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Making the Most of Featured Images

April 27, 2017 by Patricia

Featured images are a valuable feature of Wordpress sites.  They are your cover images, the ones that appear when you share posts on social media (mainly Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google); and the ones that show up on your blog page depending on your settings.  It's important that you know … [Read more...] about Making the Most of Featured Images

Filed Under: Tips & Tricks Tagged With: blogging, featured images, genesis framework, wordpress

Featured Project: Flaire Weddings

November 22, 2016 by Patricia

Cassie and Brooke, the power duo behind Flaire Weddings, were the sweetest clients one could ever hope for! They approached me to design their website and had me swooning at all their lovely brand images.  Their style is completely on point, and it shows! They made my job so easy because (and … [Read more...] about Featured Project: Flaire Weddings

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My Favourite Genesis Plugins

July 18, 2014 by Patricia

The Studiopress community is the most awesome community of developers and designers.  They have made Genesis the absolute best premium framework for Wordpress there is, not just because of the fantastic features, but also because it continues to evolve to make it better and easier to use.  (On a … [Read more...] about My Favourite Genesis Plugins

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The typefaces surfacing this week share a theme: n The typefaces surfacing this week share a theme: not serifs broadly, but a specific vintage register, letterforms with visible weight variation, a slightly worn edge, the sense that someone drew them by hand. 
The Ashcombe Hall has the gravity of a country house library, the kind of face you'd expect stamped in gold on a leather spine. Vintage Serenade moves looser, more lyrical, closer to something a calligrapher would have signed.
Design has swung this way before. When the Industrial Revolution made everything fast and identical, William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement answered with ornament, with craft, with the visible mark of the maker. The clean grid had its long turn at the wheel. This particular kind of type, textured, hand-cut, carrying a sense of history in the strokes, is having its own.
The antiques returning to people's living rooms and this type returning to branding are doing the same work. Both are reminding us a skilled hand was involved.
The Victorians read morning glory as fleeting love The Victorians read morning glory as fleeting love. I read it as a flower that simply knows when to leave the party.
#vintagetypeart #botanicaldesign #floraldesign
She used to sit across from people while they figu She used to sit across from people while they figured it out.
Now she's the one they came to hear.
That's what this moodboard is all about.
Another sneak peek. Monograms are my favorite thin Another sneak peek. Monograms are my favorite thing to design.
The best marketing strategy? Be really, really goo The best marketing strategy? Be really, really good at what you do. Everything else works better from there.
There's a lineage running through this one. Ever There's a lineage running through this one. 
Every object here survived because someone refused to rush the first pass. That's what craftsmanship actually is, a decision rather than a finish, made once, correctly, by someone with the patience to do it properly. Cornicing nobody hurried. A pattern made stitch by stitch. A tack room that assumes you already know what you're looking at.
The eighteenth century understood something we're still relearning: ornament is a form of discipline, not decoration for its own sake. That's the instinct behind this palette, this pairing, this whole quiet insistence on doing it right.
I am so excited to be working on this brand identity!
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