Tag: design

  • It’s That Tax Time Again…

    Don’t forget to file your State of California Sales Tax, guys! One major benefit to focusing on freelance graphic design last year? I only had 4 transactions that had to collect sales tax. Filing my taxes took 5 minutes! Okay, 10 minutes. It took me just a tiny bit to remember where the helpful sales tax…

  • Stand and Deliver

    When we got to Grandma’s for the holidays, she had a big surprise for Phil in the form of a table he could stand at to play with his toys. Little boy was all over it for the entire 2.5 weeks we were there. This week was back to the grind in the home office.…

  • HeartSpace Logo Design

    I recently finished up a logo design project for HeartSpace Horse Guided Education, check it out: We started with one concept and ended with another on this design, and I am so happy with how it turned out. Collaborating with Melanie was great! She’s located in the Portland, Oregon area, so communication was key in rocking…

  • Time for a Thrift Store Photo Extravaganza!

    Josh and I found ourselves at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore thrift store in Las Cruces, New Mexico, over the holidays. I seriously can’t believe all the good stuff we saw! I’m a big-time browser, so none of this actually came home with me… I just wanted to preserve the magic and share some of it with y’all!…

  • Wrappin’ Up 2011 and Getting Ready for 2012

    It really has been a whirlwind year, guys. Just yesterday, we were making the hours long trek home from Phil’s first xmas in New Mexico . Today we trek home again from his second New Mex Christmas with Grandma. It blows my mind how fast time has passed, how much has happened in the last…

  • Show and Tell: Custom Blog Graphics and Downloadable for CAbi

    I do blog layout work on a regular basis for CAbi’s shopping and style blog CAbi Canary, and I wanted to share the New Year’s Eve Party edition! This blog edition featured the usual layout and photo montage work, but has an extra zing here and there in the form of custom map and note…

  • Merry Christmas from Hearts and Laserbeams!

    From all of us at Hearts and Laserbeams, cheers to all of you and best wishes for the happiest of holidays. May your Christmas be full of friends, family and fun! We’ll be driving down to old town Mesilla in New Mexico to enjoy some cider at Josephina’s and show Phil the 20 bazillion lumenarios…

  • Show and Tell: Blog Tweaks for Cupcakes and Cutlery

    Kristin Ausk of the ever-delicious Meringue Bake Shop recommended me to her friend Sharon Garofalow of Cupcakes and Cutlery for some graphic design support last month. Sharon had started a website redesign recently. She hit a point where she liked where her new blog header was headed (you see what I did there?), but wasn’t entirely sure…

  • Show and Tell: Nature Skull Tee at Kohl’s

    We don’t always hear where our tee designs end up when working on projects for clients, so it’s always super fun to run across a design unexpectedly! Visit Kohl’s now and you can pick up this Nature Skull tee we worked on: This design for the Mudd brand features lots of vector silhouettes of birds and forest…

  • Google Analytics: How Y’all Got Here

    It’s always fun to fire up Google Analytics to find out how people are finding this site. One time, someone got here by typing “laser schwing”. Which of course is awesome. Here’s 10 keyword searches that brought folks to good ol’ Hearts and Laserbeams in November: 1) A whopping 20 people have come to my…

  • Show and Tell: Love Script Tee on Delias.com

    Celebrate Cyber Monday with a purchase of one of our designs currently available on Delias.com! Steph Calvert of Hearts and Laserbeams created the hand-drawn scripty love illustration seen on the teal colorway of the Molly tee for CDC Apparel, and now it can be yours – on sale! This design features a hand-drawn font, illustrated with a…

  • Show & Tell: Space Wolf Shirt at Urban Outfitters

    In honor of Black Friday, we wanted to share a tee design we did for Daydreamer LA that’s currently available at Urban Outfitters! Buying a Daydreamer LA tee from Urban Outfitters is a way to shop with one of your fave major stores while supporting Small Business Saturday at the same time. The indie t-shirt line…

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