Meet Seymour Sea Dragon and Santiago Sea Turtle! You can see Santiago brightly swimming around town on the 3rd t-shirt illustration in the San Diego Blood Bank's 70th anniversary series. After the Dulce, Diego and Duke Dolphin "Celebrated the Past" and Octavia Octopus "Embraced the Present", we needed a cheerful representative to "Improve the Future". Sea Dragons are amazing creatures that have a cool connection to San Diego. While they are native only to Australian waters, our own Birch Aquarium has a world-renown sea dragon breeding program and from the first time I saw them there, I was mesmerized. Although I had already started a sea turtle design, when Michael at the Blood Bank suggested a sea dragon, I was hooked. So how did the third t-shirt design turn out to be Santiago the Sea Turtle then? And where is Seymour now?

For my second San Diego Blood Bank t-shirt illustration I was tasked with creating a fun new design that would carry on the local sea life theme while communicating the second part of the campaign slogan of "Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Present and Improving Life Tomorrow". Who would be better at "embracing the present" than an octopus?!? Whereas the dolphins (our first design) had retro styling to reference the past, we wanted a contemporary look for this one. Armed (yuk yuk!) with these concepts and inspired by action sports logos and my love of cephalopods,  I set to work, however, it took a bit of Disney magic to bring it all together. 

Seaport San Diego is a wildly creative and ambitious new downtown development that will add an array of amenities to the waterfront area. With world renown architects and public relations by the talented crew at MNM Advertising & PR, we’ll no doubt be hearing a lot about this over the coming months. This website upgrade project consisted entirely of one key objective - replicating the look and feel of a technically-problematic Wordpress build on the much more user-friendly Weebly platform. As I often find with Wordpress, the site was originally created to be maintained solely by the developer, so the site owner did not have the ability to add additional features over time. Additionally, the site owner wanted to escape the tedious security hassles of maintaining an aging Wordpress site. ​

Website redesign for LymphaStrip
​Working closely with the business owner we created a streamlined, vibrant, upbeat site to speak to her primarily female audience of breast cancer survivors and mastectomy clinicians. The site features an excellent video by Chris Neighbors of Blue Wheel Productions that does a great job of artfully telling the story behind the product. Visit the site at lymphastrip.com. 

New website for PhysicalYogaTherapy.com
​Experienced therapist and yoga instructor Donna Chisholm combines physical therapy and yoga to help people recover from injuries, stay well as they age, and improve overall wellness. She even offers in-home visits for seniors. Too bad she's in Bend, OR. and not San Diego! Visit her new website at physicalyogatherapy.com. ​​

Redesign and tech upgrade for PoseidonWater.com
Poseidon had a nice site but it was very hard to work with and didn't perform well on mobile. In the overhaul we kept the basic design but upgraded the technology to be much more user friendly and mobile optimized. In the process we did a site-wide content refresh to feature their newest project, the Claude "Bud" Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant. ​