My friend Cassie Ketrick is passionate about her feet, the color turquoise and film. Her love of film lead her to found CAN (Cinematic Artists of Norman) CAN’s mission is to strengthen the Norman film community by providing resources and outlets for anyone who wants to make films. I was impressed with the initiative Cassie took to create CAN so I asked if i could make a logo and poster for her first meeting.

For their logo, CAN wanted something clean and modern. Structured without being stuffy. Simple treatment with Neutra Book mixing upper and lower cases. deep blue and lime green provide the contrast.

Cassie provided all the copy for the first poster and she said “make it fun” So I did.

I was honored to be invited to speak at a recent AIGA Oklahoma event called 20 x 2. 20 designers had 2 minutes each to speak about the future of design in Oklahoma. 2 minutes? brutal.

I decided to talk about web usability and how important setting goals for your site and organizing your information is as well as poke fun at http://www.evangelcathedral.net/ a usability nightmare, but AWESOME graphix! (graphics with an “x” means its extra badass.)

About halfway through my presentation, I get the air horn signifying my 2 minutes of fame has ended. I blow through the rest of my presentation ending it by shouting: “Make it beautiful. Make is Usable!” I had a great time and reconnected with old friends and even made some new ones.