pro bono

Every other month, the committee that I chair in the women's organization at my church and I get to host a "Welcome Social", which gives new move-ins and more tenured members a chance to get to know each other better. These events give me a chance to get a little creative.

bar mitzvah'd

A fun part of my job is the little 'side' projects people ask me to do for them.

Here are a couple gift certificates the owner ['s EA] asked me to make for her son's 13th birthday tomorrow.

Customer Service "Quotables"

I came back from my honeymoon and found this on the wall of the kitchen at work ... I guess I missed a mini crisis initiated by one of the owner's concern that the company is not customer-service-centric enough.

I was asked to "charitify" them (apparently, that's what people in the office say when something needs some sprucing up).

Here is what they turned into...

We now have a set of ten "Customer Service Quotables" that will be framed and hung strategically around the office and possibly turned into mousepads and coffee mugs. Kind of fun!

business card wish

ad turned announcement card

with the new photos

new photography

I just hired Paul Bohman to take some photos of a few of our buildings and here's what came back...

not sure if this counts...

My creative time is currently being used up at work. Not that I mind getting paid for it, it's just not the genre of creativity I love the most.

This is an ad I recently created to announce a new partnership. The building is not the prettiest, but given that we had no time, and Tim took the photo with his Canon SLR while I was double parked in front of a construction site, I think it turned out just great.

Before the issue of the Washington Business Journal even arrived in our lobby, my phone was ringing off the hook from reps at other publications wanting to know why we aren't advertising with them. I guess the ad, at least partially, did what it was intended to do--to get our name out there.