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Current projects: Another oilwell logo
Today I’ve been working on an oilwell logo. The theme assigned to the field was astronomy, so the well project was given the nickname of a star found in one of the constellations in the northern sky. My visual inspiration … Continue reading
Texas wildflower sightings
Wild about Texas Wildflowers is a small website devoted to Texas wildflowers. The site contains a photo-illustrated identification guide page usefully organized by color and a Q-and-A page, where readers send in their photos of unusual blossoms they have spotted … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Life, Writing about Art and Design
Tagged botany, graphic design, web design
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Credit where it’s due! A photo-crediting flow chart
Design*Sponge just published a flow chart of the how’s, why’s and when’s of using and crediting others’ images on your own blog. The flow chart was written and designed by Pia Jane Bijkerk, Erin Loechner and Yvette van Boven. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Posted in The Business of Art, Writing about Art and Design
Tagged business of art, graphic design, web design
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Current project completed: Holy Cross oilwell logo
Here is the accepted logo for the third oilwell in the series. The Holy Cross neighborhood is named for the Holy Cross private boys’ school which had stood on that site for over a century before the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. … Continue reading
Current projects: Last of the oilwell logos. For a while.
Just finished sending off roughs on the final oilwell logo in this current series. The theme for this oilfield is historic neighborhoods of New Orleans. So I used ironwork and wooden gingerbread on the iconic building of this particular neighborhood … Continue reading