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December 2011
We’re consolidating operations at our new world headquarters in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles. While this transition is expected to take several months to complete, our mailing address is changing immediately.
Our new studio address is:
The Doyle/Logan Company
4305 Sunset Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90027
USA
Our telephone number remains the same: 310 209 0190
Please direct all company and any personal mail previously sent to the Irvine address to our new address, effective immediately.
Our home addresses remain the same as we consolidate operations. When sending packages, messengers, FedEx, or urgent items, as well as checks or invoices, please contact the recipient for the best address.
To download vcards for The Doyle/Logan Company, please visit the contact page on our website. (Click the tab with the Bedlingtion Terrier in the lower right corner on our home page.)
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December 2011
Sand, Sea, and Snow Village
photograph by Clay Doyle
Snow Village courtesy of Eric See
photographed in Morro Bay, California 2010
We get a lot of nice comments on our annual holiday cards (thank you) and last year we also had many requests for copies of the Sand, Sea, and Snow Village card we photographed at Morro Bay, California using a vintage collection of Department 56 Snow Village buildings.
This year, we’ve made a selection of our previous holiday card designs available for print-on-demand purchase online.
Visit zazzle.com/quazbo to see the complete selection of cards. You can buy one or 1000. You can even customize the card with your own greeting.
Of course, if you need custom cards for Christmas, Hanukkah, the New Year, or any occasion, please contact us directly.
Cheers,
Clay Doyle and Michael Logan
PS. If we don’t have your current address, do email it to us. I’d hate for you to miss this year’s card.
December Evening
photograph by Clay Doyle and Michael Logan
2009
Votives with Christmas Tree
Southwark Cathedral, London
December 2007
Photograph by Michael Logan
The Christmas Bedlingtons
Sophie left, & Phoebe right, 2003
Concept by Clay Doyle
Photograph by Michael Logan
No terriers were harmed in creating this photo.
zazzle.com/quazbo
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March 2011
In 2011, we are continuing to refine our processes and infrastructure to provide our clients with the best possible service. While many of these changes are invisible, there is one notable exception: we are pleased to introduce Doug Amdur, who joined us at the beginning of this year, as our new Director of Account Services.
Though Doug’s role at The Doyle/Logan Company will be evolving, he will be taking over many of the scheduling, traffic and other project management issues that we have been handling side-by-side with our creative tasks. Our goal is to let the creative team (us) spend more time conceptualizing and building compelling design for you, while Doug will create project plans, creative briefs and timelines, schedule print jobs and photography, and more effectively communicate this information to you in order to keep us all on track and within budget.
With over 15 years of marketing communications and project management background, Doug brings a range of skills, including content development and branding in a variety of industries, including computer software, life sciences and consumer package goods. Our relationship with Doug spans many years and projects, and we are confident he will enable us to better serve the varied needs of our clients.
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December 2010
Many thanks to Dennis (for the pictures of our shirts in Amsterdam), and to Gary (dressed in Bedlington style for a Parisian party.) If you have pictures of any of our shirts you’d be willing to share, we’d love to see them. Send us an email or a link.
As we posted earlier, the 2011 Bedlington Terrier T is the last of the series… after six shirts, it just seemed time to move on. If you haven’t gotten one this year, there are a few left.
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August 2010
August 11 is Michael Logan’s birthday and in celebration of that, a post from the Doyle/Logan archives—it’s one of our earliest collaborations. This was Michael’s illustration for the an invitation we created for the Los Angeles Conservancy (founded 1978) fifth anniversary party. The concept was to make the invitation a blueprint of five birthday candles.
Michael’s birthday this year also features a five, so it seemed like a fun idea to resurrect this image from early in our partnership. Happy Birthday.— Clay Doyle
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August 2010
We love illustration. We’d like to see more of it. We’ve been a fan of Greg Clarke for many years.
Greg Clarke has done some great work for our projects and our clients. I particularly like the way he mixes humor and sophistication, and I really appreciate the way he can come up with concepts and ideas. All this is by way of introducing his new blog, where you can see some new work, some old work, and most interestingly, some sketches that illuminate his thinking and process.
Great cover for the latest Boston Globe Magazine; I get so tired of celebrity portraits, don’t you?
You can find Greg’s blog at www.drawger.com/gregclarke
plus lots of past work at his website (which is pretty cool, even though we didn’t design it) at www.gregclarke.com
P.S. Note the clever alteration of the “g” in the logo.
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July 2010
Time for a bit of levity: several friends have sent me this link to a humorous post by the Australian writer and designer David Thorne on his satirical blog 27bslash6.com.
Hope you’ll find his tale of client/designer miscommunication as entertaining (and insightful) as I do. Read the post here, then return if you’d like for a few observations.
http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
As funny as this is, I think it holds some important insights for both designers and clients. The most obvious of course, is that something can be clever and attractive and yet completely fail to clearly communicate the intended message. Since the point of good design is communication (except perhaps in political advertising) this disconnect between image and meaning is the source of most of the humor in the post.
Also interesting to me is the way digital design processes have made it possible—often even expected—to produce “instant” design. What gets lost however is time to think about a project; to consider and reject ideas. And thinking about a problem and possible solutions (and discard them) is really where the value in hiring creative people rests.
It also shows that the design process is a process, I rather like the final poster…it’s clear and concise, yet has a touch of the unexpected that might actually get the poster noticed—amid what one can only assume is a sea of similar flyers. The design process can sometimes be a messy one, but (assuming one withholds the snarky comments and remains friendly) can ultimately arrive at a successful solution. Although it is perfectly legitimate to question whether or not a project actually requires the services of a designer.
There’s a lot more funny stuff on David Thorne’s blog—much of it not about design. Hope it brings a smile to your day. —Clay Doyle.
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