I’ve been holding off on posting about our New Years invites because, frankly, I’m concerned that images won’t do them justice – but the time has come.
This year was our fourth year hosting a black tie NYE, and our third designing formal invitations. For a peek at years past, check out this post, and the portfolio.
What, this wasn’t part of your New Year’s celebration? That’s a shame.
We kicked off 2012 with our annual shindig, with a few new additions – most importantly, a photo booth. We’ll share this year’s invitations and a few recipes from the fete that were a hit soon; in the meantime, a few of our favorite shots.
A quick sneak-peek behind the holiday projects underway right now:
Here’s wishing you a yours a very happy holiday season!
Today at Thread.The.Needle, Maria gets the scoop on the origin of our name, inspiration, wanderlust and my best bread recipe.
Q. Where did your blog name, Union Jack Creative, come from?
A: The blog shares the name of the design firm I run with my partner, Jack. When we got started, Jack had been playing around with the Union Jack flag in his work, and we liked the way “Union Jack” reflected on our combining our individual skills to form the business, and of course also included his name. “Creative” is an umbrella to cover all of the projects we take on – web and print design, primarily, but also calligraphy, event planning, woodworking, craft, cooking and the occasional slate coaster.
For answers to other burning questions, see Maria’s full post at Thread.The.Needle!
image credit: Union Jack Creative
For Friday, we leave you with this.
By way of brief explanation (for truly, in some things, less is more) – the title of the original assignment was “My. Touchy Face,” the object of which was to develop a character in flash whose features would animate into five emotions when a user hovered over a labelled button.
Jack took this assignment to the extreme.
Have a lovely weekend!
illustration credit: Brandon Bird
We’ve recently entered the early stages of a few big projects, but it’s been quite some time since we shared something we’ve finished.
The site for Design Make is one that we wrapped up earlier this summer. Michelle already had a mockup of her design; we stepped in to translate her work into a custom WordPress theme, and move the full site to its new home at design-make.net.
This weekend, the sun shone – and it was warm. Very warm.
(A quick aside: I’ve only recently come to realize that many people don’t understand why this turn of phrase makes sense. This, to me, is strange, because it always seemed so obvious. Interesting.)
Jack was out and about for a work conference on Saturday, and a class walking tour on Sunday; I occupied myself with a long run and a lettering project.
We’ve spent many of our weekends lately in transit, camping, celebrating and otherwise not being available, and it’s taken a toll. This weekend, though it broke our hearts to turn down a canoe trip, we decided it was time for a break, and a chance to catch up on some tasks that had been neglected.
Item the First: test out the cursive typewriter we’ve been storing for Jack’s sister. (Hardship, really.)
Our weekend involved a lot of biking, a lot of visiting friends and a lot of web work. We headed to Rockport, MA by bike on Saturday, as one last training ride ahead of our 65-mile endeavor to support Bikes Not Bombs next weekend. Sunday saw us settled in (despite more sunshine) to put finishing touches on an outstanding site redesign project, and also making up this snazzy flier for our Bike-a-Thon bid.
How was your weekend?
April has come and gone, and we’re still trying to keep up. What have we been up to?
Per usual, plenty.