Illustration Friday - "Pale"

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President Elect Obama - Lava Lamp

There are a lot of artists producing posters and paintings to commemorate the inauguration of President Elect Barack Obama. My contribution to this flurry of capitalism is the design of Lava Lamp's new Collector's Edition resin lamp featuring a cameo portrait of the 44th President of the United States of America. Lava Lite, LLC is producing this lamp in limited quantities - so make sure you get your hands on one. These lamps are sure to be one of those unique souvenirs of an historic time in our nation's history. In 75 years, what piece of Americana will your grandchildren take to the Antiques Roadshow?...a Victory plate? - HA! a poster? - pishaw...The Commemorative Lava Lamp - that's where it's at.

You can read all about it here - Lava Lite website

As an Edit - the Chicago NBC affiliate did a quick little blurb on the lamp...you can view it here - but, you need to be using Internet Explorer - if you are using another browser, it's around 14:00 or so.

Illustration Friday - "Contained"

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Happy New Year - Now Get Back to Work!

Well, it's the first, for real work day of 2009. I literally had to psych myself up last night before I went to sleep so that waking up today and getting back to work wouldn't be a problem after the last two weeks of down time. Actually, truth be told, I didn't have all that much time off. I worked through the last two week sporadically, but, when I wasn't working, I had somewhere to be, or there was something to clean, or some party or get together to attend, etc. So, you could say that the last few weeks haven't exactly been restful.

One thing I have been concentrating on is my marketing plan for 2009. - I am all about the products from Marketing-Mentor.com. Ilise Benum and Peleg Top have written a great book about marketing and pricing for designers - Aptly titled "The Designers Guide to Marketing and Pricing" I read this book and then also purchased their 2009 Grow Your Business Marketing Plan + Calendar which I think will be very helpful for me with a few slight modifications and additions specific for my business. I will be following COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT, a.k.a. "the communicatrix," on her blog http://www.virgoguidetomarketing.com/ as she follows the 2009 Grow Your Business Marketing Plan + Calendar. I would also like to post my experiences using this system as well. Hopfully within a few months, I can report some improvements in my business.