Regular client Blue Diamond Industries contracted yesIsaid to create an installation of six panels explaining and illustrating the company’s core values. Multiple sets would be printed and installed at their offices and manufacturing facilities across the US.
Goethe-Institut recently hired me to create an illustration for the 2022 International German Olympics (IDO), a scholastic competition and cultural exchange for students studying German. My task: create an isometric design that depicts familiar landmarks in Chicago and Hamburg, Germany.
Havrilla Designs recently commissioned me to create a logo and window graphics for Be The Color, an immersive art exhibition at his storefront floral studio in Chicago. In this post, I discuss the process of creating the identity and designing the signage for the event.
Faced with the onset of COVID-19, longtime client and award-winning floral designer Adam Havrilla AIFD PFCI ICPF of Artistic Blooms had to do some emergency adaptation of his business model to face our new uncertain future. He came to me to help him create a logo, website, and business card for his new venture, Havrilla Designs.
Recently, Goethe-Institut Chicago tapped me to design a brochure for a large performance festival going on in various locations around Chicago called Between Gestures.
One of my favorite projects in junior high art class was drawing in two-point perspective, and I’ve often thought about revisiting perspective drawing techniques as an adult. These fantasies were reignited recently when I decided to convert my photo of a utility building to abstract geometric artwork.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the riots at Stonewall, Goethe-Instituts around the world are mounting an exhibit called ‘Queer as German Folk,’ described as “50 Years of Transatlantic Rainbow Friendship.” For a local component in Chicago’s iteration, I was charged with designing a large print map that displays the information compiled in a Google Map by two interns at the Goethe-Institut, Mason Culkin and Liliana Macias.
Late last year, Chuck Weikel and Larry Barr reached out to yesIsaid about creating a logo and a website for their new financial advisory Middle Branch Partners. They were colleagues at another firm, and were on the brink of branching out on their own in early 2019. Here’s what happened.
That's all she wrote, folks.
That's all she wrote, folks.