graphic design & communication
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.
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.
Come out and join the fun. Cool art, group rides and live music, this weekend!
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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.
Thank you Business First for featuring my business in your Up Next Column this week. I'm truly honored.
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:
As nervous as I was to do the talk, the app really helped my keep my thoughts straight. I highly recommend it.
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.
Brittany Baum returned from a trip to Germany with a deep desire to recreate the authentic Bavarian pretzels she fell in love with while over seas. After perfecting the recipe, she treated her friends to these amazing delicies and then began selling her pretzels at local farmers markets. Brittany quickly realized she was on to something big. For the past two years, Brittany has had a space in Columbus' historic North Market where her business has blossomed. It's not uncommon to find her pretzels, pizza crusts, hot dog buns and rolls feautured in many Central Ohio restaurants.
Now, for the first time, Brēzel's pretzels will be available outside the North Market, in the grocery store frozen food aisle.
It was my privilege to be able to work with Brittany and her team along with writing/strategy superstar, Christine Myers, to craft a new logo and Identity for their new North Market space as well as their pretzel stick packaging.
Be sure to watch for Brēzel Sticks to start popping up at Central Ohio Whole Foods and other grocery stores.
You can read more about their business expansion on Columbus Underground.
Quaint Co. was a result of a 2012 new year's resolution. As a graphic designer by trade, I was selling posters and art prints on my company website at www.jeremyslagle.com. I needed to separate my design business from my personal artwork so as not to water down my business offerings. It turned out to be a great idea.
As of last August, the sales were up a little but not nearly where I was hoping they would be. Then I got an email from fab.com; they wanted to sell my posters at the same time that I was leaving for a three week trip to Cambodia. Thanks to my wife and mother in law, they were able to fullfill the orders in my absence. The Fab sale was just what we needed to jumpstart sales.
I went to Cambodia with a few friends from my church to visit the children in an orpanage that my family has supported for the past seven years. I had no idea the impact that that trip would have on my life. You can read more about in on my travel blog here.
While I was there, I called my wife and asked her to consider something: What if Quaint Co. could be a way to raise enough money to bring the whole family (Becky and I and our two children) to Cambodia to meet the kids in 2013? She enthusiastically agreed. The following months were amazing! Between August and the end of 2012, sales increased by over 23 times! Enough to buy our tickets, PLUS send two of the older kids at the orphanage to college for their first year, buy a new motorcycle for the orphanage director, and donate a chunk towards rebuilding a new orphan home which had been destroyed by fire in Thailand! Amazing.
So, as of 2013, we are going to be more public about our involvement with Asia's Hope in Prek Eng, Cambodia. Not only to give you an opportunity to support us but to raise awareness of this amazing organization which we support whole-heartedly.
As of January, we still have some expenses to cover on our trip and we are putting 100% of the sales between now and June, 2013 towards covering our remaining expenses plus we'd like to have some extra money to spend on the kids while we are there to take them out to dinner and spoil them a little.
Every poster makes a difference!
I cant wait to see what happens in 2013. Thank you to all who have supported our vision by buying our artwork. Quaint Co. and the children of Prek Eng 2 orphanage appreciate it!
ALSO: if you don't have any more wall space for cool art and wish to donate to a fund that goes directly to spend on the kids of Prek Eng 2 you can donate at the link below. All of this money will be spent on helping out with the orphan home. None of these funds will be used for our travel expenses.
I plan to be there for the opening. Should be fun. Come one come all!
