JFlah's Blunders

Seems like a lifetime ago that I worked at Crown Craft designing baby bedding for their NoJo brand . It was a job that saved me from several bad life choices and helped to redirect me. But not only did it do those super important things, it helped me to see that I have decent design chops and each time I get in a spot where I think I'm invisible, or think that I'm not important or am not "good enough" I go check the status of the design I did at Crown Craft. The baby bedding set I designed for NoJo's Little Bedding brand is called Dreamland Teddy and since it took off and did so well, they've since made a pink version to compliment the neutral one I created while I was there. Surely they'll eventually phase it out - it's been selling for nearly eight years on walmart.com. On days like today, I go read the reviews of young mothers saying how much they love the cute design and I thank God that He gave me the ability and the opportunity to bless...

Can't believe that Walmart.com is still selling the infant bedding set I designed while at Crown Craft/NoJo . I was there for only a few months and they granted the the great honor to of allowing me to take this project and run with it. They even let me name it - Dreamland Teddy. It's done well enough that they have since made a pink version and I couldn't be happier about that. I've seen some of the reviews online and have to say that they're encouraging. When I'm feeling like what I design or draw isn't good enough or that what I'm doing looks juvenile or when I have any kind of negative thought about what I'm doing, I consider what a great success Dreamland Teddy continues to be even 5 years after I designed it and how uncertain I was about it even then. It's surprising how emotions so often prove to be unfounded in truth. Here're my mechanicals:

Black and white is always classy...   Brown is nice too - it's warm and inviting, but not as flexible in relation to design solutions. Who knew slat board could be so cool? The boss came back from a staff retreat and brought me the idea of using a slat wall as a solution for what I've jokingly called his "wall of faces" (loosely translated: it's a wall of pictures for the worship ministry). The pictures have been taken by one of our church members - a very talented photographer - they'll be grayscaled. If the idea is approved, it's going to be nice when it's done. The above images are two of the many mock ups I've done for this wall idea, and I have to say that I like the slat board idea so much better than any of the other media choices we've explored. It will prove to be the most flexible for future things too. Once the boards are up, it won't be hard to install and remove and rearrange pictures and such at will. Surprisingly...