and here is the orginal:

I can help save your memories from age and wear by digitally restoring your old family photos – starting at only $50. Just click over the contact page and let me know you are interested in photo restoration.

The Downtown Merchants Association is what keep the downtown area viable in this little town.

While so many other small town squares have dried up I think that Moultrie’s is fairly successful.

The Antiques Road House is just one of the many events that they put on and most are cash flow positive.

It is fun getting to do some local work, not to mention a print design. I wouldn’t want to do either for a living, but every once in a while is nice

I did a video of last years event.

Conlan asked us to create a logo for The Open to Hope Foundation so we went ahead a whipped something up and thought that we wold share it with everyone.  We love logo design, so if you need an affordable logo, bounce on over to our contact page and we’ll be happy to discuss your new logo with you.

We love pixel fonts, love them. Therefore, once upon a time, JTk created this free, true type pixel font he named Pixelish ( so much for creative naming ) – Download the pixel font pixelish here.

As always, if you use it, please abide by the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License.

We call this wallpaper SkyGirls and it has always been one of our favorites.

It’s 1280×1024 and you are free to download it and use it how you see fit, but please respect the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike License.

You can download it here.

Okay, here is an older, smaller, desktop wallpaper that I created years ago – but we like it so I thought that I would post it here – Girls With Guns.

It’s 1280×1024, 204 kb in the jpeg format.

The original photo came from OpenPhoto.net and if you use it please respect the creative commons license. And of course, I love links to doc5.com, so if you like this site or use any of the content published on it, please give us a link.

Back in the day JTk whipped up this content box for one reason or another. If you are interested in using it or just tearing it apart in photoshop you are welcome to download it and do with it what you will as long as you respect the creative commons license.

You can see a full size jpeg here.

Download JTk’s Creative Commons Content Boxen Photoshop File Number One :: psd . 643 KB

I think that one of the hardest things for new designers to learn when they try and make a living doing design is that it really does not matter what you, the designer, think is good.

It really only matter what the client wants – you can try and use your knowledge of form, function, color, and creativity to nudge the client in the right direction, but in the end a for hire design job is only really successful if the client thinks that they have gotten a good value and are happy with the results.

Take, for instance, my latest project for an awesome photographer out on the left coast named melissa schwartz.. She is a WPJA award winning wedding photojournalist and has a distinct style – and a design style that is not exactly what I would do if it were left up to me.

But her custom WordPress theme is not about me, it’s about her. So after being warned that she was an artist and had strong opinions about how the blog should look I tried to remove my own bias from process and created her a mock up. This is what she said:

i’m kind of shocked…i love it! i’m usually really difficult to please =)

I admit that I was kinda shocked as well, I was prepared to have it ripped to pieces and heading back to the drawing board. I went ahead and starting cutting it up, helped her install WordPress and got the theme set up and she said:

i think it’s amazing, it looks awesome, you rock.

Not bad coming from a client that told me up front that she was going to be hard to please – but, I think, that by trying to remove my ego from the design process that she actually became easy to please.

I don’t do allot of print work, but I got a chance to create some business cards for a fellow main street business here in my little town and I liked the way they turned out.

They are an antique and primitive furniture store so I wanted the cards to look aged but still crisp and readable. The client loves them and I don’t hate them, and that is about as happy as I get about my designs…