Back like Lazarus!

Hello everyone! Just in case you were worried, we're not gone. Much to my dismay our Flitch Blog fell by the wayside. We'll be trying to rectify that here in the coming weeks.

Things were a little slow before and during the holidays but have picked up nicely. The last two weeks in particular have been sweet music to our ears. Thanks to everyone that poked their head in the office in the last little while.

I wouldn't even know where to start for a recap of the last few months so I won't. Just know that we've continued to live off of Little Ceasar's Pepperoni Pizza (Crazy Crusted) with a side of Italian Cheese Bread (ICB) and a Pepsi to wash it all down. Ten bucks never tasted better! I'm sad to report a tragedy of sorts within our office however. For whatever reason our plant has been sick and we can't figure out how to heal it. We've tried a weird black tonic that was supposed to "revitalize" and "nourish" our poor little plant but I'm not seeing any improvement. I'm about one step away from hiring a witch doctor to cast off evil spirits within it or something! If any of you out there have any knowlege of indoor plants that you wish to impart to us PLEASE help!

In other news... we just finished a wrap for the guys over at Advanced Mobile Lube. Posted below are some pictures of it. Mike and Quinn are the owner/operators and are both great guys. You all should check them out. They'll come to your home or place of business to perform your oil change. Their rates are about what you would pay if your were to take it to a service station, but without the hassle. I for one will be using them, especially for my motorcycle. Let us know what you think of the wrap in the comments section below. Flitch Out!

Jake

Streamlined and sporty! Kinda like the mystery machine on steroids.

It's got a nice rear too

If you can't tell what that texture on the body is it's Rhino Liner.
Yep, we have vinyl that is designed to stick to rough surfaces like that one.

Happy Halloween!

Hi everyone. In the spirit of Halloween Matt and I along with our wives attended a friends Halloween Party dressed as the Mac guy and the PC guy. Our wives were OS X Leopard and Windows Vista respectively. It got a pretty good rise from most people. It was a lot of fun. Of course we are both big Mac guys so Matt was a good sport for being the PC (even though it wouldn't have worked the other way). Thanks to Pete and Sadie Best for putting on a great party! You guys rock!

Jake

"Jake you look small. It's like trick photography. And Matt, you look like an Ogre who works in the library" -Murray-

Flitch Supports MDA

Hi everyone. I want to take this opportunity to let you all know that Flitch Creative is raising money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association via a lock-up taking place on October 29th. We are proud to support a good cause to help these children afford to go to summer camp, have access to wheelchairs and other needful equipment, not to mention funding to find a cure for the disease. Please help us in this cause by donating whatever you can. We are suggesting a donation of $25, $50 or $100, but whatever you can manage would be greatly appreciated. Please go to:

https://www.joinmda.org/2008stgeorge/jake

Sincerely,
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Jake Albrecht
Matt Dotson

Awear Spotlight

I want to feature some of our clients on our blog here from time to time. Recently we had the privilege to work with Vicki Fitch to come up with a corporate identity for her new womens clothing retail store Awear. Vicki had some progressive ideas for her company so we wanted to come up with a clean and modern look for her logo, business cards and other artwork.

Awear is a recycled clothing outlet. Don't let the term recycled clothing fool you though, the clothes I saw looked brand new and definitely not like something you would find at Deseret Industries for example. All of you women out there should check it out. It's located in Ancestor Square on the boulevard side. We wish Vicki much success in her business.

Weather Master Truck Graphics

Here is a project that we completed last Friday. The good guys over at Weather Master needed some truck graphics to be displayed in front of the Dixie Center during the SUHB convention. Matt and I did all of the installation ourselves and I've got to admit it turned out really nice. It took a little under two hours to install all of the graphics. We beat the sun and heat so that's all that matters. Here are some pics.

Clean cuts and seamless lines

It helps when you have a nice truck to start with

Late Night Party at Flitch

Coming out of the gates we were getting a fair amount of business. That fair amount of business has turned into a small mountain of business – at least enough to get us coming back on several nights recently to catch up on projects. For the most part we don't mind the late night work. We come in and do our "All Request Live itunes playlist" which is basically taking turns queuing up our favorite songs and alternating playing them. The Pepsi and Dew flows like the salmon of Capastrano and we generally have a good time. Here are some pictures to prove what a slammin' party we throw late at night at Flitch.

"Big" Matt doing work! Check the shoes!

Matt C. with the duel BlueTooths. The ultimate in multitasking.

My personal paradise... sort of.

If you ever thought for one second that we didn't love our jobs, I'm here to dispell that theory. I mean I think it is plain to see from the photos that we do. Imagine how fun it would be for you to go into work everyday and make someone look good. That's exactly what we do!

JAKE

Tutorial Requests

I've been on a number of different designers' blogs and one thing that I found to be most interesting was some of them would post Photoshop or Illustrator tutorials. That got me to thinking that Flitch should be doing the same thing. After all it is our duty to help spread good design to the rest of the world. I've done a few little tutorials in the past for simple things, but I think I'm going to put together something a little more advanced.

The inner geek in me would love to wield this 3.5" of cold cellular steel. Great illustration too.

I'll be the first to admit that while I'm very competent in Adobe Illustrator, there is still more to learn. I do know a few cool tricks that I could share with you all. Keep an eye out for a tutorial sometime in September. Hopefully it will be something that can add to your design skills. Please give suggestions in the comments section and I'll try to do one of them.

Jake