Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Party Invitation Poster



A very important aspect to being a designer is really being able represent your client. If you can get to their essence and show it graphically you have succeeded. Such was this invitation. The client was vivacious and filled with moxy. Her plan was to have an Italian menu served at her party so I ran with it. Each guest received the poster folded up in a cellophane envelope (compostable!) and as the unfolding of the poster took place, the loud, bright typography created excitement for the evening to come. You could almost hear the host's raucous laugh.

And now for something completely different...

Well this one is from another lifetime ago, long before I became a designer. I came across my name in the book Molecular Genetic Approaches in Conservation. At the end of the book the authors thanked me, as well as other scientific research assistants, for the data we accumulated for the Caribbean Conservation Corporation in Tortuguero, Costa Rica.  What an amazing job that was. We walked five or so miles a night along the beaches in four hour shifts. We tagged the huge green sea turtles as they lay their hundred or so eggs in a nest they dug. The beach was covered in glowing bioluminescence and the warm air was filled with the sweet smell of night-blooming orchids. It was magic.