0 Introducing Benson James Baker

Many of you have probably already seen this, but here's the aviator-themed baby announcement I designed for our little Benson boy.

1 At Your Service

Here's a new illustration, designed in Inkscape. (Answer this for me: How nice would it be to have a robot butler?)

0 Commercial Club Building

I've been on a historical buildings fix as of late and the Commercial Club Building, located at 32 Exchange Place in downtown Salt Lake City, is one of my favorites. This is the first of what I hope to be many prints in a historical buildings series I will be designing in the coming weeks.

UPDATE (7/31/2012): I ended up hating the original version I had posted and decided to give the Commercial Club Building another try. This is the fifth (and final, I hope) iteration.

0 REDESIGN: All Things Bright and Beautiful

Andrea had been asking me to redesign her blog for, oh, probably the past four months, and I finally got around to it yesterday. Her blog has been getting all kinds of hits and she has sold over 325 items from her Etsy shop—for which I am super proud of her—so she was hoping for a classier, more professional-looking theme. It may have taken me the better part of the day—actually, the entire day would probably be more accurate—but I'm quite happy with the outcome. You can have a look here: All Things Bright and Beautiful.

Here's a quick glimpse at the before and after:

Speaking of blogs and how well a certain blog is doing, mine certainly isn't. I've spent far more time on Andrea's blog than I have on my own and I've posted all of 6 times this year, which isn't cutting it. I'm committing to start posting more as of today, and who knows, my blog might even get a much needed redesign sometime in the near future.

UPDATE (7/28/2012): So I gave my blog the much needed "redesign" I mentioned in this post, only instead of actually redesigning anything I ended up copying the majority of the work I did on Andrea's blog to my own blog. It'll work for now.

2 Temple Prints

Andrea and I finally got around to framing the print I made of the Salt Lake temple for Kenzie's room, and watching General Conference this morning reminded me of the following counsel from President Monson during the April 2011 conference: 

To you parents of young children, may I share with you some sage advice from President Spencer W. Kimball. Said he: “It would be a fine thing if … parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple so [their children] from the time [they are] infant[s] could look at the picture every day [until] it becomes a part of [their lives]. When [they reach] the age that [they need] to make [the] very important decision [concerning going to the temple], it will have already been made.”

Here are a few more prints I made this morning, as well as the one I made for Kenzie's room:

0 You Make Me Happy

0 print series: love.

You may have already seen Andrea's post about the wonders she's worked on our apartment to make it look nice. With her encouragement, my role in that process was designing a series of prints we are framing and hanging throughout the house. Find the digital copies here.

Let me know what you think. If you like these, stay tuned. There's more to come.