As is common with us, you know, creative types, all of us at White Design Studio have another creative outlet (or two) in addition to graphic design. Mine is painting. I studied Visual Communication Design at Kent State, which is a design-intensive program similar to DAAP here at UC, but I concentrated in illustration and still enjoy painting/illustrating on a regular basis. Every now and then, I get to show some of my work in a show, such as this past weekend's Upstart Art Show. It was a lot of fun and a big success. I shared space with other friends and artists: glass blowers, photographers, jewelry and collage artists. In fact, the show was so successful, with such a high turnout, there are plans to make it an annual event - possibly even biannual, with a summer show. I will post to the White Stuff when a new show is on the horizon!

You can check my personal web site for more paintings, too. www.danielschmidtart.com

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The work comes in all shapes and sizes! This month we designed a series of brochures for the Indiana Teamsters Union that outline their health benefit plans. With specific printing and budget specifications, we produced some professional and user-friendly books that raise the bar in their industry.

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I love the variety at White Design Studio. One day it's a frog mascot for a car wash, the next is an ad campaign for high tech cameras that see through walls! If you are not familiar with the "IR" camera market, it is pretty competitive - yet most ads you will see in trade publications look very similar. When we were asked to create a new ad line for Mikron Infrared Camera, our challenge was to elevate the design to reflect the professional and sophisticated products they were marketing. Now there's no mistaking a Mikron ad among their competitors.

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