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Scarf + Necklace = Elegance

What a honor! A fellow designer not only loved my green agapanthus scarf, but also crafted a necklace to go with it!

A extraordinarily talented illustrator and designer, Karyn Lewis  started creating jewelry in the past couple of years. When I heard what she was planning, I couldn’t wait to see what she was [...]

Graphic Design: More Than a Pretty Face

Last week, I helped a friend who was deliberating over some new labels designs for his product. While he just asked me to use my designer’s eye to tell him which one I liked the best, I came up with some questions for him to ponder.

I thought I’d share a few of these [...]

I’m the Martha Stewart Doer of the Week!

This week I had the honor of being selected the Doer of the Week at Martha Stewart’s “Dreamers into Doers” website.  I talked about how and where I work, and how I got here, and what inspires my design approach. Above is only a snippet — but you can read the whole thing here.

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Small Business Saturday 11/27 – Supporting Entreprenuers When Holiday Shopping

This interview of me, in recognition of Small Business Saturday, and to illustrate one person behind a small business, is gratefully reprinted from MommyBlogExpert:

Thanks to American Express for sponsoring my writing today about small businesses.  American Express is presenting Small Business Saturday, a way to honor the local merchants who are the backbone [...]

Part 3: How to Sell Offline – Must Haves and Must Dos

In Part Two I mentioned signage and branding, but your display can take this much further to attract customers and make them want to hang around. Here’s some food for thought to get your creative juices going. See if any of these work for you. (Did you miss Part 1? It’s here.)

 

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I’m Today’s Featured Artist at ImageKind

This was an unexpected but lovely thing to wake up to.  I am one of the Featured Artists of the Day at ImageKind!  ImageKind is a site for buying artwork by a huge range of artists, from  masters to small independent designers.

I am sharing the spotlight with professional Canadian photographer Chris Gallow, whose [...]

It’s New! It’s Fresh! It’s My Design Studio Website!

Not everyone who comes to the Rotem Gear shop knows that I am also a graphic designer beyond t-shirts and artisan scarves.  In fact, I have done freelance design work for universities and colleges, governments, media companies, architecture studios, and have the pleasure these days of doing ad design for the Edible Communities network [...]

Art Trip

My friend Cheri Lasher-Sandhu never met a surface she didn’t like.

When I knew her in Israel, she’d paint anything — cabinets, furniture, pillows, clothing, and the unfinished Arab-style pottery plates and water jugs sold all around Israel. If memory serves, she painted part of the hallway leading to her apartment. She was compelled [...]

Making a Logo, Not a “No Go”

I thought I’d share  an example of a design process for a corporate logo I did a few years ago for Amritt Ventures. I began with a sit-down meeting (over a yummy Indian lunch) with the head of the company, Gunjan Bagla, who was just launching his business at the time.  In between dowsing [...]