ELEVEN ELEVEN ANIMAL RESCUE LOGO/TSHIRTS/ETC!

Lil' logo for the wonderful peeps at Eleven Eleven Animal Rescue in Montreal! Working on the website and some fun t-shirts for them too- more later!
Love! Christine

EnjoY! LOGO

Here is a logo I designed for Enjoy! PR and Marketing. An all new company that represents musicians and artists. I love them! :) They'll be handing my press/interviews/etc. as well. Woohoo!
Love! C

T-SHIRTS FOR THE GREEN WAGON

Here are a few shirts that I made for the opening of The Green Wagon in Nashville, TN. ( I designed the logo and did all the identity, created a typeface, etc..for the company). So cute!! :) There is a whole series of shirts I'm working on right now for them that I'll post up soon! Also, you'll be able to find my jewelry, artwork, and more shirts and shirts for kids at the shop! It's such an amazing company owned by Jennifer Casale and it's been so beautiful watching her dream of the shop come true---and then expand into other areas! Super fun! Love! Christine

TREMENDOUS RECORDS LOGO OPTIONS

Ecoloveco is my "imaging and branding" name. This record label wanted something bold and simple. I thought a great way to illustrate their logo was to make rays of light or sound exploding from the name or above it.

ecoloveco BRANDING/IMAGING/REBRANDING/ECOBRANDING

ANOTHER business I have: ecoloveco
Branding/imaging/rebranding/ecobranding

Other than being a designer/musician/photographer and illustrator, I am also an imaging and branding specialist. I brand companies through market research, color theory, and client profile. This is my company: I brand, I rebrand, and I even do eco-branding. This is the intelligent side of design where I get to analyze my client, create and present my design, and pretend to be a super smart businesswoman (okay, not pretend, but show my mature side). I LOVE doing it. I love creating an identity and imagining it from the smallest thing (the logo on a business card) to the scope of a website to the sign outside the door, to the architecture and design of the company, to it's logo carved on the moon. Haha.I even started to consult people on their own personal identity and branding. Helping people and companies find their passion/mission as well as helping them present it to the world and attract their dream clients is something I really like to do. :)

The thing that makes my company special is that I approach it as a science/study which is what is ECOlogical about my service. The ecological aspect can relate to both original branding (the study between the an organism [in this case, the company] and it's environment [the client, society, marketing and color trends,etc.]) as well as conservationalist eco-branding (the study of detrimental effects of modernism on society and the presevation and conservation) where I can help a company become more eco-conscious by designing a line for them and aiding them in their creation/statement/mission.

My style is very clean, minimal, conservative, intelligent, but also playful and witty. I love to integrate Bauhaus design theory with a modern playful sheen-but I can adhere to any style, if my client thinks it represents them the best. AND I love working with color theory and analyzing how the color will effect the business, how it represents the company, and attracts the client.

The LOVE and CO aspect is that I work with love (just like Love, Christine) and that my client and I have a mutual respect for one another-just as the company would have with their own client. It's important to establish this, as our company is a SERVICE and through our service and talents we help change the world with our passions. Hopefully my clients are moving toward a more consciously minded company or at least realize what their impact has on humanity. Yes, even the smallest things, the smallest companies create a ripple and my idea is as long as we work in love and fraternity, our ripple is clean.

The second image is a company I just branded today. A management firm that specializes in a variety of services. They're going to manage me, actually, so, even better that I like the look/feel/and vibe of the company. Ha. :)

Back to work trying to figure out how to use dreamweaver so I can MAKE my ecoloveco website work and put up my portfolio!

LOVE! Christine

THIS AMERICAN LIFE

I love these. I'm putting them up here because I did them right before I came to Montreal. I found out about the contest under an hour before midnight (deadline) and jammed on them, submitting the final one at a romantic 11:59. They haven't made their decisions yet so everything is tense, the weather is wondering, but, if they chose my design I will probably shoot up like a rocket, seed a cloud (like the chinoise!), and make super sunny happy weather for Montreal (deposit raindrops over a sad pond or presently parched big mouthed prehistoric frogs that come out when no one is looking). This American Life makes me cry all the time and I have a crush on the translucent voice of (pun?) Ira Glass. Love, so much love. If one of them doesn't win, it's okay, because I like these so much I'm just glad they exist. The first is my fav: it is a take on our society:
"Oh, uh...hmm...we share this very small pond...well...umm....I'm going to pretend I don't see that person...oh okay, they're not leaving, alright, well....hmm...I'm going to practice saying hello, maybe it will look like I am saying goodbye..."
Eventually you've gotta do something.

When I was in Russia I smiled at everyone and got strange looks. Someone told me they automatically assumed you were mentally retarded. You know, it's not that bad in the United States. I think people are pretty friendly, at least, I grew up in the Midwest and everyone is friendly if they aren't racist or drunk ( deep in the woods, yes, it still exists) and in California the weather is so insanely nice, you can't help but smile. Maybe I'm thinking of New York, the trains, or maybe I'm thinking of all of societies, or maybe I'm thinking of something far greater than all of this. Hmm!

The second one is the view from a TV or a Radio or a Computer, watching us, watching us watching them..ooh, the life, our lives.
The third is American pride, freedom of speech, the youth, etc. I snuck Snoopy in there too for many different reasons, one being that I love Snoopy and I think Snoopy is genius.
You can interpret these any way you want. My process is that I love something, I make it, then I realize what it means after. Thats usually the best way to get from A to B, although it seems to be a little backwards and upside down...like...
in...space...oooohhh!!!

If TAL asked me to do work for them, I would backflip while saying yes in 7 different languages. It's love=true love.

ECO BRANDING

Workin away!

I've been branding and designing the website for this super cool eco-consulting biz and store in Nashville! This is just the temporary splash/concept page, but by the end of it all it will all be mostly illustrated by hand with this notebook paper feel to it. Since Jennifer Casale (the owner) is also a poet-I wanted to give it a vintagy/bookish/screenprinted look to it as well. I'll have my jewerly in the shop when it opens since they are made up vintage parts and hopefully be more involved with it all! :)

I do a lot of "eco branding" and I even have a website I'm working on for myself called "ecoloveco" that specializes in ecobranding or rebranding! :) I love creating identity for a greater cause. I've been really lucky to have had a lot of eco or "green" clients like:
+SnL is an awesome PR company that I've had the pleasure to re-brand their company, design invitations that were 100% recycled and sustainable, and give them a look for their whole eco section.
+Gramicci clothing I rebranded their ecoline and called it "greenicci" and was in charge of designing and making the trim, hangtags, packaging etc. made of sustainable materials! That was fun. ! :)
+Neat Clothing I was in charge of their image and logo, they're all specialized bamboo materials.
+CleanDreams is a super cute bedding line I did a little consulting with and designed some bedsheets.

Super fun eco party. News on "ecoloveco" soon. :)



ALSO my friend and I are starting an all organic company called HEART ORGANICS (of course! It has to have something to do with love or hearts! Haha.) and the first line is a baby line called "love,baby"...:) I'm working on a whole team of international cute animals with stories from each of their countries--which will be printed on little baby clothes, made into little, books, textiles, etc...but this project is going to go very slowly and sweetly, baby step at a time because we are both busy busy bee's and we're just doing it because we love organic stuff, cute things, and babies (she has two). But, my other friends with babies are jumping in with great ideas and I think if we all work together, HEART ORGANICS can be a huge hit. Why? BECAUSE we all do it with love. Always!

:)
Love, Christine