Quinoa Recipe Layout

Here's another layout for an ongoing personal project. This one includes my favorite way to prepare quinoa and a recipe for quinoa tabouli salad, one of my favorite summer meals. The photo is my own, as is the watercolor wash in the background of the text.

Naomi Bardoff Logo and Branding

A few months ago I started updating my branding piecemeal, and now it's pretty much complete! Here's my logo, tagline, business cards, and color scheme. My name is drawn in Illustrator while the tagline is in Footlight. Illustrations on business cards include White Horse, Owl, and an excerpt for an illustration for Louise the Spider.

Check out my redesigned and updated website to match!

City at Night

The last in my series of dark buildings with light windows (for now!). 

Created digitally using a tablet and my own scanned watercolor washes. 

The Pangolin - Illustrated Marriane Moore Poem Layout

I've put off posting this for a while because I keep thinking I'll finish the overall project that it goes with, but that doesn't seem like it will be happening any time soon. So here is a spread from a personal project I'm harboring, featuring my favorite poem by Marianne Moore, "The Pangolin."

I made the "pencil" drawings with a drawing tablet and composed the whole thing in InDesign. Here are some details of the drawings.

Nighttime Houses in the Mist

More nighttime building silhouettes in the mist. 

Created digitally using a tablet and my own scanned watercolor washes. 

Illustrated Town Hall Flyer

Here's another illustrated flyer I made for an Our Family Coalition Bay Area event. It is for the same team as the Preschool Fair (the schools team) which is part of why the font choices are so similar. 

This was a fun editorial-type challenge, to try to visually represent LGBTQ inclusion in schools without being incredibly literal. We ended up on this Warhol-esque rainbow pattern of the school chairs. 

Victorian Mansion at Night

Part of a series of pieces I've been thinking about for a while and was finally able to realize with digital tools and watercolor washes. I like the Halloween-y mood it makes, as well as the feeling of late night / early morning autumn mist. 

Stick around for a couple more illustrations in this series! 

Inclusive Preschool Fair Illustrated Flyer

I designed this illustrated flyer for an annual Our Family Coalition San Francisco event. I've posted some of my work at my day job before, but this is one of my favorite's. In the year and a half since I've worked here, we've done a lot to develop the branding guidelines, including font choices, overall colors and color schemes, primary colors for individual departments and programming, and just an overall personality.

The part that was the most fun for me was drawing these dancing kids! They're drawn and colored using a tablet. Detail below.

Crate Big Ideas Illustrated Logo Design

I made this illustrated logo and sub marks for Crate Big Ideas, upcycled wine crate pieces hand finished by Bay Area artist, Sandy Russell.

Since the products are so beautiful and handmade, we decided on a logo to match. We picked the logo to evoke the richness of wine.

The main text in the logo is a slightly modified version of the text in the font Deibi, one of my favorite fonts. The tagline is hand-lettered. All the illustrations / sub marks are hand-drawn using a drawing tablet.

In early stages of the process, I did work with some much simpler and more graphic sketches that still encapsulated the combination of wine and boxes. You can also see an earlier version of the tagline.

Here are more detailed versions of the sub marks:

Red Poppy Print - Tiled Desktop Background Free Download

These poppies were watercolored by hand and put together to be a continuous pattern in Photoshop.

Click the image above to make it bigger and then save it or right-click and set it as your desktop background. Drop me a comment or email if it doesn't work, or you need a larger size!

Fire Ant Trail Print - Tiled Desktop Background Free Download

These fire ant trails were painted by hand in gouache and put together to be a continuous pattern in Photoshop.

Click the image above to make it bigger and then save it or right-click and set it as your desktop background. Drop me a comment or email if it doesn't work, or you need a larger size!

Manatee, Seaweed, and Coral Print - Tiled Desktop Background Free Download

These manatees, seaweed, and coral were watercolored by hand and put together to be a continuous pattern in Photoshop.

Click the image above to make it bigger and then save it or right-click and set it as your desktop background. Drop me a comment or email if it doesn't work, or you need a larger size!