Edgewood Consulting & Services

If you are looking for a personal guide to the most amazing views in the Hudson Valley, look to EDGEWOOD CONSULTING & SERVICES. Ekaterini's services extend to both the casual hiker & the larger business community. The photo above, taken by Ekaterini, is one of the many locations she can guide you or your group to!

Expressing both the "business" and "casual" side to Edgewood Consulting & Services, is what made this logo design a challenge; sophistication and approachability. Here are a few of the ideas I came up with. My fave is #2.

The votes came in and my client went with logo #4. We decided on adding the rough oval to gear more toward the individual or family hikers. The logo without the oval will be used on stationary and business correspondence.

Organic Cotton Bags from "Green Promotional Items"

I ordered some great Organic Cotton bags from GREEN PROMOTIONAL ITEMS.
They worked great for this little tote I designed.
The prices are very reasonable, and go down as the quantity goes up.
The great thing is that you can pay a small fee of $15.00 to NOT meet a large "minium order". I needed 20 bags, I paid $2.28 per bag (yes, that's for organic cotton!), plus the $15.00. I still thought it was a great deal.

Check out Green Promotional Items, they have a lot of great looking products & customer service was great!

Apple Embroidery logo

I wanted to help my cousin with designing a logo for her home-based Embroidery business. She was pretty sure she wanted an apple image, but she wanted it to convey a "home-crafty business" feel. She wanted a one sided business card, but I gave her an option for 2 sided also. Here is what I whipped up......(she chose to go with the top option).

Menu Headers for "A Natural Chef"

Cathy A. Vogt owner and executive director of "A Natural Chef " is a whole foods chef, educator and certified health counselor. A Natural Chef's mission is to empower and positively change the lives and health of all clients.

For her workshops, Cathy needed ideas for a menu header and layout, plus signage for her work table. Here is the menu layout and headers for the menus she will be passing out at her workshops.

I thought it would be appropriate to have a different header to reflect each of the seasons.

To join Cathy Vogt, A Natural Chef, in the lovely farm house kitchen and learn how to prepare foods that are sustainable and in season, support your health, and support local farming, visit Brook Farm Project or A Natural Chef to sign up for a class.  Bon appetit!

Photos From my new Canon 7D

Her are some of the first pics from my new camera. I recently purchased the Canon 7D and I couldn't be happier! This is the best camera! It has many features (including hd video) and it is very user friendly. These pictures are all unaltered and as shot from my camera. Maybe they could use some tweaking, but I thought "not so bad" for a medium res jpeg without editing. I'd highly recommend this camera.

Invitation Design

I'm a little slow on getting this post up. Here is an invitation that I designed for The Waldorf School of Orange County in CA, back in the fall.

This was a community event & fundraiser for the non-profit private school. The event took place at Strawberry Farms Golf Course in a big red renovated barn. It was the perfect rustic-contemporary place for this fall soiree!

Biodegradable Ribbon

I am very excited to report that on a recent trip to The Container Store I found Biodegradable ribbons. I originally went with the intention of checking-out what recycled wrapping paper they had, but was delighted to find these ribbons. The company, Charles Clay & Sons unfortunately is in England & only takes wholesale orders, but if your in the neighborhood of a Container Store, you can pick them up there.

This is the first time I've seen a biodegradable ribbon that actually looks and feels like a thick satin ribbon. I'll be testing it out soon so check back to see how it looks in action. Plus, I will test how it irons-out. A good way to re-use ribbons is to iron them first, they often look brand-new.