Bike-In Movie Night: 
Whitefish Montana
Wheelie Creative has partnered up with Northwest Artist Syndicate to throw Bike-In Movie Night every week after the Farmer's Market.

WHO: You and your bike. (Or rollerblades. Or feet.)

WHAT: Sit outside and watch a 
PG-Movie. Family Friendly.

WHEN: Tuesday nights, show starts at dusk. (Probably 9pm)

WHERE: Piggyback BBQ outside.

WHY: Do you like fun? Do you like bikes? Do you like movies? Us too. That's why!

To hear us talking about Bike-In Movie Night on Big Valley Radio, click on this link and select June 19, 2014: http://www.bigvalleyradio.com/OurShows/HappyHour.aspx

When my twin sister and I were 25, we took a self portrait every single day for a year. Then the files sat unedited in my computer for a long time. But here it is: check out this sweet video of my sister and I aging a year in 48 seconds:

The 2014 Wheelie Creative Design calendars are back by popular demand! 
They're heading out to my clients as a thank you for their year-round radness.

Seventy Five Years of The Little Ski Hill and Bear Basin Nordic Center in McCall, Idaho!
I absolutely love working with Payette Lakes Ski Club. Check them out at www.littleskihill.org
This logo stays true to the logo and branding Wheelie Creative made for them last year, yet celebrates the milestone of 75 years by adding a very vintage look and feel. (The letters of "Little Ski Hill" and "Bear Basin Nordic Center" are the same ones I photoshopped straight off a photo of the original sign hanging on the side of the lodge in McCall.)
Love the Little Hill! Congrats on 75 Big Ones!

I've been lucky enough to land a lot of branding projects lately--everything from a chain of kidney hospitals to a dog rescue group. Branding is one of my very favorite parts of my job. I get to help companies express who they really are, and it is a blast.

Medical design is extremely different from animal design. Health industry branding is typically calm, sterile, simple, and geometric. (see announcement postcard to the left.) If you're at a doctor's office, you already have a lot on your mind, so the design should be as clear and easy to read as possible.  My personal art style is usually bright, often humorous, and almost always playful, so branding a medical company is actually a very enjoyable challenge to contain myself, reel the ideas in, and keep the design simple. Branding is all about portraying the essence of the company, and as a designer, I feel quite lucky to get to listen hard, explore the options, and help companies visually show the world who they are and what they're all about.

On the opposite end of the design spectrum from medical branding, and in the same day at work, I am creating marketing materials for a new dog rescue group out of Fort Collins, Colorado. They want a strong tie to Colorado flag colors-- blue, yellow, red, and white-- and a fun, cartoony dog logo. Animal marketing lends itself quite well to photographs, casual typography, and vivid colors.

Wheelie Creative Design LLC is hand-painting scenes of Horsetooth Rock onto trucker hats. Hats are ten bucks, and the proceeds go to victims who lost their homes to the High Park Fire that is raging around Fort Collins right now.  If you would like a hat, you can purchase one HERE

After months of collaboration with Colorado climber and writer, Luke Mehall, we created and launched his brain child-- The Climbing Zine.com  The Climbing Zine is an online and print publication featuring high-quality literature from climbers about the pursuit of passion. It is a great project, and I am psyched to be part of it. Click on the photo above to visit The Climbing Zine website.
I love a good story, and there are plenty of them to be found in The Climbing Zine. Luke Mehall, you rock!

I have to admit-- the new facebook timeline is pretty visually confusing.... Your eyes have to fall down the page like a game of ping pong, bouncing between columns until your head hurts. Hopefully the layout changes, and I do wonder why it looks the way it does. However, the very cool thing about the facelift is the new cover picture feature. It's 851 x 315 pixels of creative space-- you can do whatever you want for your business in this space. I have decided to go with a photographic montage for now.... it's fun, it's real, and I got to use a bunch of photographs that have been waiting for something more than restlessly residing in my iphoto library. Check out the new timeline cover photo for Wheelie Creative Design, and feel free to drop  a line here or the facebook page anytime!

*ALL art and content on this site belong to Wheelie Creative Design LLC. Stealing art is not okay.*