Out With The Old: Train Ticket/Railroad Birthday Invitations

Here is a birthday invitation i did for a client that had commissioned me to work on several projects for them: 

1- their wedding invitations, 2- their wedding program, 3- their wedding photography, 4- their 1st family pictures, 5- their little boy's first birthday party pictures and finally, when their baby boy turned two, they asked me to create some invitations for his birthday party. the suite included a design that replicated a train ticket, the back (which i wont show here due to privacy purposes) had a picture of their son that all invitees, regardless if they could come, could save as a keepsake. and the party bags were craft bags with a folded top sealed with my tag. 

Here are the samples from that set:

I am a Brooklyn based graphic designer, and would love to help you create a train, railroad theme for your little ones party. reach out to me on my site - http://bit.ly/1k21V3C

Out with the Old:: Brooklyn Bridge Invitation Set up!

So i went through an old drive of mine and found this picture from one of my former clients. She set up the Brooklyn bridge invitation design i made at the welcome table at their reception. Nice! I still offer design services for weddings and you can reach me by using this link: www.michelleetwaroo.com/home/contact

48th Annual Event Campaign for PACC

Hello friends, it's been a while!

I have been so busy with my photography. In the spring I began designing some looks for PACC's 48th Annual event. For this, I created three pieces of stationary. The Save the Date, The Invite and Program for the festivities. Both images were formatted for an email blast as well. Please see the designs below and let me know if you likey!

Walking Tour Marketing Materials

The Executive Director of PACC decided to hold a walking tour in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. This was a pilot event and we decided not to go over the top with the event design and outreach. So the invitation was a simple design; Using the organization's colors, white background and simple fonts in the following styles- Script, bold, sans serif, and serif.

The event was by invite only. So when we got a nice number of people that had rsvp-ed, i decided to step it up a notch and provide folks with programs and water bottles. i think these turned out really good! I can't take credit for the layout, those i found online, but I was able to tweak the theme to reflect the colors and fonts in the invitation. Pretty cool for a small local gathering!

40 Vanderbilt Avenue Marketing Campaign

40 Vanderbilt- A low income rental building in the Navy Green development in Wallabout Brooklyn for single adults. I created a website for this development, that can be viewed at www.40vanderbilt.org. Visitors were able to download applications and renderings up until the November 2 deadline. As of today's date, we successfully captured 49,859 hits to our website with .

From September to November 2011, 10K Postcards were strategically placed, distributed in target areas and dispersed during a mass mailing to low income renters throughout the city. Cards and posters for display were sent to about 500 Community Based Organizations, Churches, Shelters/Housing Agencies and NYC Elected Officials. Here is the card design, feel free to visit the website as we will be updating it periodically.

The back was designed with space for the postmark, stamp and US Post Office "Barcode" in mind. Positioning for the 5160 Avery Label was also take into consideration. Also, if you notice, I didn't include the rental price, Although rents are well below the market and range from $492-$664/month that was an effort to get more people to apply and to drive people to our site for more information.

Cards were printed at 4over4.com

Dedication invites for the Stevens family

In June 2009, i had the opportunity to design some memorial ceremony invites for the Stevens family. Sadly, they had lost their little girl, Jacinda, in a car accident. The family contacted me again this past April. I was so ecstatic to hear they had just had twin boys! Ms Stevens wanted to go with the same layout: a 6 inch square (metallic) invite: logo on front, an insert and coordinating envelopes.

Here are some pics of the set. I dabbled with Jacinda's logo and realized. Twins=Yin Yang! Superb idea :) Continuity was an important factor in the design. I wanted to show that she is still in their hearts as they embark on a new chapter of their life as a family.

Here is the logo:

The color scheme was green, blue with yellow as the accent color:

Assembly Line!

View of the front cover.

The colors were so Summery!

Here are the rest of the logo samples, enjoy!

Earth Day Celebration in Brooklyn

Hola! Peep this postcard and icon I designed for an Earth Day Planting in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. Despite the weather, I hope you all did something for Earth Day, but if not come out to this gardening event taking place this Saturday the 30th :)

PACC's 1st Annual Bar Crawl

Check out this funky Postcard and Poster I created for a Bar Crawl my company is hosting! the event is taking place Monday November 8th and will feature 4 bars part of the FAB Alliance in Brooklyn: Bar Olivino, Hot Bird, Buka and The Fulton Grand. The event will feature entertainment by Comedian Baratunde Thurston and Music by DJ Idlemind: The Appropriate Agent. This is a non-profit event and proceeds will go toward building stronger communities in Central Brooklyn. [more info and tickets]

Pocketfolds for a Destination Wedding in Ocho Rios, Jamaica!

Rachael and Larry contacted me last year to help them create an invitation for their intimate wedding ceremony at RIU Ocho Rios. At first the couple wanted a coral monocromatic themed design engulfed with flowers. After a change from the original design, we decided on an Aqua and Cream Pocketfold with Palm tree motifs and backgrounds on all the inserts and main panels. Can you tell that Rachael was amazed when she saw them?

'Michelle, I received the invites today. Thank you so much! I love them! I appreciate all your help along the way!" Thank YOU Rachael! I hope your destination wedding was everything you'd hoped and more!

Elizabeth and Aris's Invites (pics)!

Here is a photo of the detail on the Seal and Send Invitations I created for Elizabeth and Aris's Battery Park City Wedding. I also did some of their wedding photography, so feel free to peruse those pics in my Flickr Photostream.

Inside layout (Click for detail)

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Why I havent posted in a while

1- I had a death in the family and as a result, could not work the whole month of MArch

2- I haven't had time to blog

3- If you use Blogger like I do, then you know that FTP blogs, blogs that are published/backed up on my fsob domain, will be obsolete as of May 1st. So, Ill migrate the blog over to Blogspot, and If I like it, ill stay with Blogspot, if not ill have to start a whole new blog on my new favorite, Wordpress. My photography blog is on WP and its pretty streamlined and easy to use.

I hope I haven't lost any of you and that you will continue to check in.

I have a couple of things i have been working on that need to go up as soon as i move over to Blogspot.

Thanks for reading!

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Of Elizabeth' seal and send invites. :) her colors are Merlot, Chocolate and Pistachio. The wedding will be in Battery Gardens in Battery Park City.



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Happy New Year!

Hello!

I feel like i have been posting on average every 3 months in the past year. I am being spread very thin these days but trust me, it is for a good reason; I am running two personal blogs, this one and my Michelle's Photos blog. I am the communications head for my company so i am in charge of a newsroom/blog and social network (FB/Youtube/Twitter, etc.) . And I head up a fan club for Jamel Shabazz, world renown photographer. Life is pretty hectic right now, so i don't have much time to do any personal blogging! But trust me i am not complaining. I embrace all of the attention and "calls of duty" LOL!

Here are some things ill be doing in the next month or so:

-Elizabeth and Aris' NYC themed "Seal and Sends" and ceremony programs.
-Etwaroo-Earle branding (more info to come...)
-Juanita and Larry's, champagne envelopments.
-Vendor Open House at Bubby's Brooklyn! Really excited for this : )
-An invite design based on the Ocho Rios map I made for Landra a year and a half ago.

And here is what i am doing in the next 3 months:
-Paulette and Joe's wedding photography
-Updating my website/changing the format so its more easy on the eyes...i may need an intern to help me with that one.
-More freelance photography!

I am so humbled that all of you have been so supportive of my work, and thank you for the kind messages. On top of all this I am working on some things that i cant quite reveal yet, but hope that i can let the cat out of the bag soon.

Wishing you all a prosperous new year
-Michelle

PS. the blog didn't get hacked, the google ads are legit, feel free to browse them.

Dance Party Invite

a teaser of an invite I'm working on.

Baby Shower

Over the summer i put together a surprise baby shower for a friend. the theme was sweets and treats. Id love to post more photos but I'm almost positive some of the folks that attended wouldn't want to be featured on my blog.

invite:



picture of the set up:

MJ Tribute Block Party at Prospect Park

If you were at the MJ Party at Prospect Park, i haven't put the photos up yet. I will once i have finished processing them. thanks for your patience : )

Out on Vacation

Hello

just a note to all my readers. I am on Vacation until Wednesday August 25th. So I'll answer any new inquiries once i return.

"see" u when I get back!

-M

Samples for Jacinda

link to slideshow