Run like a mutha…or a mutha’s brutha.

My sister and her mother friends decided to run the Napa Valley Ragnar relay a couple of weeks ago. They were short one runner on their team so my brother stepped up and joined the mothers as one of the mothers’ brothers. They wanted matchy-matchy shirts to all sport for the race so I put these together for them. They did really well and despite the torture they put their bodies through I think they’re glad they did it! I hear they ran through some really pretty scenery out on the coast.

 

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Who doesn’t remember this little jingle from yesteryear?

To whom it may concern,

Here’s another.

 

 

To your mother…

I can’t claim this as my idea, but rather my sister’s. She sent me an email the other day with a Word document attachment. She suggested making a t-shirt. I wish I had screen printing equipment! Instead, I did the next best thing…a poster.

 

 

 

Daily Doodle

I’ve tried many times and have had a hard time keeping an actual sketchbook. I do much better with loose sheets of paper, partly because I can’t stand  not drawing on a flat surface. The binding makes it awkward as well as my hand partially hanging off of the edge of hundreds of sheets of stacked paper. I wish I enjoyed it more, because I love having/seeing a bound collection of misc. drawings all contained within a nice little sketchbook. But try as I might I always end up drawing on single sheets of paper, usually just 8.5″ x 11″ and always in landscape orientation. So what I’ve ended up with is a ton of loose sheets of paper that I plan on somehow binding at some point in time. Maybe I’ll start making ‘yearbooks’ of drawings…that would be nice. This page is the result of a recent day’s doodles. This was done on normal bond paper with a red Pilot G2.

The Ampersand

The overlooked, and unfortunately under appreciated ampersand is probably the most unique character in the written English language. I find it fascinating especially when you see various typefaces interpretation of it.

Choose a color

These gentle monsters are available in a vast assortment of color choices. Pick your favorite!

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Thanks to Abduzeedo for the inspiration.

Fly with Vi

It has been quite eventful the past few weeks for our friend and neighbor, Vi Rindels. She is an amazing 84 year old woman who, not only makes some of the best pies around, but also has led a life of love, sacrifice, care and service to all those who have been lucky enough to know her. She was diagnosed with Lymphoma about 7 months ago and was given 3-6 months. So she has taken those final few months to complete all of her ‘projects’ so that she would be ready to go back ‘home’. Since November she’s made over 300 pies and distributed them to friends, family and neighbors as a token of love. Our family has been lucky enough to be on the receiving end of many of those pies since she moved onto our street. Before she started to get sick, she was 83 going on 30, enjoying life, always on the go and ready to help where needed. Since then, my wife Brittany and Vi’s next door neighbor, Adrien have taken her meals, helped out with quilts and made sure she had everything she needed. Vi says that she’s just about finished all her ‘projects’ and is almost ready to go…except there was one more. Another neighbor of ours, Noelle Pikus-Pace who just returned from competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in Women’s Skeleton, paid Vi a visit one Sunday afternoon. As they were chatting, Noelle asked Vi if she had accomplished everything she wanted to in her life. ‘No’, she said. The thing she always wanted to do was go skydiving! Noelle and her husband Janson started scheming on how they could make that happen. With a few phone calls and Brittany and Adrien alongside her, they found themselves in Ogden, UT suiting up preparing to jump out of a moving airplane at 13,000 ft above the beautiful Utah landscape. The local news was there to document it along with lots of friends and family to witness the event. Brittany and Adrien LOVED it and so did Vi! She says she wasn’t even scared.

Since then, Vi has appeared on the Today Show and Good Morning America as an inspiration to many people.

Keep in mind that the decision to go skiydiving and actually doing it was all within about a days time. Brittany asked if I would design a shirt that she, Adrien and Vi could wear while they jumped. So with the little time we had after work that day, we put together this shirt. She was excited and grateful. It would be nice if there were more ‘Vi’s’ on earth!

And this is just more exploration with the graphic…

Logos and logos and logos

You see I’ve done a lot of logos and I mean a lot of logos throughout the majority of last year. They have come from all walks of life and types of businesses. I wanted to display some, not all of them. Enjoy!