Case of The 27's

While I've been gone, I also designed marketing material for the Monocle Eclectic Dance Company's show, Case of the 27's, which explores the lives and careers of artists who have passed away at the age of 27. Katie was also amazing to work with, and it was really wonderful coming up with a visual marketing aesthetic that worked so well for her and the performance.

Chicago Repertory Ballet logos

Wow, freelance certainly swept me away for a moment!
I've recently completed two of the freelance projects I've been working on this spring; one of them being this logo design for Chicago Repertory Ballet. It was a joy working with Wade on this project, and I'm happy to share my work with both him and his future audiences.

Scary Facts about Space start again next week!

Hello all!

I had to run out of town for a funeral last week, unfortunately, and thus wasn’t able to make a scary space fact. Expect two next Wednesday!
I've also got some exciting new projects that I just finished up for clients, so stay tuned for a peek!

Scary Facts About Space: Armstrong's Limit

The absence of air pressure does very, very scary things to the human body.
There will be one more fact that accompanies this set about the effects of a vacuum on the human body, so stay tuned!

-L

Scary Facts about Space will be posted tomorrow!

Sorry for the delay!

-L

Scary Facts about Space: Pluto

Filed under: "it's pretty much impossible to find a good picture of Pluto."

Instead of being the lonely outcast (as some woot shirts will have you believe), I imagine Pluto as being the wild child of our solar-system family. The sun will try to neatly corral its other children into nice concentric, parallel orbits, and then here comes Pluto pulling this nonsense. That isn't the behavior of an outcast, it’s of a rebel who Does What It Wants™. (Or a stray from the Kuiper Belt, but whatever. I’m not going to get into that right now and ruin this beautiful character I have in my mind).

...I’m going to draw this next week.

It's back!

www.ayodesigns.com is now live (again)! Thank goodness!

-L

Calamity!

Ayojoy.com is down! It was the unfortunate victim of what I've come to learn is the Redemption Period for websites, which is pretty bad. One lesson learned the hard way, I suppose.

In a twist of serendipitous fate, however, the domain name I originally wanted for my portfolio was available! Make sure to check www.ayodesigns.com in the coming days!

In other news, I've decided that the best course of action to curb my compulsion to fill this blog with nothing but horrifying space facts was to limit them to one post a week. Wednesday will be the day I dedicate to ruining the public's preconceived notions about how safe and totally not dangerous space is, so be ready!

Some freelance projects I've been working on will be posted here in the coming weeks, as well, so stay tuned for updates. Thanks for following, and sorry about the site downtime.

-L

Scary Facts about space, part II

Here are two more scary space facts, in a set!
Jupiter is, as they say on the streets, "cray".


-L

Scary facts about space

I decided to update my facebook cover photo today, but didn't want it to be just a photograph of myself at some point in my life. Instead, I turned to one of my most consistent sources of inspiration: space!

I'm planning on making a few more of these, detailing the scientific inhospitability* of some of the most beautiful images the Hubble Space Telescope has graced us with. Spreading beauty and knowledge simultaneously is the best part about design!



*: There is, evidently, no noun form of 'inhospitable'. I checked and everything.

-L