Melissa, Oh?

She wants to approve all baby bump photos before they get uploaded to Facebook, so I’m going to be careful about the ones I use here since she hasn’t told me which ones she likes yet. 
But I’m so excited about the first photos I’ve been able to take of my unborn niece, that I can’t [...]

Call off the paparazzi? Not quite. But friends and I have gotten mention on a couple of Web sites as of late.
Fifteen minutes of fame take 1
Firstly, I wrote this post and Jeff wrote this post on our business blog about Adobe CS5and CreativeLIVE, and during the Q&A session, the instructors mentioned the post! If you want to [...]

Recently MOD created an identity for Home Measuring Services. Without further adieu, I’ll show it off here!

Postcards for Tommy, designed by yours truly:

I want to change the subject from all of this marathon talk, for those of you who are sick of hearing me go on and on about it …
And today I’ll segway from what I’ve been saying this week – if you believe in yourself, you can do anything – and into a client whose [...]

As if designing a wedding album isn’t enough fun, I got to design one for one of my closest childhood friends not too long ago. Jenny and Gary got married in May 2008 and I got to be a huge part of it by creating their graphics – wedding programs, favor books, and their wedding [...]

A hodgepodge of thoughts today:
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I’ll share a couple of sites I came across this week (mostly through social networking!):
D&AD Creative Search: I saw this one mentioned by several people on Twitter this week. Go ahead, type something in. I typed “flowers” and then I typed “Melissa Oyler” … it’s fun!
One hundred pushups: Ok, this is [...]

Had the opportunity to update the ad for Melissa Oyler Designs for the September edition of  Natural Awakenings Magazine (which I also do layout/design for). Check it out – what do you think?

But my friends at poetry assignment are rockin it! Please remember to check out their work and give them some comment love.
In the meantime and to try to get back into the spirit of things, I have been designing a poetry book of my work, hoping that looking at it will bring back my poetry-writing [...]

Ok, so a new monitor is really not that big of a deal, but I was working on a 19″ standard before. Of course, I use my laptop as a second monitor, so it wasn’t all bad, even before. This new one is a 24″ Dell, and, as you see in the picture, I can design magazine [...]