Tuesday, September 16, 2008

New Scarlet Dolphin Media Website


Scarlet Dolphin Media has just rolled out an awesome new website. It’s easy to find examples of our work from logos to marketing materials and holiday cards to invitations. There are wonderful photos of what the t-shirts, magnets, and other items look like when completed and put into action. Please stop by for a visit and tell a friend!
http://www.scarletdolphin.com/

Saturday, September 06, 2008

It's not too early to start thinking about Holiday Cards!

It might not even be Halloween yet, but this really is the best time to start thinking about your holiday cards. Why wait until the last minute to get your portrait for your card? Take it now while you are still tan from your great summer vacation. Portraits can be of your whole family or just your kids, pets or new house. Contact JJ Barber at Scarlet Dolphin Media now to set up an appointment for an amazing holiday portrait to put on our one-of-a-kind custom designed Holiday Cards!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

San Bruno Mothers Club Logo

JJ Barber at Scarlet Dolphin recently designed a new logo for the San Bruno Mothers Club. After coming up with a multitude of new design possibilities, the membership voted for this logo.

Helen O’Brien was the SBMC contact for the project. She said, “JJ has done a wonderful job at redesigning the San Bruno Mothers Club logo. She was provided with parameters of how the logo should look and was able to turn out many good designs in a short amount of time. All work was delivered on time as promised. JJ was able to work with many different personalities on this project. She provided us with good, solid feedback. She delivered great work at a reasonable cost. I would hire her again for future projects.”

Read more recommendations of JJ Barber and Scarlet Dolphin on LinkedIn.

Monday, July 14, 2008

What people are saying about JJ Barber & Scarlet Dolphin...

“JJ does beautiful work. But most importanly she does it in a timely fashion. It seemed like every time we called her we needed something like yesterday. She always came through.”

July 8, 2008
Jack Marshall, VP of Customer Success, Fortify Software


Find out what others have to say about JJ Barber and Scarlet Dolphin on LinkedIn.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

AVAC Fall Registration Postcards

Four times a year Scarlet Dolphin Media creates the registration materials for AVAC Swim School in San Jose, CA. The Fall registration materials include a postcard that is mailed out to the returning swim school families. The Fall postcard conveys a lot of information and it is difficult to display it in a manner that isn't confusing. I think the matrix with the questions that JJ Barber came up with this year really works.

Monday, July 07, 2008

Wine and Spirits Logo

Scarlet Dolphin Designs was hired to design a logo for BevConnect.com. BevConnect is the Business and Social Network for Beer, Wine, and Spirits Professionals. The logo needed to reflect the both wine professionals as well as the beer and spirits professionals. Since the network is international, the logo is based on a globe. This entire message needed to be conveyed in a logo that could be clear at a very small scale. It was a tall order, but JJ Barber managed to pull it off on time and under budget.

Please contact JJ Barber at Scarlet Dolphin if you need a logo design for your business.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Future Drummer Shirts Rock!

Another Scarlet Dolphin Designs hot seller is our color Future Drummer artwork. This design works if you have a little drummer in the making or if you are a determined adult. Everyone knows that it's the drummer that gets all the chicks!

This cool, brightly colored Future Drummer design is available on t-shirts, mugs, caps, sweatshirts and more!

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

"Dolphin Trainer" is a hot seller!

My Dolphin Trainer design has become a hot seller this summer. It is available on t-shirts, caps, bags, buttons and a whole lot more. Please visit my Scarlet Dolphin Designs (scarletdolphin) store on CafePress to see all of the fun stuff you can get with my Dolphin Trainer design. If you like that, you will also enjoy my Whale Trainer products.

AVAC Swim School 2008 T-Shirts

Scarlet Dolphin Media has had a great partnership with AVAC Swim School for several years. I, JJ Barber, have been creating their annual t-shirt design for the last 7 years. This year the shirt featured the cute sea creatures I created for AVAC swimming around their Little Boy logo. Each swimmer gets one of the shirts at the beginning their first session that calendar year. The kids love the shirts. I see people wearing them wherever I go—Costco, Target, Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, etc.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

AVAC Swim School Advertising

For several years now I have been doing graphic design for AVAC Swim School. I do their annual t-shirts, quarterly schedule of classes, registration information, and advertising. The main place AVAC Swim School advertises is in Bay Area Parent Magazine. I do a full page, full color ad for them every month. This is the one that appeared in May's Bay Area Parent. I went with an Olympic theme because of the upcoming summer olympics. With most of my clients, I don't come up with the advertising taglines or wording. AVAC gives me a little more leeway. I came up with, "We’re ready for fun and summer games… begin your quest for the gold at AVAC.”

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Spring Fling Frisbees

I had a great idea to have frisbees as the giveaway instead of t-shirts at the Don Callejon School Spring Fling. (Get it... fling... frisbee?!) I worked with Marshall at Century Graphics in Sunnyvale to create these frisbees for Don Callejon School's Spring Fling event. I got the logos of the sponsors from various sources and put them together in the circle design. I handed that over to Marshall who got it printed on these great orange (the school's color) frisbees.

Monday, June 09, 2008

Don Callejon School Staff Shirts and Hats

Don Callejon School needed a design to be embroidered on polo shirts and baseball caps. It needed to utilize the existing “tri-paw” logo but in a more sophisticated design for the staff rather than the students. The staff was very pleased with what I came up with. They all enjoy wearing their staff shirts and hats.

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Sutter Elementary 5th Grade Grads

I designed t-shirts for the Sutter Elementary School students who were graduating from 5th grade to Middle School. Keeping with Sutter's frog theme, these shirts featured 3 frogs playing instruments and standing on "Schoolhouse Rock" type letters. The kids loved them!

Friday, May 30, 2008

Muscle Bee-1972 Monte Carlo-Car Art


I recently created a "muscle bee" cartoon for a friend of mine. He had it painted on his 1972 Monte Carlo which he restored. I was thrilled to see it turned out so nice! It's exciting to think that my muscle bee is flying the highways and biways of Southern California!



Thursday, May 29, 2008

Sutter Elementary Frog Jump 2008

When Sutter Elementary needed a t-shirt design for their annual frog jump, they came to Scarlet Dolphin Designs. I came up with this cute design for the t-shirts. I specialize in animal cartoons so I, JJ Barber, was a great choice for the job. They liked the design so much that it appeared on advertising as well.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Gemini Crickets Logo

Recently I designed the logo for the Silicon Valley Parents of Multiples Club. The club's name is Gemini Crickets. The logo was fun to design. The club wanted friendly, cartoon crickets wearing kids' clothes.

The Twins Club said, "We are very grateful to talented club member, JJ Barber of Scarlet Dolphin Designs (http://www.scarletdolphin.com/) for creating our fabulous new logo. It’s not easy to render a cricket cute, so kudos to JJ Barber for accomplishing this task.

Read more about it on the Gemini Crickets website.