I’m trying to get the new revision illustrated and published this week, just in time for Christmas and Marital and Financial Crisis – which often go hand-in-hand.
This book could possibly save your marriage or save the world…
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Web Launch Party
Something I whipped up for a Web Launch Party at work. Think Wii Tennis, real ping pong, and lots of food during work hours – does it get any better?
Biggy left this link in a comment and I’ve watched it numerous times and laughed out loud!
http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/
Enjoy!
A recent email conversation between myself and a coworker regarding this graphic design. 
Eddo, Can we make the NEI on the logo a bit bigger so it’s the first thing your eyes are drawn to when you look at the page? My response…
“No”
And then a followup email that said…
About the “No”
Insert music here and turn back time.
Imagine ladies, getting ready for prom, trying 20 different hairstyles, trying on dress after dress after dress. Then, you finally find the right hairdresslipstick combination and you feel like a million bucks. Your date arrives with the corsage and just when he is about to slip it on your arm he says, “Do you think you could make your hair a little bigger?” It’s like you can feel the click, click, click of the Wheel of Fortune wheel landing on BANKRUPT. The entire audience sighs.
He didn’t take the time to tell you how great the outfit looked or realize that you spent HOURS if not days of your life working on your “look”, he just made a suggestion on how to improve it not even realizing that you had already tried it BIGGER and it looked hideous.
Each one of my designs that people see has normally gone through 20 iterations before a final is sent out. I’ve tried at least 20 different fonts, various sizes, colors, shapes, images and all of those items must flow together, look appealing, fit the SharePoint design and make everyone happy.
Sooo… I’ll put the soapbox away for now, just remember that when you ask me to change my design it’s like asking me to make my babies brown eyes blue and I happen to love them brown. You don’t mess with the babies… baby.
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Brush and Barrel
Okay, I finally got the site up and running, but I still have so much work to do. By looking at this simple design, you wouldn’t think that i spend around 20+ hours on it. I tried so many colors for the fonts and the stripes and finally settled on these and I’m quite happy with it.
www.brushandbarrel.com – the future of painting in the DFW area! haha.