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aperture training DVD design

angelique — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:00:20 +0000

Way back when I didn’t have a baby I worked on a design project that was loads of fun. But then, I never blogged it because I didn’t have a chance to sit down and actually put the post up. For that I am sorry. I worked with Sara over the course of a couple months to take her Aperture Training DVDs from start to finish. We started working on this for WPPI 2010 when she first started promoting the DVDs that were being prepped! It seems like forever ago now.

What’s really awesome is that now Aperture is even more accessible. You can download it right form the App Store on your Mac and for only $79.99. Super cheap right? Despite my complete Apple fandom, I am a Lightroom user though, I can’t deny it. Maybe someday I will make the switch. I started with Aperture and we broke up since Lightroom was easier for me when Aperture was in its infancy. It has come leaps and bounds, and if you want training on it, Sara’s DVD’s are definitely the way to go! Oh, you want your training instantly? You can download everything too! I made the adorable buttons on her store site as well. Check it out.

happy new year!

angelique — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:00:11 +0000

One of my Christmas gifts this year from my most awesome husband was the collection of images from a shoot we did earlier in the year with Nicole Polk. With all the crazy blizzards we had in the Philadelphia area in February of 2010, we had offered to be models for her in the snow. These images seemed like the perfect thing for our Christmas card. I stuck with matte paper this year since I have had some sort of odd draw to it lately. Especially with a white card it just seems brighter.

Ok, enough with the cuddling… How could we be surrounded by all that snow and not have a snowball fight? We are so mature!

Here’s hoping you had a wonderful holiday season filled with your loved ones! And to a wonderful 2011!!

where i’ve “bean”

angelique — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:00:13 +0000

I know, I know… It has been absolutely forever since I have last posted. I have been designing, and have plenty to post up here in the near future. In the past 6 months a lot has changed. I now work with the Queensberry Photojunction team helping out with Photojunction support. (I did say I was a nerd…). We moved! We are now homeowners. And with that comes many trips to Lowe’s, Best Buy, etc. A broken dishwasher meant my blogging and internet time was taken up by hand washing dishes. Before we moved, we were in the throws of finding a place to move to and all the fun that goes along with that.

The main thing keeping me busy, however, has been a personal project. If you follow me on Twitter, you already know. In about two months, I expect my internet presence to slow down even more for a little while… Of course, being as controlling as I am, my mom knew I would want to be involved in my shower invitation :) Since we couldn’t find exactly what we wanted, I had to make it :) ProDPI did a fantastic job with the printing!

I absolutely LOVE argyle! Unfortunately, the people who design things for babies, don’t think argyle is cute unless it is in pastels (not a huge fan). So the baby shower ended up being the end of the road for my argyle decor (for now). But it was only the beginning for the love of monkeys!

Of course I needed perfectly coordinated thank you cards. This time around there was a request for an elephant…

A bit more argyle, and possibly one of our favorite pictures of Bean so far on the back :)

The best part of all of this for me was the Christmas present I received from ProDPI. They requested the thank you card as a sample. Yay!

We are sticking with jungle animals and since I couldn’t find the argyle that I wanted, I switched to the next best pattern… polka dots. More to come, I am sure…

New Save The Date

angelique — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:00:24 +0000

One of my favorite things on the fridge right now is the save the date that just came from Laura & Steve. I saw one of my favorite things, because I can’t deny… We have a lot of cute stuff on there. I might also be biased because I helped Laura put these together. We wanted to tie it to their invites, but also make it fun! People need to know that they are to prepare for a PAR-TAY.

Other awesome-ness about the save the date… Adios & Ciao Ciao are their cake toppers. And I took the photo

Also – I know, I know, I haven’t posted in FOREVER! I am sorry! New things are in the works and I am keeping busy, busy, busy! But I’ll be trying to get back into the swing of things slowly, but surely.

new website is ready!

angelique — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:59:34 +0000

With the holidays coming, I wanted to make sure the new site was up before life got crazy. It is my birthday present to myself! Check out the all new www.piqulette.com! Let me know what you think!!

new site coming soon!

angelique — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:55:37 +0000

I have been working hard on rebuilding my website and wanted to share a sneak peak of the results! I am really excited about the album layout slideshow made possible by the incredible Show It! They are also the incredible company that I have to thank for my album design order form. While I had to build the form myself, Show It takes care of all the hard stuff form me (coding)!

starlet excitement

angelique — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:26:08 +0000

I cannot wait to post more about this book soon! I had a great time working on it and was very excited when the cover transformed from a typical album cover with a photo….to this:

Our inspiration was vintage suitcases with travel stickers on them. It was so much fun to see all the different stickers people have saved over the years and collections of stickers and fonts out there. The Starlet Sessions by Kamila Harris are vintage inspired fashion shoots. She hosts them in her studio in Philadelphia and on location in Wildwood, NJ. I had a ton of fun designing each sticker using some of the favorites from the many Starlet Sessions. And even more fun was modifying Kamila’s logo so that she now has a Starlet Sessions logo. I love fonts, especially deco-inspired anything, so this was a treat of a project!

More from the book to come soon! There is a Starlet Session scheduled for October 31 in Kamila’s Chestnut Hill Studio. Check it out!

have you seen Kamila’s new site?

angelique — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:53:41 +0000

She might possibly be my favorite photographer to work with. But who doesn’t love working with people that are awesome? I had to wait to post this because she was getting so many hits to her new site it was shutting down! She is a popular girl….what can I say?

I was so excited when Kamila asked for my help with her new website design. I am definitely not a web designer…flash, java, all that fancy stuff….woooooo. My brain doesn’t work that way. But a splash screen to tell her clients immediately that she is great, and what kind of awesome she is….that I can do

Kamila LOVES older cameras and experimenting with film. I wanted to portray what makes her different immediately, but also show the beautiful style she brings out in each image she takes.

She is doing some great stuff and getting ready to move into a new studio. So check out her blog to keep up on all the crazy happenings!

my latest distraction

angelique — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:45:20 +0000

As you may know, I occasionally post to the entertainment blog My Latest Distraction. It is a fun site. A collaboration of friends. A place to talk about anything on your mind. Although the boys may not admit it, we love pop culture. They love some parts, I love the others. Mostly, it ends up as comics and movies. But there is always some fun to be had with food, television, current events, and life in general. A recent comic post by my husband led to a fun project for me that I wanted to share. If you want to read about the covers and understand them, check out the post.

Or just enjoy some of my latest distraction…

break even

angelique — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:05:11 +0000

Break Even is a micro-label based out of Philadelphia, Pa. It was founded in 1997 by my husband! When he went back to school, BE had to calm down a bit. But recently it has been going strong with quite a few recent releases.

Please take a minute to check out the Break Even site. Or better yet, add yourself as a fan on the Facebook page. There can’t be a custom URL through Facebook until Break Even has 1000 fans…so tell all your friends!!! And please let us know what you think of the new BE look!

Is there anyone else out there using a Facebook page to promote your business? I would love to hear your thoughts on this!