The City Pool

One of our newer endeavors, The City Pool has been a long time coming. It’s really Andrew’s baby, but I’ve been helping him out. If you are into sports, Ohio, and t-shirts please check out our new store.

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Q: 3-6 Months

After I made the first Q video, I decided that I’m going to try to make a video every three months. Here’s number two in the series. Enjoy!

Q: 3-6 Months from Crystal Madrilejos on Vimeo.

*update: Forgot to mention, the song is “The People Who Raised Me” by Gregory and the Hawk

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yhs: Fruits & Vegetables - Garden View

Hazy days of summer.



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Mom’s

My Mom’s birthday is this Friday. I made this collage for her party invite. I don’t know why, but collages have been my fun-design-project of choice lately.



My Mom has so many great photos, it was hard to choose which to use. Happy Birthday Mom!

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Jumbo

This is what happens when you let your zucchini grow for too long. Monstrous.



The one on the far right is a normal sized zucchini. Yikes!

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Birthday Invitations

Being one of the two graphic designers in the family (my brother, Tom, is also a designer. Check out his work here. It’s really great.), my computer skills are called upon pretty regularly to design invites for all types of occasions. My Mom’s 66th birthday is this month and I’ve been asked to do the invitation for her party. Over the years, I’ve found that designing invitations for my family can be a fun way to play around and do all the crazy things I normally can’t do when it comes to client work. It’s also a good way to learn new things in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, but still have a purpose and a finished product in the end.

This year was my Dad’s 70th birthday and we threw a big surprise party. My sister had a cake made at one of those places that has one of those fancy frosting printers and I got to design the graphic for the top of the cake. Most of the time those printouts don’t turn out well because it’s usually just a bad quality photo or just completely botched. But there is actually so much potential for it to turn out really cool!

This is what we had printed on my Dad’s cake:



And it turned out pretty neat! (Unfortunately, we I don’t have a photo of the actual cake. If I can find one, I'll post it.)

Just one note, if you are planning on having something printed on a cake. Try not to use a graphic that has big areas of black, or all your guests will be walking around with discolored teeth! I tried to keep the black to a minimum on this one, but or course it’s difficult to not have any black if you are going to have any type of photo.

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Friends of Mine

I am proud to say that we have some crazy talented friends. Our great friends Toby and Angela came to visit from NYC a couple months ago and one day we sat around and made Onesies for Q. I'm pretty sure he has already outgrown them by now (he could probably squeeze into one with a paper diaper but not his bulky cloth ones), but these will definitely be going into the memory box! We used plain white Gerber Onesies and TeeJuice fabric pens.


Drawing by Toby Goodshank


Drawing by Angela Carlucci (the same lovely lady who made our wedding papercut!)

Thanks yous twos!
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P.S. Andrew, my brother and I all made a Onesie, but I haven’t gotten good pictures of those yet. Will post one day...