Queen of Seasons Series

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I also helped him come up with his name (a shortened/adjusted version of what he used already). For SEO, no one else has this name so he should do well.

This is NOT a font. I made this from scratch in Illustrator using basic rectangles.

Here is the branded set (the treatment varies):

Logo:

Facebook:

Website:

I used a theme for the website, but changed out the background. Quite frankly, I didn’t have the time to put something up from scratch (I can always do it later – yay for WordPress) and the domain was sitting collecting dust with outdated stuff. If you want me to build you a website and want to use a pre-made theme, I can edit the fonts, graphics, backgrounds, etc. for a lower cost than it would to do it from scratch.

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Bookstore Icons by April Sadowski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

I just got my copy of LogoLounge Volume 7 in the mail. It looks amazing! Order Made, the logo featured on page 174, 1C, was designed by myself for my client, Made 2 Order Software Corporation. I’m so proud to have it in this collection of logos, and even more ecstatic that it’s on the same spread as Chipotle.

These are available to purchase in 4.5″x3″ cards. Thanks to Storme Urban for giving me the idea. She asked if she had permission to faceplant into her desk one day and I gave her the slip to do so.

These were designed by Aibrean’s Studio and printed on Smooth Cover Stock, with the following verbiage included:

Permission Slip
This slip permits the bearer to do one of the following*:

• faceplant into a desk
• fall asleep at desk
• facepalm into…palm
• slap an idiot

* The permission-giver assumes no responsibility or liability to the injury or incapacitation of permission-bearer or others.

Authorized By
Date

Smaller quantities available upon request.

These will be professionally printed on-demand by a local Dayton, Ohio printer. Please allow a week for processing. You can also buy through Etsy.

You can’t get a Rolex of a logo for $50, or $100. I’m using a Rolex as an example because it’s made with care and quality and takes a while to make, and the price reflects that. So if you’re a designer and you work for a price that is low, the assumption is your product is cheaply made and won’t last and you didn’t take the time to research and craft an exceptional product. I’m not saying you have to charge $50,000 for a logo. Be aware of fair market standards. If you have no experience and need a starting point and thinking that doing low-budget work will help you get a foothold, the reality check is once you get there, that’s all you’ll get. Your word-of-mouth referral would be “hire this guy, he’s cheap”, so you’re never going to be able to raise your prices without losing that customer base, and if that’s all you are depending on, you’re going to get screwed.

The best thing you can do is work for a company. If you have no experience, plenty of places are open to hiring an intern.

As a client, you need to be aware of why you need good design.

Adam Swan had a very nice write-up on Forbes about the Era of Design, where he stated,

“What is certain is that the design bar has been raised and design-oriented businesses are winning.

Think how swiftly and strongly a design experience shapes our opinion of that brand, company or store, for good or bad. For instance, we know quickly when a website is bad. And we associate that feeling of frustration, or worse, disappointment with that brand.

Design-oriented organizations invest in thinking this stuff through. They put design at the heart of their company to guide innovation and to continually improve products, service and marketing. They recognize that a great design leads to differentiation, customer loyalty and higher profit.”

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Lady From Day

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/142489
http://www.amazon.com/Lady-Day-Tales-Orinda-ebook/dp/B006LMDQ48

Finding a cure for an ill princess is harder that it seems.

Traveling through the lands of Aelisonia, Lia and her band of adventurers hear a tale of an unusual illness that has caused the land of Feyris to go into famine and the disappearance of Queen Daylat.

On Lia’s journey to find the cure through the world of Orinda she runs into the hands of the vicious gorlags and the heart of the Prince of Feyris, Rowan. Will she be able to find the cure for the princess before all hope is lost?

Lunamae

Marriage between the clans can keep the peace for only so long.

In the world of Orinda there are countries surrounding a central land that is under small clan rule. Kyrie, a republican government to the north had been at war with one of these small clans when Chief Leofric of Frys was killed.

There was a song of a rhymester in Kyrie that spoke of a girl born on the fifth day of the fifth month under a full luna and under her rule, the lands of Orinda would be at peace and the clans within it would be united as one.

Lunamae was born on such a night to Chief Dame Angharad, wife of the late Leofric. It is through Lunamae that the clans decide to unify – if only she is married to a Kyrian, to further secure the bond. Angharad still holds hostilities even though the corrupted officials which caused the war had been thrown out into exile. Can Angharad get past the hate that has been haunting her since the death of her husband?

What could be a great tool is now a controversial mess, and one that I wouldn’t want to be zapped into.