Hi! I'm Cait. I'm a graphic designer, artist and all-around-creative from Jacksonville, FL. After graduating from FSU in 2008, I've been making my living by making things livelier. My goal in life is to make things pretty, simple, and most of all, help you communicate your business, product, or event. Colors are key, but how you use them is king. That's where I come in.
In 2010, 12 special operations warriors from the Blue Team set their minds to raising money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Instead of another lackluster car wash, the team wanted to show their creativity as much as possible. Attracting attention is an integral step to fundraising, and these furry beasts would certainly do just that!
The Team designed a bar crawl in the Pensacola-Destin area to raise money and awareness for the foundation. By wearing panda costumes, they were able to attract the attention of adults and children alike, posing for pictures and soliciting information about the cause. Drinks specials were made specifically for the bar crawl, with proceeds going to the the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full scholarship grants along with educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations personnel who have died in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families.
During the Fall of 2007, my Senior year in the FSU Studio Art Department, I was playing with many new types of media. My fingers (and toes) just could not get dirty enough - friends even joked that I smelled of a mixture between oil and sawdust, which I proudly accessorized with black fingernails and purple elbows.
That was the first semester (and last) that I ever took a print-making class. The intricacy of etching was more than I ever dreamt - preparing the copper plate, actually etching the forms into it, and then finally producing a piece of art was quite a process. When it was all said and done, you had about 25 ever so slightly differing pieces of the same image. Its incredible when you put into perspective the amount of work artists such as Picasso and Schirmer accomplished.
For this series, I found a particular liking to the theme of dinosaurs and played with a few variations of technique and narratives of how the species finally died off. After each the etchings were printed, brightly colored thread and ink were introduced to further detail the individual stories.
We recently asked 12 of our members to interpret the symbol most synonymous with love—the heart—for the 2012 I Love Design poster project. Each person brought a different creative interpretation. Here is today’s rendering of the classic love icon, created by Caitlin Armstrong.
Check back each day for a new interpretation. The full poster will be unveiled and sold at AIGA Jacksonville’s annual Valentine to the creative community, I Love Design, on Thursday, February 16.
~ I Love Design and the I Love Design poster project are proudly sponsored by Print Resources.
A practice in using different materials for mark-making. Making random marks on paper creates an interesting composition, even two that coincidentally can be considered similar in form. India ink on water color became one of my favorite media combinations because of the simplicity in each of them, yet allowed for great complexity if they were manipulated.
Step Out In Nature is a fantastic concept put together by the Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens which is targeted to teach children the importance of physical activity and outdoor recreation. With childhood obesity at an ever-growing rate, communities across the United States are working together to create solutions that will harbor safe exercise habits and healthy living practices.
We Can Make Anything was asked to help Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens in creating a website which students could log online and “track their steps” - around the Arboretum’s trails. The program was initiated among Arlington neighborhood elementary schools in Jacksonville, FL and is targeted to expand even further to other neighborhoods and surrounding NE Florida communities.
Step Out In Nature was built by our developer Matt, including a log in process, a database to track steps, and an automated reporting system, so that Arboretum staff and board members could easily log on and check the status of the program. Illustration, copy and design for the project were done by our designer Cait, to include youth-friendly text and graphics, as well as a user-experience that could accomodate both adults and children.
I made this Advent wreath for the AIGA Jacksonville Toy Show made of Origami Fortune Tellers. The idea is to pull one off each day of Advent to find your fortune for the Christmas season. The wreath was a hit and I’ve already fallen into two commissions! Contact me if you’d like to sign up for your own!
