club, Anchorage's newest hot yoga and fitness studio: brand development and strategic planning to encompass new facilities, print publications, ongoing email marketing, and print, online and TV advertising; website design...
Black Bear Studio Systems
Challenged with the creation of a mascot, these bears combine the technical aspects of Black Bear Studio Systems with their ferocious dedication to their craft.
Mesa K-Ready
Thanks to the great folks at the City of Mesa, Mesa Arts Center and Mesa School District for commissioning this fun logo for their new kindergarten readiness initiative.
Alaska’s Apothecary
Southwest Maker Fest
2020 is my fifth year as a designer/illustrator for Southwest Maker Fest in Downtown Mesa, AZ. Southwest Maker Fest is a collaborative one-day festival and community of makers seeking to achieve the vision of a connected community, empowered by creativity. The...
Sunderland Ranch identity design
The hardworking folks over at Sunderland Ranch commissioned a logo that could stand up their brand of "Rustic & Relaxing: Your Mountain Getaway…Get Out and Ride." RS is the ranch's actual cattle brand, and the typefaces chosen (Stymie family) include sturdy slab...
Brandi Lee Cooper Ceramics
Friend, ceramic artist and biologist Brandi Lee Cooper let me lend a hand with her website update, screenshots shown below. Thanks to her beautiful images and clear vision of how her site needed to come together, the project included a quick upgrade from Weebly...
typography studies
Ongoing typographic and handwriting studies:
Captions Unlimited
As a part of the team at Techsavvy Solutions group (visit them here), I worked with the professional captioners of Captions Unlimited to update their logo and build a responsive website for their company and clients. Check it out at captionsunlimited.com! View...
The Alaska Club Team Training
The Alaska Club Team Training is an intensive, coached group fitness program coming soon to TAC's network of fitness facilities. I designed materials for this new program including: Logo and (sub)brand...
Big Boss Gaming
Big Boss Gaming is a community of expert players who compete and produce diverse web content for games like Battlefield for Microsoft XBOX and other platforms. Cofounder Peyton Warner kindly contracted me to create a logo that captures the essence of Big Boss...
The Beauty Room
The multitalented Debbie Cedeno has graciously allowed me to design print and web materials for her salon, The Beauty Room, in Anchorage, Alaska. Design components have included: Business cards...
Active Solutions
Active Solutions, an up-and-coming thermal control technology company in Chandler, Arizona kindly allowed me to design their identity materials. Incorporated in the AS logomark are colors derived from thermal gradient simulations created by engineer...
Dorothy G. Page Museum, Wasilla, Alaska
These logo designs were commissioned as part of a future rebrand of the Dorothy G. Page Museum in Wasilla, Alaska. Located in the original Wasilla townsite in a log cabin, the museum houses a variety of artifacts from this colorful town. Eggplant, purple and green,...
Tikanni Pet Partners Program
The Pet Partners program from Heyoka Kennels at the Dorothy Page Museum in Wasilla, Alaska brings sled dogs like Tikanni and visitors together for furry fun. These logo designs feature Tikanni's classic Husky ruff, goofy eyebrow spots, and bright blue...
Dry Heat Designs
Dry Heat Designs, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based consumer product design firm, was a case study for my logo and identity design class at TechShop Chandler and turned into a favorite identity project. A focus on crisp blues, sere desert tans and silvers brings a...
R. Jill Maxwell, Author
R. Jill Maxwell's author site redesign included a brand new Wordpress-based website to create a cohesive web presence that matches her newest book. Web content included her book description, teaser, and excerpt, author...
Demmo Design + Fabrication
Demmo, started by Jared Thorn, provides democratized industrial design and fabrication services. From the Greek 'demo' meaning people, Demmo serves clients of all sizes and experience levels with industrial-strength design, prototyping, fabrication and...
Village Herbals
Branding and design work for Village Herbals, owned and operated by the incomparable Stella Lyn. Visit villageherbalsalaska.com to see her shop. Design work included: Logo development and deployment across print and web Business cards Letterhead and custom forms...
Palmer Garden and Art Faire
2021 will be my seventh year as volunteer designer for the Palmer Museum Garden and Art Faire. Visit the website I designed for them here. 2021 Concept: Scandinavian-inspired radial illustration featuring the many elements of the festival: art, gardening, food,...
365 days of patterns
In preparation for NCECA 2016, I printed over 300 unique stickers 2x2" and 3x3" stickers on outdoor matte vinyl from my 365 days of design project. Find all the designs, free to download, over at my blog or on Pinterest. [gallery columns="4"...
Alaska Farmland Trust
The Alaska Farmland Trust preserves farmland for future generations, and I've had the privilege of working with their staff and members on a number of projects, including a logo refresh, additional branded logos for their Ag Matters radio show and FarmLink farm...
Girdwood Brewing Company Logos
Logo designs for Girdwood Brewing Company, a craft brewery-to-come in beautiful Girdwood, Alaska. Requested logo features were snowy hops flowers, mountains, and glaciers, since the brewery will be located at the base of Mt. Alyeska near Alyeska Ski Resort....
North Star Candles
I created a logo, brand identity and website for North Star Candles, a new company run by a small group of entrepreneurial teen girls who make handmade beeswax candles in Anchorage, Alaska. Shop their selection of beautiful candles at nstarcandles.com. [gallery...
Art Walk Palmer
I designed the Palmer Museum of History and Art's Second Saturday Art Walk branding, including logo, monthly posters, Art Walk Passports, and print collateral.
Holy Archangel Liturgical Supply
Graphic design for my friend and patron Alex Miller, owner of Alaska Liturgical Supply and Holy Archangel Candle Company, has included: Logo and graphic brand identity Product photography Product catalog in print and on the web Product labels for coffee,...
moonstone farm
Identity and branding for Moonstone Farm, including outdoor-use vinyl stickers for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) boxes. "Moonstone Farm grows healthy food on their historic farm in Palmer, Alaska. Our...
Pantaloon Children’s Clothing
Logo design for children's clothing by the Adsits featuring a loon with pants.