Does the Blog Header Guy Still Do Other Design Work?

Being a design guy for thirty years, I sometimes get asked by my header clients to design logo's, business cards, brochures, etc.

I'm normally so up to my elbows just doing blog header designs that I usually decline. But I wasn't too busy and this husband and wife team are just nice folks to work with, so I made an exception for them.

Plus, I had just done the web design concept drawing as a pattern for their other designer that I thought I'd just be able to knock this one out. Boy was I wrong.

So what was the design for? A half-page SuperPages ad.

You talk about a nightmare.

Lisa had a vision for a very interesting design that was nothing like a typical YP ad and I wanted to do it.

Coming up with just the right photographs to please their client was test of endurance. And fitting everything into the ad made me reach into my bag of tricks and pull out my earliest sign design training.

I had the honor of taking some classes back in the eighties, with Mike Stevens and John Knox, that taught me about prioritizing copy.

Well, here's the before and the after designs…what do you think?

BEFORE:

AFTER:

So there you have it.

The Blog Header Guy does all kinds of designs and other neat stuff. It can't hurt to ask.

Roy