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I create work across many mediums, including: logos, identities, information design, websites and ecommerce marketing, editorial design, retail signage and branding, corporate communications, advertising, posters, packaging, invitations, and photography.

 
Got recipes?

I'll prepare them, shoot them and then do the dishes for you.

What I'm available for:
Professional editorial styling, photography and retouching.

Styling, photo, retouching and layout/graphics services for menus and cookbooks.

Styling, photography and retouching for online media.

I'm also available for:
Assignment food-related articles and recipe development.

Photography Rates:
Hourly rate, with discounts for full-day and multiple-day assignments. Industry-standard image licensing rates. Additional costs for travel and groceries may apply. Email for a quote.

 

           

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Thoughts

Good design is good business

Alyssa Yeager

Everyone seems to know it, everyone seems to want it, and designers, innovators, creatives are in place to provide it; yet when we're not dealing with enterprises that get it, it becomes necessary to continually justify what we bring to the table and make a business case for investing further in it.

This Fast Company article does an excellent job of making that case; and explaining what is inherently obvious to many, but not all.

“What everything in this issue shares is a motivating ethos that [Thomas Watson Jr.] also hinted at during his Wharton speech, just before the quote that everyone knows. ‘We are convinced,’ he said, ‘that good design can materially help make a good product reach its full potential.’ Replace product with business. Or even person. In every instance, the wisdom rings true.”
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Sixty and she knows it

Alyssa Yeager

In February, my mom turned sixty; so to celebrate the occasion in a big and unexpected way, we decided to throw her a surprise party. Commissioned to handle the invitations, I chose a "sexy" gold and black Studio 54-style theme and rolled with it, creating a nice little mark and invitation that went out as an HTML email invite (and a printed invitation for those who were not as hip to the whole email thang).

I traveled home to Philly for the big event and crashed with my brother so no one would know I was there. Mom was definitely surprised... And thrilled! They all made me hide in the kitchen for the initial "Surprise!", and motioned for me to walk out afterwards for a second little shock. Mom had no idea I was there, so we hit her with the good ol' double surprise and totally made her day.

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Why I can't stop making stuff

Alyssa Yeager

I can't stop making stuff because I don’t know how to be any other way. I live to get my hands dirty, to be weird and different, to add something new to the world that might make people stop and think, to stir up change even if it’s just a little bit at a time. I want to leave something behind… So that when I’m gone, someone somewhere might see some strange object, or a photograph, a design, or a piece of writing that I created and know that I was here (whether they like it or not!).

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