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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Hello Everyone,
Believe it or not, it’s that time of year again… the retail stores have declared that the holidays are upon us. Before you buy those discount Christmas cards that are already in the aisles of Costco and Target, check out my website for UNIQUE and CUSTOM photo card ideas. Your greeting will stand out above the rest with my photo cards.
My cards are the BEST:
Can’t get your whole family to look good at the same time?
Allow me to custom design a card for you with multiple photos.
Tired of the same old holiday letter?
Send a timeline of your year with pictures.
Want to actually write on your photo card?
I offer folding paper cards (just like Hallmark!) with the photo on the front.
Tired of writing long notes?
I offer postcards with your message already printed on the back.
Have a crazy idea for your cards?
I will work with you to custom design it. Please check out one of my favorites at:
http://www.scarletdolphin.com/cards/pages/2004-Fowkes.htm
Don’t have a good photo for your card?
I now offer professional photography services for those of you in the Bay Area.
Please view examples of my photography at:
http://www.scarletdolphin.com/photography
All of my cards are separately custom designed just for you based on your wants and input. I offer different options for cards: 4x6 and 5x7 folded cards, 5x7 postcards, and traditional 4x8 photo cards. Pricing varies depending on what style you choose and how many you order. Yes, you can get multi-image cards from online places like Shutterfly, but they will not be custom designed for you. I received 3-4 of one particular Shutterfly design last year. If you order cards from me, you won’t see your cards anywhere else this holiday season!
Take a look at some examples of my work at:
http://www.scarletdolphin.com/cards.html
I look forward to hearing from you!
JJ
In addition to our best selling Wonder Twin Powers Activate designs, we have created a new Wonder Twins design based on the Superfriends comic design with the cool 70s rainbow background. In this version, Jayna and Zan are standing on words that are rocketing right out of the design. It reads, "Wonder Twin Powers Activate" and behind them is a circular rainbow in all those great comic book colors. We think it's even groovier and more interesting than our originals. Visit our store to see all the great products on which this cool design is available.
The pictures on this page are of my sons. I adore the photo of Kai crying because it sums up his whole first year of life! To not have a portrait of him crying would be trying to hide who he was at that moment in time. The picture of my twin boys, Dax and Kai, on the beach is funny because, Kai wouldn't put his leg down at all while I was trying to take his picture; while his odd .JPG)
behavior was exasperating at the time, its makes for a hilarious memory now. The look on his face is the exactly the same expression that he still makes today. Will he make that same face when he's 25? Who knows, but I'll be able to remember it like it was yesterday with this photo. After all, aren't memories what photography is all about?
I know it's hard to believe with Christmas and New Year's Eve just past, but Valentine's Day is on the way! I was thinking about Valentine's Day and those little candy conversation hearts today. Those were always so much fun to share with friends and see what everyone's said. When I was a kid they were tame and readable! The most risqué was probably "Call Me." I saw a new package at the store and some of the hearts said, "Email Me" and others I had no idea what they said. I have realized that I am officially "old." I find myself assuming that anything I can't read (like "A/S/L") must be code for something obscene.
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