A wine bar cafe offers a distinct and contrasting experience when compared to a restaurant bar. The wine bar is an extension of our living room, offering the comforts of home away from home. The bartender and wait staff are our hosts, always happy to see us and eager to […] Read more »
An Artist When No One is Looking
“The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.” Steven Pressfield “the War of Art” My father was an artist, though I never recall hearing him confess to it. I struggle with the phrase as well. When meeting someone and asked “What do you do,” I […] Read more »
Quality Design Takes Time
It took Michelangelo 4 years to paint the ceiling and 6 years to paint the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. It took 14 years to sculpt Mount Rushmore. Gaudí’s cathedral remains unfinished after 130 years of construction. By contemporary standards, patience has become a rare virtue. Technology, with all […] Read more »
Creative Project: Custom Financial Advisor Website Design with Blog
This client wanted to pull her site out from under the control of a financial industry site provider. The goal was to create a site that is cleaner, streamlined, visually compelling and personalized. The visual theme of ocean waves serves as metaphor for the dynamics of both life and the […] Read more »
Creative Project – Wealth Management Brochure Design
A brochure design for another financial advisor who focus on wealth management. This is one element of an entire marketing package including a new custom web site and additional marketing materials. The visual theme of ocean waves serves as metaphor for the dynamics of both life and the financial industry. […] Read more »
Sparking Creativity
Creativity can at times flow effortlessly, and alternately seem impossible to extract, even in the smallest measure. In the case of the latter, it may become necessary to provide a spark. This spark can take infinite forms, some benign, some radical. Following is a short list of methods to spark […] Read more »
Creative Presentation – Conceptual Versus Visceral
The creative presentation of information can range on a scale from highly conceptual, with minimal visual support, to predominately visceral imagery targeting the intuitive. This is a left-brain right-brain correlation. A given project will establish its place on this scale based on various factors: audience; client-provided parameters; and aesthetic interpretation […] Read more »
Financial Advisor Infographic – Presenting Information Visually
We all assimilate information in different ways and to varying degrees of success. Some learn best through reading, some by listening, but all of us tend to absorb information better – especially complex ideas such as financial planning or wealth management process – when the information is presented visually using […] Read more »
Peace
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” Jimi Hendrix “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Mahatma […] Read more »
Wabi Sabi, The Japanese Aesthetic of Beauty
Wabi Sabi is the Japanese aesthetic which describes beauty as imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. There is little character in perfection. Nature seems to abhor perfection and chooses instead to flit around its edges embracing asymmetry, inconsistency, non-conformity and decay. In the continuum of time, we are only here for a […] Read more »