I had a lot of meetings today …
… but the best conversation I heard was this: Boss: "Who's involved on the committee?" Answer: "Representatives from every department." Boss: "I'm wary of Noah's Ark style committees." Beat, as everyone thinks about it and laughs. Engineer at the table, quietly: "But Noah's Ark worked." Well played.
If we ever sell Mary Holste Design to Amazon.com, you can bet that this is how we’ll announce it.
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Making last minute touches on our logo concepts presentation!
We even have our presentation on foam core. I’d show you that, but then you’d see the top secret logo concepts we’re working on. 🙂
Site launch for First Lutheran Church on Wright Park! Feels good. But still have two more sites to launch by Christmas …
The church Mary and I got married in last December finally has a new site. We’ve been plugging away on the new First Lutheran site and I’m happy to have it live. It’s a clean, simple design with a focus on big pictures to show off the church and their ministry. (When we needed a shot for the wedding page, you can guess where we got one.) No time to celebrate, though! I’ve got a client presentation at 8:30 am tomorrow, followed by the City Club lunch tomorrow with Sal Mungia, President of the Washington State Bar Association. And by Wednesday of Read more…
Author! Author!
One of the more fun projects we’ve tackled recently was this book for a local psychologist, which she’s self-published. There’s nothing like watching an author receive that first copy of a book with their name on the byline. As a writer myself, I felt just as excited. This was one of most fun projects in awhile … (and, if you’ll allow me to say so, something that is pretty affordable too if you’re a budding author!)
Stockard Channing on Freelancing
A few years ago I watched Stockard Channing on Inside the Actors Studio. One of the students asked her at the end, “How do you evaluate whether you should take a part?” Her answer, and I’m paraphrasing from memory here because I can’t find it on the Tubes), was roughly this: There are three good reasons to take a part. Because you love the part. Because it will help your career. And the money. Look for two out of three. Of course, Channing was speaking about acting, but it’s a pretty good way to look at freelancing jobs too. Working Read more…
Launch Day for www.DebraAustinBooks.com! … featuring watercolor illustrations by Tacoma artist Chandler O’Leary.
Mary and I just launched a site for Debra Austin, an author whose first book will be published in the fall by Simon and Schuster. The book is set 500,000 years ago, with a tribe of homo erectus, our early ancestors. How best to make readers connect with its central character Snap, when she is so distant from us? Working with the author, we thought the best way to go was to illustrate the site with scenes from Snap's life, working to show her humanity. We looked around for a Tacoma artist who could help us with this, and decided Read more…
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