Category: process

8-Bit Gnomes

Posted by melissa – 04/03/2013

From the archives. Rough comps from an internal sales game for the brokers of a medical supplies company.

Its purpose? To test just how well their team knows about the company’s products. Every year a different theme, this particular year being gnomes.

I just gnome you’re going to love these. (Sorry, had to.)

 

Process
Inspired by the popular sub-culture of gnome cross-stitching (who knew?).

Created at a small scale (pixel-by-pixel) in Illustrator, then rasterized and brought into Photoshop to be paired with a digital font and sized appropriately.

 

 

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Process: The Kitchen & The Garden Patch

Posted by melissa – 09/06/2012

Now this is a little old, but I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the process and method behind The Kitchen & The Garden Patch. (For those who don’t know, this is the cookbook I wrote and designed as part of a personal project back in 2010.) You can see the final designs here.

Here are some of the original scanned drawings that were used as part of the artwork on the final design:

 

 

Cover after being composited. Before & After cleanup:

Here is some of the inspiration for the colors and design of TK&TGP:

 

 

A couple of early comps:

And the final design (see more here):

 

50 States Album

Posted by melissa – 08/20/2012

my husband had the wonderful idea that we should create a photo album with a picture for every state we have been in together.

so i found this cute album a the thrift store

created a color-coded labeling system by time zone

and put a color-coded sticker label on each photo slot (one per state)

the pages are double sided too, so it opens up into a nice spread

and room for some countries too (see: St. Maarten and Victoria, B.C.)

we have many more states to visit
but we decided to take our time
maybe this will be completed when we’re old & gray