News from the Vonster by Catherine Morley, Creative Latitude Management Team

Project: Logo Design/Illustration
Client: "Chef's Night Out" Marion — Polk County Food Bank
Notes: Each year the Chef's from over 40 of the best local restaurants gather in one location to serve their cuisine. Admission for this feast allows the diner to enjoy a wide variety of food and benefit charity. All ticket proceeds goto funding the local area food bank.


Client: Volcanic Roasters
Project: Logo Development and Label Design — Parent Company Kona Cloud Coffee Estates (A previous project)
Notes: It doesn't take a brain surgeon to open your own coffee-based business. Or does it? Volcanic Roasters is a new business venture started by the head of a neurosurgery department at a large hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It all started five years ago when he and his wife decided to pursue their passion for coffee as a side business and purchased a coffee plantation in Kona Hawaii. This year was their first harvest from "Kona Cloud Estates" and will be one of many types of beans roasted at their Arkansas based Roasting facility called "Volcanic Roasters."

To save them money I designed a label that allows them the flexibility to stamp the flavor in the white space provided instead of printing a separate label for each blend. Since their roots are firmly set in Hawaiian soil, I tried to give the logo a definite island theme and created a slogan that reinforced it "You'll Lava our Java."








Project: Full page Illustration for a publisher
Notes: Client requested a Jazz Band illustration, but wanted the ability to modularize each member individually to use elsewhere in printed material without having to crop in on the overall image.

Client: Gas & Oil Investor Magazine (Hart Publications)
Project: Editorial Illustration — Market to Market Accounting
(From book "Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron")
Notes: The Art Director on this project was great to work with. He faxed me the story and basically said "Go Nuts." Well, as nuts as an article on market-to-market accounting will allow, that is. After reading the article three times my brain began to turn to jello® and leak out my ears. I guess that's why they never make action movies about accountants. One thing the article did show me is the guys at Enron were major league weasels selling their shareholders financial snake oil. And that's when the idea hit me. I'd handle this illustration like an advertisement. Usually I am not allowed to copywrite in my illustrations (Editors are anal that way), but on this one I cut loose with some witty verbage and even got to use my own custom designed font "Spaz-o-rific" in the final.


Client: Self-Promo
Project: Mr. Cubistic — Pixelpalooza 2003 Icon Design Submission (www.iconfactory.com) Notes: Enter the 2 dimensional world of "Mr. Cubistic." A vertex filled, brightly colored existence where he goes about each day living on your Mac OSX desktop. That's right, you'll need to be running OSX on a Mac because Mr. Cubistic refuses to populate the environment of a PC. When questioned about this he said "Dude I don't do DULL!"


If you'd like to give Mr. Cubistic a home on your OSX desktop then mouse on over to his neighborhood and download the "Mr. Cubistic" icon set by clicking here:
http://www.glitschka.com/downloads/Mr.Cubistic.sit