August 22, 2011 – 8:04 pm
Recently I worked with a client who was looking to create a custom book-style wedding invitation, complete with fabric book tape and vintage styling. It was an exciting project (don’t worry!—pictures of the completed suite will be coming soon) but I had some nagging questions as I began to plan the execution of almost 400 [...]
Recently, I was at a baby shower for a friend of mine expecting her first little munchkin. As everyone was all “oooohs and aaaaahs” over the adorable blankets, burpees and bibs that were passed around, I was totally distracted by the artwork on the walls of the hostess’s home. It was a visual puzzle: I [...]
January 10, 2011 – 1:53 pm
Yesterday, we had the unique opportunity to participate in an impromptu {and let’s be honest, last-minute} wedding show with a couple of our fave Knoxville wedding peeps. We threw together a fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants shindig at the John Black Photography studio, opposite our end of The Daylight Building. Originally, Peggy of the delish and gorgeous Magpies Cakes [...]
December 23, 2010 – 5:30 pm
I love checking out all kinds of craftspeople, designers, bakers, furniture makers, artists… anyone who has an artist’s eye is worth checking out! This new feature, “Folks We Love” will focus on people doing neat things of all types. People will occasionally ask me where I got my “art gene” from. “Are either of your [...]
October 11, 2010 – 5:13 pm
Just a little while back, we had the opportunity to do a product photo shoot with our talented photographer-friend, Ashley Hoskins of Ashley Hoskins Photography. And to make it even more thrilling, we got to shoot at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens. If you’re a local and you’ve never been out to the Botanical Gardens, you [...]
December 3, 2009 – 9:10 am
When you find something good, don’t let it go! We’ve found something downright awesome in ASIDE PROJECT STUDIO and George Middlebrooks. My wife Sarah went through design school with George and they graduated together however many odd years ago. Sarah’s never had much love for web design… she’s a total print girl, so when it [...]