4wdesign's latest & what inspires me

new winter yoga schedule

4wdesign4u — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:11:35 +0000

I love the isometric softproofs I get from psprint.com when I submit art… in this case for the new schedule for Turtle Island Yoga in San Anselmo.

PSPrint does a great job printing, and they have super-reasonable prices.

Filed under: 2. BRANDING & MARKETING MATERIAL – includes ads, brochures, business cards and stationery, logos, postcards, packaging, newsletters & publications, signage...

imagine – more ruach!

4wdesign4u — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:49:51 +0000

These images are from the card I recently designed for the Ruach Ha’Aretz family of retreats. I can easily get in sync with the theme behind this summer’s upcoming Ruach Ha’Aretz signature summer retreat…. imagining visions of peace, especially with the prospects of all these wonderful teachers!

Filed under: 2. BRANDING & MARKETING MATERIAL – includes ads, brochures, business cards and stationery, logos, postcards, packaging, newsletters & publications, signage..., Jewish & Judaica

new site’s up!

4wdesign4u — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:41:45 +0000

This is exciting! I’ve designed, developed and implemented this brand new customized wordpress site – and we’ve just gone live! woo hoo! It’s a full-on website, plus a blog, plus a micro-blog, plus all kinds of snazzy follow-me-here, follow-me-there, push to twitter widgets, etc, etc, it practically makes espresso too! Check it out! eaconsult.com.

Filed under: 1. WEB DESIGN & WORDPRESS, 2. BRANDING & MARKETING MATERIAL – includes ads, brochures, business cards and stationery, logos, postcards, packaging, newsletters & publications, signage..., blog banners + wordpress customizations

snippet from kol shofar’s website

4wdesign4u — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:35:04 +0000

A snippet from Kol Shofar‘s website last week, as we were winding up the high holiday season with Sukkot and Simchat Torah. With the goal on this home page snippet to convey the joy of the season, showing a sukkah (thanks Schiffs!), band photo for the Red Hot Chachkas – a great local klezmer band – and my apples and honey illustration from one of my Rosh Hashanah greeting cards. And below that, the new synagogue program guide, uploaded onto Bluetoad – this is a great service, easy to work with, which takes multi-page PDF’s and allows easy access to these documents.

CHEP iPhone/iPad app!

4wdesign4u — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:01:00 +0000

New iPhone/iPad app!

I created these graphics and more for this medical app for CHEP – Canadian Hypertension Education Program. These are guidelines to help primary care providers as well as people with hypertension. And of course there’s preventative information as well.

While arguably not the most scintillating app out there, according to at least one doctor I spoke with, these guidelines save lives. It doesn’t really get any more fulfilling than that.

For more info, see the Canadian Hypertension website, and www.hypertension.ca/chep-recommendations for the guidelines, or even better, download the CHEP app on your iphone or ipad!

Filed under: 2. BRANDING & MARKETING MATERIAL – includes ads, brochures, business cards and stationery, logos, postcards, packaging, newsletters & publications, signage..., illustration, doodles & drawings

branding campaign for south peninsula hebrew day school

4wdesign4u — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:20:50 +0000

Lots of pieces to this particular campaign — I was given the task of creating a new look for this organization, using their logo and a few photos. Starting with a full page calendar ad, this campaign expanded to to posters and flyers, and ads of all sizes for a wide variety of publications. Shown is a sample ad from the many pieces for the South Peninsula Hebrew Day School.

Filed under: 2. BRANDING & MARKETING MATERIAL – includes ads, brochures, business cards and stationery, logos, postcards, packaging, newsletters & publications, signage..., Jewish & Judaica

email announcement for bhakti nova

4wdesign4u — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:16:08 +0000

Just designed this email newsletter for bhaktinova.com for some of their upcoming retreats… the Harvest Yoga Festival and Benefit in Point Reyes, and their New Year’s Retreat in Brazil, Bhakti Bliss Advenutures.

I created this template for this and future newsletters – so many choices with HTML email – but we’re diving in with Vertical Response and so far, so good.

wordpress for warblerwatch

4wdesign4u — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:54:56 +0000

I’ve been building this website, inspired by the recent WordPress WordCamp, with the goal of providing Warbler Watch with the ability to edit their own content.

Just checked in a few weeks later, and lo and behold, they’ve been making changes to the original design! That’s the idea behind using WordPress as the somewhat-easy-to-use CMS, tho’ we designers often like to control our designs more…. ahhhhh, the pros and cons of CMS and letting go of control.

Filed under: 1. WEB DESIGN & WORDPRESS, blog banners + wordpress customizations

wordcamp reboot!

4wdesign4u — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:08:33 +0000

WordCamp was fabulous! Met great people, learned lots, made good connections – folks who seem as happy to connect with a graphic designer as I am to meet codie-types. Looking forward to developing lots more WordPress sites! Ready to turn the ‘page’ to more exciting functionality, and broader theme-adaptation and development. Great to be able to officially put on that UI cap once again.

So many highlights from WordCamp… For example, learning that Carlton University uses WordPress, now that’s big! And hearing about the trials and tribulations involved with getting it to happen is encouraging…. it ain’t always easy to convince folks to make these changes! Hearing about that process of development is useful. Frankie Gershwin singing her great-uncle’s Summertime – that was amazing! Watching the bubbly, charming, and super-impressive Matt Mullenweg speak about where WordPress has been and where it’s going, with those very groovy slides; that was awesome! Speaking of awesome slide presentations, Zach Berke’s presentation was totally inspiring, and quite cool – he used Prezi…. must check it out! A great alternative to PowerPoint. Will add more highlights as I go through my notes! So much inspiration! So much enthusiasm! The WordPress community is the best!

Filed under: inspiration, out & about

naga yoga with tony briggs

4wdesign4u — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:35:36 +0000

This newly-minted package for yoga aficionados comprises a logo, a website, as well as printed marketing material.

The design goals were for an inviting look with a clean and simple layout, starting with this unusual knotted snake graphic.

See naga69yoga.com to learn more about Naga Yoga, and to check out the schedule. Classes are in Berkeley and San Anselmo, at Turtle Island Yoga.