J Sherman Studios LLC

What a fun day! We trecked all the way to Charlestown this morning to attend a special event that  Alphagraphics Boston hosted for their clients. We got to hang out with Kelly Mastracchio (our beloved alumna who has recently moved back to Boston), with dear friend Abby Rischin, the founder of Step Into Art, and we got to see some really lovely clients of ours from Root Cause and Kor Floral.

We learned all sorts of fun new marketing things (QR codes galore), meet members of the U.S. Sailing Team, see a real life Olympic gold medal (and medalist), AND Jenny managed to win the iPad!

Was it worth being away from the Studio all morning? Just ask Jenny.

 

 Thank you Alphagraphics Boston. 

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Why haven't we been blogging much lately?  An image tells a thousand words, right? Well check these photos out...

 

We have wanted to blog, but we have a lot going on right now with our physical workspace.

For the past three weeks we have been temporarily set up on card tables downstairs with most of the office packed up in boxes and scattered all over the house. Why? Because sweating through the summer and shivering through the winter just isn't fun. We had air conditioning installed and insulation blown in. Now the Studio looks like it has a case of the chicken pox: it is polka dotted with holes that are punched every foot for the insulation. And we have these very lovely silver air conditioning tubes in the back where we plan on creating a wall and then a floor to ceiling bookcase to cover up. 

We hopefully move back in this weekend after we fill in and patch the holes, then repaint the whole Studio. Then the fun begins with trying to figure out where to unpack things! Never a dull moment in this small business (and we admit to feeling jealous of larger businesses who contract out for support on stuff like this as we lug boxes all over the place). But we are very excited for a more climate controlled workspace.

 

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We love our clients and we love their projects. We always look for awesome client relationships over specific projects. But sometimes we crave funny, very particular projects. One day we might wish to design a wedding invitation for an Indian wedding, or another day we want to design packaging for a gourmet box of truffles.

Today we are in the mood for menu designs. Today we wish a creative, design-oriented, visionary restaurant would knock on our door and hire us for everything from the signage to the coasters... and of course the menus! Where is this urge coming from? Seems to be something in the air.

A few weeks ago Julie visited Chez Panisse cafe in Berkley, CA and drooled over the creative menu designs that paper the walls: beautiful woodblock prints of turnips, garlic scapes, and so much more. Then we discovered the art of the menu blog where there are many menu designs to drool over. Finally, Miriam stumbled upon and purchased the new Taschen book: Menu Design in America which has pages and pages of inspiring and often amusing vintage menus.

What do we love about menus? Function and storytelling all in one! Typography, visual heirarchy, alignment, organization... and mood, feeling, inspiration.

Please come bring us a yummy creative menu project! We don't care what cuisine it is, as long as the design can be fabulous and fun.

Oh, and Jenny is off eating every flavor of gelato possible in Italy, thus the inspiration for our image today.

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