Old School Construction
oscmi.com

We worked with Old School Construction to develop a web site that reflects a modern sensibility as well as its focus on traditional craftsmanship. Photography by Leisa Thompson captures warmth and light, and the way Old School's completed projects improve people's everyday lives!

Leslie Science and Nature Center Web Site

The Leslie Science and Nature Center is a well-loved gem of the Ann Arbor area, providing the community chances to connect with and learn about our natural environment. We helped the organization convey the sense of joyfulness that they bring to educating adults and kids. Behind the scenes, the site is flexible and easy to work with, allowing the center to update information on the fly.

Bloom Into Parenting, Naturally

Lisa Paul teaches natural childbirth, breastfeeding and parenting classes in the Nashville area. The logo is clean and forward-looking— no hippie aesthetic here! The ideas that guide this birth educator are fresh and relevant for today's modern parents.

SOS Community Services
soscs.org

SOS Community Services provides vital programs that help homeless families in Washtenaw County. The existing SOS web site was outdated, hard to manage, and had grown unorganized over time. Even worse, it didn't reflect the heart and professionalism that had helped the non-profit organization to grow and endure. We delivered this site just in time for their 40th birthday. Happy birthday SOS—we hope that the new site will inspire people to learn more, donate and volunteer!

Brochure, Notecard, Business Card
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor Research Collaborative for Health came to us with a new logo and a new name—but they still needed to develop a visual identity for their organization. We worked with them to develop this warm, humanistic, and approachable identity that emphasized the end result of their work with medical data and statistics—improving care for organ transplant patients.

Business Cards
Dr. Janet Greenhut

Dr. Greenhut needed cards that reflected her approach to patient care as she established her new private practice. We designed these cards to express calm, care and growth. The cards were silkscreened on 100% recycled, Michigan-made paper.

Holiday Cards
You Make The Holidays a Little Less Depressing, illustration by Linette Lao
I Don't Believe in You Either, illustration by Mark Maynard and Linette Lao
I Believe in You Too, illustration by Mark Maynard and Linette Lao (not shown)

Whether you are naughty or nice, or just blue around the holidays, we have designed a card for you. These will be for sale soon—just if you'd like to be notified when they are ready!

G.O. Williams Web Site
gowilliams.net

The compelling personality of founder Guy Williams is at the heart of this business. We designed a web site and logo for gowilliams.net that is smart, modern, and professional— just like he and his team are.

Logo, Brochures and Software Packaging
VantagePoint

Invisible Engines helped this startup company get off the ground running. We worked with them to create a visual identity that would help them reach their designer, architect and city planner clients—and then created everything they needed, from CD labels, business cards, brochures, software packaging and manuals.

Screenprinted Scarf

Produced in collaboration with VG Kids and a local organic clothing company, this scarf was sold nationally in Whole Foods and small boutiques.

Summers-Knoll School Web Site
summers-knoll.org

Summers-Knoll, a small independent school in Ann Arbor, needed a site that reflected its intimacy, warmth, and the richness of its academic philosophy. A customized, easy-to-learn and beautifully simple interface allows the school to update content easily. We're pleased to announce that within two months of the site launch, page views were up by 473.4%, pages viewed per visit rose by 255.5%, the bounce rate dropped by 84.8%, and visitor's time on site rose by 323%.

Logo and Card Design
OmniGlyph

These cards provide the client with a way to quickly convey that he cares about the details of communication. The crisp and clean, modern design is friendly and playful as well. Sharp work... fast, indeed.

Rules For Baby, A Zine
written and illustrated by Mark Maynard and Linette Lao

Does your baby know the rules of the household? This guidebook that can be issued to infants by new parents. (Or it can be issued to new parents by friends as a gift.) Xeroxed, 20 pages.

Bat Mitzvah Invitation

This invitation reflects the theme and location of the event, which was held at the Matthei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor. The young client wanted an invitation that was elegant and sophisticated, as well as eco-friendly. She was very pleased with the overall results—and that we were able to use 100% recycled, Michigan-made paper that was produced with hydro-powered energy.

Packaging for Art Kits
FLY Children’s Art Center

Roll, sway, growl! We’re proud to support FLY Children's Art Center's mission of helping grow creativity and community in Ypsilanti and beyond. Like FLY, we believe that creativity and problem-solving are essential skills for our next generation of awesome, engaged citizens. These kits are full of fun (and recycled/repurposed) supplies to make marble chutes, invented animals and mobiles. They were developed as a fundraiser, and as part of an innovative program that provides children in need with the tools to create, explore, and develop their vision. We're pleased to see the kits in the hands of kids across Washtenaw county. And it delights us to see them sold in several museum gift shops too! Silkscreened on recycled cardboard by VG Kids.

Foo Bar Coffee Shop Signage
University of Michigan Computer Science Engineering Building, North Campus.

"Foo Bar" was the winning entry in a student competition to name the coffee shop in the new Computer Science Engineering Building. (The words "Foo" and "Bar" are used as placeholder names in computer programming or documentation. There's another play on words happening here, the slang acronym "FUBAR"—we'll let you look that up.) The sign evokes the old days of computer punch cards, and uses the computer's default font Courier. We designed it; the amazing Grafaktri built it.

Tapestry: Annual Report
Alternatives for Girls

Alternatives for Girls supports and provides services to homeless and high-risk girls and young women. Their annual report theme of tapestry relates to the idea of community, diversity, and working together to create rich lives full of potential. We designed this report to have the high impact and tactile appeal of a felted woven paper cover— but the 2-color inside pages fit nicely into their budget.

VIP Reception Invitation
Southwest Solutions, Southwest Detroit

The reception celebrated the renovation of three historic properties in Southwest Detroit. The Arts and Crafts era apartment buildings had been restored to their former glory— bringing affordable, energy-efficient, beautiful residential space, and transforming the neighborhood in the process. Because the client was very proud of the history and craftsmanship of the building, we continued this in the invitation: using hand-screenprinted wrapping paper as a cover, and organizing a small group of volunteers to do a simple thread book-binding technique instead of a staple.

Letterhead and Business Card
Creative Change Educational Solutions

Creative Change's logo is about forward momentum and change, positive energy and strength— all ideals that drive this non-profit educational organization. The new identity system and materials have worked well to show their professionalism and expertise as they reach new heights of success.

Semester In Detroit Brochure
University of Michigan

Live, learn, work, engage. Students in the Semester in Detroit program spend a semester in Detroit doing all of those things, and more. We developed this brochure to capture the rich, urban experience of living in the city.

Brochure
Creative Change Educational Solutions

This brochure was just part of a major overhaul of the Creative Change brand. We helped the nonprofit educational organization develop a creative vision that supported their strategic plans for growth. From developing a logo, website, flyers, to trade show displays, we have helped them stay consistent and professional in all of their communications.

Logo and Letterhead
GrantWorks Detroit

The logo for GrantWorks Detroit needed to show the strengths of the organization— that they are smart, professional and able to produce grants that work, powerfully!

Life On the Bean, brochure/map/hand-drawn illustrations
Bean Tiffin Watershed Coalition

This pocket-sized brochure was designed to educate the community, from schoolchildren to senior citizens, about diverse species that can be found on/in the Bean Tiffin Watershed. As pollution from nearby factory farms spreads, the watershed is changing drastically— and it needs active, informed, citizens to protect it. The reverse of the brochure is a map, showing the connections between the watershed and the Great Lakes.

Slippery Shanty zine, issues 1 and 2
Linette Lao and Mark Maynard

In 1886, the postmaster of Ypsilanti compiled a long list of all the various misspellings of the town's name. From Hipsilantia to Gplikslinty to the best one of all, Slippery Shanty. Slippery Shanty, the zine, is a publication about the history and future of Ypsilanti, merging images from the historic archives with contemporary narratives.