Melissa Hassey » Design

Another Artist Portrait

melissa — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:34:37 +0000

I feel very privileged to have so many wonderful artist friends. They continue to amaze me. From visual arts, to music to poems and literature…. these are the people that continue to inspire and motivate me.

That said, I graduated from Tyler School of Art with a great artist and friend, Mike Munter. Among other talents, he is a print maker and designer. You can check out lots of samples of his work on his website:: IARTMIKEMUNTER.COM. Mike is being interviewed for a magazine and needed some portraits to go along with it. Since I recently photographed his brother, Jason, (see blog HERE) in return for some art work, this was just another great barter session. I have a beautiful poster he made of a girl blowing what looks like bubbles… but then turns into jelly fish. I love it. Now, I just need some great framer friends to custom frame it for me. : )

So…. I had been anxious for the opportunity to photograph at the Higher Grounds Cafe in Northern Liberties (the one that I mentioned in the blog just before this one: here). We met there and then wandered aimlessly around Northern Liberties. It was a beautiful day outside (so rare these days!) and we took advantage of that.

Wow, this short blog post sure has a lot of web links…….. Anyway, here are some pics!

Mike sitting in “the grand chair”:

shot through one of the chairs….

Another great thing about coffee shops….. if you forget a book or magazine there are always board games or…. Simpsons trivia…… It turns out that I am not nearly as good as I thought I was. I am sticking with Seinfeld trivia next time…… I am the master of that domain.

yes, this is one of the locations of my wedding photos….. okay, another link…. see them HERE.

new event business cards!

melissa — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:30:48 +0000

yay! minor news, but i am excited nonetheless…. i finally got around to designing some new event business cards. look for them in your local coffee shop!!

here is the final design. the cards are 2 sided…. so one side is my logo the other is the photograph and information.

Offbeat Bride!

melissa — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:08:40 +0000

Firstly, for the women out there that are planning your wedding in a slightly nontraditional or “offbeat” way, the Offbeat Bride Tribe is a fantastic forum to get inspired and socialize with other brides to be!

That said, i was delighted to see that a post that i created in regards to our wedding invitations was featured on the offbeat bride.
here is a link to view the post!
ewok wedding invitations!

i have since received quite a few requests to custom design invitations….. and the answer is most definitely, yes! if you are interested in having me design your “offbeat” invites, just email me and we can discuss.

our wedding invitation!!

melissa — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:47:25 +0000

so…. a while back carl created a fantastic stop motion video, EWOK!. it includes, of course, ewoks, as well as other creatures and knick-knacks found around our house. anyway, i knew that i wanted to take some photos of them holding our wedding rings! i mentioned to carl that we could use them on our wedding invitations. he looked at me strangely and didn’t seem very into the idea. so…. i continued on and took some photos of the ewoks in our backyard. i loaded the pics and showed them to him. he was delighted and wanted to use them! woohoo! so…. thats how the ewok invite came to be. so, yes, we are geeks…. but we are not necessarily star wars geeks. well, maybe carl is a bit more than i. i actually only really remember the ewoks! haha.

anyway the invites took me a while to design as i wanted to convey both our sense of humor as well as a bit of romance…. oh, and some information about the wedding of course! ha!

anyway, here are just some of the ewok photos::

and, of course,…. our invitations…. they are tri-fold invitations. i added the black lines to show where the folds are….