The client had started a YouTube channel featuring short videos that moms could squeeze into their day (while prepping for their kids, with their kids, of even using their kids as weights.)
Read MoreManhattan Beach Towers Mural
This was my first mural design! VIVACHE Designs completed several murals for the Manhattan Beach Towers group, but contracted me for one of the murals.
Read MoreMartin Luther King, Jr. Tributes
The way this Starbucks tribute ad for Martin Luther King, Jr. reversed the alphabet is simple and clever; and the “Again” succinctly references a turbulent year in U.S. race relations.
Read MoreA Selfie of Dorian Gray
A Selfie of Dorian Gray is one of my favorite Stale Cake comics – probably because there is no text, so we didn’t overwrite the joke. Anyway, we liked the idea of Dorian Gray adapting to our selfie-obsessed culture and looking even worse with each douche-y shot of himself.
Read MoreThe Hamburger Helper Icon
Hamburger menus are popular and easy, but are they any good? If you have a smart phone, then you are probably familiar with the hamburger icon hanging out in one of the corners on your screen. Even if you don’t have a smart phone, or tablet, you may see them on full screen websites. Still…
Read More2014 World Cup – Celebrating Brazil
Weather icon: Are we expecting triangles tonight?
Back then, TV presenters slid magnetic symbols around a metal map: dots for rain, asterisks for snow, lines to mark off areas of equal pressure. “They were just hieroglyphics as far as everybody was concerned,” Allen says. “Why was a triangle a rain shower?”
Read MoreCocky Coders
As a woman who learned HTML, CSS, and programming without virtual strippers, I am clearly not in the target audience group for CodeBabes.com – a coding tutorial site for “HTML Virgins” that rewards users with stripping models.
Read MoreBlood Moon
Visual Confections
Patatap – You have to try it!
Create visual music with your keyboard
Read MoreTV Trope: Photoshop magic
Macbeth – St. Mary’s Menston
UI Icons – Friendly vs. Powerful
It was explained to me that the Mac’s intended audience was non-technical…I interpreted “personal” and non-technical to mean that it would be good if symbols were based on everyday objects…My favorite icon is the smiling Mac; it was designed to give a friendly first onscreen image. I also like the bomb, which is irreverent because…
Read MoreStale Cake Comics
This was my first mural design! VIVACHE Designs completed several murals for the Manhattan Beach Towers group, but contracted me for one of the murals.
Read MoreBusy Business Cards
You don’t have a clue
Dugalicious
Lady Charlotte Magazine
Feeling Stuffed on Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I actually love cooking for my friends and family – though I rarely have to cook more than a couple dishes. In this comic, I liked the idea of cutting out the middleman.
Read MoreSeeing Red – the Problem with Period ads
Walking in Los Angeles – it actually happens!
This feels like a subversive statement
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