Playing Catch-up

In the past few months I've had the privilege of working on a handful of great stories, written by our talented editors at the magazine which have been a blast to design.



This "Tunnel Quiz", written by Matt Halverson, about the never-ending debate about what to do/how to pay for the Alaskan Way viaduct is hilarious. I mimicked the design after a Scantron test. It was a tricky puzzle to design, trying to get all the little pieces and parts to fit properly was quite a challenge. I love how the opener turned out, though hand placing all those little pencil marks was pretty tedious!


This spread comes from an article about local photographer, Chase Jarvis' new book "Seattle 100: Portrait of a City". The book is the culmination of a 3-year long person project that features a vast collection of portraits of prominent artists, writers, architects, musicians, chefs, athletes, designers etc. from Seattle. It's always a pleasure designing something that starts with such beautiful photography. I wanted to keep the design simple and clean to let the photographs speak for themselves. Having full spreads was also a fun luxury to design.


It was so much fun working on this holiday tabletop design feature with the talented ladies from The Adventure School, and Annette Lefebvre of Luxe: Productions & Wedding Design. The designers created 2 beautiful, and dramatically different tabletop designs that were photographed for the magazine by Ryan McVay. I worked with our photography intern, Anne Dixon, to create this special behind the scenes video. It had been a while since I've worked with video, but overall I'm pleased with the final piece. Coincidentally, The Adventure School is the mastermind behind the design of my husband's office holiday party for PopCap Games. I'm dying to see what they've created for this event.
And finally, last month I wrapped up a fun feature called "Extreme Pampering: Adventures in Spa Treatments" -- another hilarious article written by Laura Dannen and Christopher Werner . The editors tried some of the most ridiculous sounding "spa treatments" I've ever heard of. -- everything from cupping therapy to sound massage to chocolate body wrap. I commissioned Mark Matcho, to create the illustrations for this piece, while Paul Kooiman photographed the drop caps and opening X dripping with...you guessed it...honey!