Last week I had the opportunity to hang with Rocky and Courntney Shanower, Owners of Park Street Pizza in Sugarcreek, Ohio, as we spent the day visiting local farmers and producers to shoot pictures for their upcoming website and branding (can't show you that yet but it's really exciting). It's no surprise we had a great time. Thanks to the crew at Park Street for allowing me to be in their way all day as I documented their work.
Speaking at SAA
I'm excited to be speaking to the students at the School of Advertising Arts next Wednesday. I visited there nearly 20 years ago while applying to schools and they were my top pick. I have a feeling a lot has changed since then. Can't wait to check it out and hang with the students for the afternoon.
Brezel at the North Market
This spring, I had the pleasure of working with Brittany Baum, owner of Brezel, to rebrand her amazing Bavarian pretzel bakery. It's been really fun to see her grow into a larger space at the North Market and take the time to work with me on a redesign of her shop. It turned out great! In order to keep the cost down, she did much of the prep work herself, painting the various surfaces, and helping me apply the vinyl to the counters, and signage. Her shop certainly stands out now and she gets loads of compliments from North Market customers and other vendors as well.
Cambodia trip video
As many of you know, we just returned from a three week, life-changing trip to visit our friends at an orphan home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Here's a short video of our time spent with the kids at Asia's Hope Prek Eng 2 children's home.
Click here for more information about Asia's Hope.
New project: Luna Burger
Look for the new Luna Burger identity and packaging in your local freezer section this summer! Barbie and Megan have been great to work with. Marketing and creative writing by Christine Myers of Verb Garden.
Pinchflat 3 this Saturday!
Come out and join the fun. Cool art, group rides and live music, this weekend!
For more information visit www.pinchflatcolumbus.com
Help us make some Cambodian kids smile
Excitement is building within the Slagle household as we prepare to leave for Cambodia in May--just a bit over a month away! Our kids are wrapping up the school year and are learning about the Cambodian people and their history.
The primary purpose of our trip is to spend time with our extended church family: the staff and children of Asia's Hope Prek Eng 2 children's home—30 kids who can't wait for our visit. We have all of our travel plans and expenses covered but we really want to treat them to some special things while we are there. That's where you come in.
This is your opportunity, friends, clients, family, to treat orphans to a special meal, a trip to the zoo, a trip to the market to buy something special...
Please consider contributing some money to help us accomplish this task. 100% of the money we receive will be spent on the kids of PE 2. Let's show them how much Central Ohio really loves them. You may not be able to go yourself but any bit you can spare really adds up. The U.S. dollar still goes a long way in SE Asia.
To donate to our fund for the kids of PE 2 you can follow the link below. All gifts are tax deductible.
Join us on our adventure and follow our trip blog.
Thank you all so much!
Thank you Business First!
Thank you Business First for featuring my business in your Up Next Column this week. I'm truly honored.
PDF Slides iPad app is perfect
I had the opportunity to talk to my church this past Sunday. I used Indesign to build a PDF sideshow but I wanted to be able to be able to keep notes along with each slide without having to print out a stack of paper. It took more than three hours of searching on the app store before I found the PDF SLIDES app. There are plenty of options for PowerPoint users but this was the only one I found that works for PDF files.
It does everything I want it to do:
- Shows the current and next slide in the presentation
- Allows notes for each slide that do not appear on the presentation
- Times your presentation from the moment you advance the first slide (I recommend a "cover" slide that you can swipe past when your presentation starts.
- Shows a small timeline so you can see how far you are into your presentation (Very nice!)
- Works with Apple TV or video out (set it to mirroring)
- Works with Dropbox
- Laserpointer! use your finger to circle or point to parts of the slide. Nice feature.
- BONUS: there is a free app for the iphone or ipod touch that works as a wireless remote!
As nervous as I was to do the talk, the app really helped my keep my thoughts straight. I highly recommend it.
Pinchflat 3 Call for Entries
Calling all Central Ohio artists and designers! Pinchflat 3 Call for entries is available. We are changing things up this year. We are limiting the number of entries to 30 artists, with 30 posters. All posters will sell for $30 each.
For more information and to download the Call for Entries click here.