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

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

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]

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)

Branding for a Construction Company

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It's for a woman owned and managed development/construction company...I think it speaks professional, yet sassy much like the owner ; )

Samples for Julie and Robert

Julie and Robert are getting married at the Brooklyn Bridge Park and will follow up with the ever famous Bubby's of Brooklyn as their Reception venue. BTW Bubbys has fantabulous comfort foods like Mac n Cheese and the biscuits are to die for....the pies ain't so bad either ; )

Now, I have made many Bridge invites, but it is safe to agree that this set is one of the most gorgeous sets I have done. The paper is fashioned after aged/antique paper...

When Julie saw the pieces for the first time she emailed me, "Wow...Very Beautiful!!".

Here's a look at the set. The soon to be Bride and Groom used Cream, Merlot, and chocolate colors for their Fall wedding.

Images of the sample.

Closed with a simple band:

Closed with coordinated bands:

Open to show panels and rsvp card:

I love how the paper became leathery after the printing process:

The best is yet to come with this set. Stay tuned for map inserts!

brown gatefold bridge invite

Virtual Sample...Yay!

Swinging Sixties Birthday Party Invite

Liz from New Jersey asked me to put these together for her mom's surprise party. Mom will be 60 on the big day!! These are called Enfolds and were fun to work with. they fit a standard A2 (1/4 letter sized paper) envelope. I had to retouch the photo that Liz gave to me...those photos will come later. But if you notice in the picture Liz's Mom, Ginny, has a cat on her lap. Really it was that murky that I didn't even notice the cat until i began cleaning the image up!

Corporate Holiday Invites

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