• I’m curious... TRUE / FALSE : you found us via this genius lady right here 👆🏻? I, Jen, met @jennakutcher when we were both speaking at an event hosted by my client @marymarantz back when Jenna was still a full-time wedding photographer, didn’t have a podcast, didn’t have any courses and was juuuust starting to really grow her Instagram following. We bonded over a makeshift charcuterie board constructed on a towel (thank you, @jeffreyshipley and @darrenhansen) and wayyyy too-strong gin and tonics in a hotel room (after one, I promptly fell asleep sitting up on the couch #coolkid). When she asked me to design her first real custom website, I said YES, not knowing that website (which we’d design in her living room after yoga class while we listened to Drew vacuum) would catapult my career to new places, and her career would EXPLODE into viral superstar educator status just a few months later. And best of all, we’d be solid, firm, for real friends thereafter. (Fun facts: I get Jenna’s advice on most of my designs — in another life, she’s a designer with us, I swear — we’ve taken pregnancy tests together, and I was the first guest on her podcast, which I casually recorded on my couch with almost no prep while I prayed the Amazon guy came late... and now it’s been listened to a BAJILLION times): Crazy part: that was only four years ago. 😱 We’ve updated her website a few times over the years to reflect changes in her life, aesthetic and business, but I can’t help but feel this last update most thoroughly encapsulates who she is... (yes, totally the BFF who brings the good snacks, who welcomed me to her house wearing a sweatshirt with a giant bear drinking a beer). “Make it feel like freedom,” Jenna said in her (very well-organized) design brief for this new site. And so we did. And I’m continually proud of this little corner of the internet we’ve built together, that still looks like no one else, because of course it shouldn’t. Cheers to you, Jenna, and everyone like you who refuses to go with the flow, since “only dead fish do that.” 😘 Also... Jenna and I have a fun announcement on Monday, so get excited! Any guesses?
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    I’m curious... TRUE / FALSE : you found us via this genius lady right here 👆🏻? I, Jen, met @jennakutcher when we were both speaking at an event hosted by my client @marymarantz back when Jenna was still a full-time wedding photographer, didn’t have a podcast, didn’t have any courses and was juuuust starting to really grow her Instagram following. We bonded over a makeshift charcuterie board constructed on a towel (thank you, @jeffreyshipley and @darrenhansen) and wayyyy too-strong gin and tonics in a hotel room (after one, I promptly fell asleep sitting up on the couch #coolkid). When she asked me to design her first real custom website, I said YES, not knowing that website (which we’d design in her living room after yoga class while we listened to Drew vacuum) would catapult my career to new places, and her career would EXPLODE into viral superstar educator status just a few months later. And best of all, we’d be solid, firm, for real friends thereafter. (Fun facts: I get Jenna’s advice on most of my designs — in another life, she’s a designer with us, I swear — we’ve taken pregnancy tests together, and I was the first guest on her podcast, which I casually recorded on my couch with almost no prep while I prayed the Amazon guy came late... and now it’s been listened to a BAJILLION times): Crazy part: that was only four years ago. 😱 We’ve updated her website a few times over the years to reflect changes in her life, aesthetic and business, but I can’t help but feel this last update most thoroughly encapsulates who she is... (yes, totally the BFF who brings the good snacks, who welcomed me to her house wearing a sweatshirt with a giant bear drinking a beer). “Make it feel like freedom,” Jenna said in her (very well-organized) design brief for this new site. And so we did. And I’m continually proud of this little corner of the internet we’ve built together, that still looks like no one else, because of course it shouldn’t. Cheers to you, Jenna, and everyone like you who refuses to go with the flow, since “only dead fish do that.” 😘 Also... Jenna and I have a fun announcement on Monday, so get excited! Any guesses?
  • We love anything font-related, OBVIOUSLY, so here are a few typefaces we’ve loved lately. Breakdown as follows: - Commuters Sans, free for use with Adobe Typekit - Made Outer Sans, free for personal use, dafont.com - Newsreader Display, paid - The Impressionist, paid, Creative Market - Simplon Mono, paid (Google’s Roboto Mono is similar) - Blacker Display, free for personal use, dafont.com - Interstate Regular, free for use with Adobe Typekit All of the MadeType free (for personal use) fonts are excellent, so check them out for sure! Hit the bookmark to save this for a reference later! :) 👍🏻👎🏻 Which is your fave? And yes / no to more font posts?
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    We love anything font-related, OBVIOUSLY, so here are a few typefaces we’ve loved lately. Breakdown as follows: - Commuters Sans, free for use with Adobe Typekit - Made Outer Sans, free for personal use, dafont.com - Newsreader Display, paid - The Impressionist, paid, Creative Market - Simplon Mono, paid (Google’s Roboto Mono is similar) - Blacker Display, free for personal use, dafont.com - Interstate Regular, free for use with Adobe Typekit All of the MadeType free (for personal use) fonts are excellent, so check them out for sure! Hit the bookmark to save this for a reference later! :) 👍🏻👎🏻 Which is your fave? And yes / no to more font posts?
  • ✨ REMINDER: Beautiful things are gonna bloom. (They may still be hidden in the dirt).
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    ✨ REMINDER: Beautiful things are gonna bloom. (They may still be hidden in the dirt).
  • 🔥 ON AVOIDING BURNOUT: “You have to figure out how to work hard without burning out. People find their own strategies for this, but one that almost always works is to find work you like doing with people you enjoy spending a lot of time with.” — Sam Altman Tag your people. 💕
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    🔥 ON AVOIDING BURNOUT: “You have to figure out how to work hard without burning out. People find their own strategies for this, but one that almost always works is to find work you like doing with people you enjoy spending a lot of time with.” — Sam Altman Tag your people. 💕