dani stitz

New Work

2011-10-01T14:34:00.000-07:00

New Work

2011-10-01T14:31:00.000-07:00

New Work

2011-10-01T14:29:00.000-07:00

Patterns

2011-02-14T13:16:00.000-08:00

These are some more recent patterns I did. I was experimenting with different techniques and art styles.

A Kitty Valentine

2011-02-14T13:08:00.000-08:00

On my other blog, Cat People, I made a cat valentine for people to download and use themselves. Get it here!

Mug

2011-02-01T15:17:00.000-08:00

This is a mug I designed last year actually as a holiday gift. It is a another pattern for the Atmosphere Creative identity.

Pet Logos

2011-01-29T14:17:00.000-08:00

These are a bunch of logos I did for a start up pet company. It is so start up that I am not even sure if these will be used anytime soon. But I liked working on them and thought they were fun so I am posting them anyways.

Cat People

2011-01-29T13:59:00.000-08:00

I have been bad at updating this blog of mine. I apologize for that. Here is a blog I started in November called Cat People and is a blog about cat related art, design, and fashion. It is for cat lovers with style. I designed the logo and the whole look of it and have been since updating it regularly. I also have a twitter for it here.

Christmas Wrapping

2011-01-29T13:50:00.000-08:00

Here is the hang tag I made for my Christmas presents this last Christmas along with how I wrapped my presents in kraft paper and yarn pom poms. Everything was red and white with the kraft this year. Also you can slightly see one of my kitties on the side.

identities

2010-11-02T20:54:00.000-07:00

here are two identities i did at work. it's not much, but i haven't posted in so long i felt like a post was needed.

more bday kitties

2010-06-06T14:42:00.000-07:00

i have gotten very into designing cards for people with my kitties on them. the first one was for my mom, and it is all of the kitties we have (yes its a lot, dear god, we are crazy cat ladies already), and it is a play on dr. suess' 'one fish two fish'. the second one is for my boyfriend who likes science fiction stuff a lot. it is based on the 'attack of the 50 foot woman' movie poster, but with a kitty instead.

24 birthday

2010-06-06T14:20:00.001-07:00

my birthday was last month, and i decided to throw a bbq and have a ton of fun decorating for it. these are some photos of the decorations and my kitty getting festive for the occasion.

on the way

2010-04-19T22:06:00.000-07:00

while working for atmosphere, i was given the fun opportunity to come up with a new look for the firm. above is the atmosphere creative logo. the asterisk icon, is actually the weather symbol for snow. so based upon that, i did some research on the weather and made some more weather symbols to go with the one above in the logo. back when i made them, i knew what they all were associated with. now i just remember a few. anyways, once i came up with these, now what do i do with them? below are a bunch of trials and errors on the way to find the right look.

and tada! above is the final look. the symbols are all floating around with an opacity like what weather does. you may think you have the weather figured out, and then it throws something at you that you didn't expect. it can rain and snow at the same time, or be sunny and raining, or be hot and then storm clouds come rolling in. then the image two above is the secondary pattern, which just uses one color. we made mugs with that pattern on it for xmas.

julia's bday

2010-04-08T20:56:00.000-07:00

here is a card i made for my friend julia, who lives in and loves dc. it is based on the dc subway map, which is, in my opinion, the easiest public transportation to navigate in the world.

geo patterns

2010-04-08T20:39:00.000-07:00

below are something i made a long time ago working for atmosphere creative. it was for a brochure about what we do, but then i got a chance to redesign their whole look (which i will post later) and so these are now just some pretty patterns.

dad bday card

2010-03-21T15:50:00.000-07:00

here is a birthday card i did for my dad. he loves pie, and he loves to make fun of all of our kitties.

valentine's day cards

2010-02-20T15:55:00.000-08:00

above are the two cards i made for valentine's day. the first one is for my boyfriend erik, it's a play on our halloween costumes and i always say he's my moon. the second one is for my mom and that's her fat cat gigi who she loves.

2010-02-04T21:37:00.001-08:00

once upon a time i had a blog which i would post blogs about frequently. then i got a job, life happened, the holidays came, and things got crazy. so now with things settling down it's time for me to start blogging all those things i should have been blogging these last couple months. so get ready for a ton of posts!

below are a bunch of patterns i made for computers stickers. it was one of the first things i did at my work. they were just thrown together fast and are for lots of different ages, hence the hearts. enjoy!

lbs logo

2009-11-15T19:49:00.001-08:00

here is the logo for an accounting firm for lionel b. sanders here in la. the above logo is the chosen one by the client in black and white, and the ones below are some of the other versions i did. i like the one directly below the best.

scarrrry owl

2009-11-04T20:44:00.000-08:00

thought it would be nice to upload my little owl pumpkin i carved for halloween.

happy halloweenie!

2009-11-01T10:37:00.001-08:00

i did this little ecard for my mom to send to everyone of little scary cute ghosts.

true water

2009-10-06T20:28:00.000-07:00

true water is a fake brand i developed for Hero Surface, a company that provides entertainment industries with artwork and design without copyright issues. one of these days i will print and photograph the labels, but until then, here is the vector work.

recent invitation designs

2009-10-06T20:13:00.000-07:00

these are some example invitations i designed. they aren't actual people or actual events. i designed a bunch and after a while it became rather hard making up the names of imaginary people or families.

more flowers

2009-07-24T11:27:00.001-07:00

these are some more flower designs i did. i wanted the colors to be like blue sea glass.

flowers

2009-07-23T12:21:00.001-07:00

i made these flowers for something else but thought i would turn them into a nice little pattern for my blog because of my lack of posting.

scarf designs

2009-07-22T16:56:00.000-07:00

it has been a crazy summer so far. first i wasn't here, then i was but with visitors, then my computer broke, then i was swamped with work, and now things have slowed down and i can actually catch up with some things that i probably should have posted to this blog.

these scarf designs i did a couple months back for ellen allen annapolis who i have been working with for a little over a year now doing freelance work. and i did a ton of variations of these scarves in the ellen allen annapolis colors. and there will also be more scarves to come. but here are just a sample of the over 100 scarf designs.

new stationary... now how?

2009-05-05T09:45:00.001-07:00

i just made these little stationary cards i was planning on printing, but now i am having some issues figuring all that out. they also need a few adjustments to them but that is easy. i have all these big plans for things but no idea how to actually get it done, or really any money to get things done as well.

mom's bday card

2009-05-04T15:04:00.000-07:00

i just made this little card for my mom's birthday today. my mom really likes cats and i wanted it to be fun

bday patterns

2009-04-29T17:42:00.001-07:00

i am working on some notecards and these are some of the designs i have so far. the last one of the ferns i am not using, it's not birthday enough, but i still like the ferns being all colorful.

pattern friday

2009-04-24T10:59:00.001-07:00

i just made this little birdy pattern for a project i am doing at the moment.

something found

2009-04-22T23:47:00.001-07:00

i went through my external hard drive today and found this i did a year ago. it is a tray design for this project that didn't amount to anything. i stole some of the elements to make the new header for my other blog, so at least it wasn't a waste.

headers

2009-04-22T17:49:00.000-07:00

these are some headers i did for my other blog, xodani. i did the bottom one first, but it wasn't exactly what i wanted. so i changed it to the top one.

poppy fields

2009-04-21T20:09:00.000-07:00

i recently went to antelope valley poppy reserve where there are fields and fields of poppies. i LOVE poppies and had a ton of fun photographing them all. we came slightly late in the season to see them, so there weren't as many as there could have been, but there were still a lot of them and they still made me happy.

textures

2009-04-17T16:12:00.000-07:00

i take a lot of photos when i go places and have realized that a lot of them are close up shots of different textures. i compiled some of them together to compare the textures and to see them as a whole which are below. these were also just the photos i have on my computer, which means they are from this last year, and there are a lot more on my external hard drive to upload later whenever i feel like fishing that out and searching through it.

pattern friday

2009-04-17T12:48:00.000-07:00

this friday's pattern is another exploration of the fern pattern. i wanted to do a simpler, two color version of the ferns. i love ferns, i think they are complicated and simple at the same time, and rather forgotten as a plant.

happy easter

2009-04-12T13:05:00.000-07:00

pattern friday

2009-04-10T09:32:00.000-07:00

this week was the beginning of pattern friday, where each friday i am going to post a pattern i have done the past week. since after graduating i haven't been doing a good job about making work and being creative. so, pattern friday is my attempt to force myself to create more, be inspired, and get more work done.

the pattern above is a daffodil pattern. i love daffodils, they are such a happy flower. it is their time right now since it is spring, even though in southern california we don't get many of them, which is a shame.

close ups

2009-04-09T20:06:00.001-07:00

santa cruz trip

2009-04-09T19:22:00.000-07:00

here are some photos i took last weekend when i went to visit my sister in santa cruz.

hello kitty card case

2009-04-09T15:32:00.000-07:00

these are some designs i did for work. it was for a hello kitty card case. the designs on top would be screened on whereas the patterns on the bottom ones would be engraved. it wasn't what they were looking for and they aren't going to be made, but i had fun doing them and thought they were fun.

spring is here!

2009-03-31T16:42:00.000-07:00

new patterns for the spring

curiosity book

2009-02-22T15:52:00.000-08:00

this is a little book i designed for this one company. the book shows a collection of nature, both gathered and graphic.

cards

2009-02-22T15:27:00.000-08:00

these are some stationary cards i designed recently

xmas, delayed

2009-01-29T16:58:00.000-08:00

much delayed, here is a design i did for a christmas card for my mom

prints

2008-09-28T20:33:00.000-07:00

these are some screen prints from forever ago that i just recently took photos of for a project. i love screen printing, i wish i could do it more.

petrified

2008-09-22T22:49:00.000-07:00

i got a little obsessed with the petrified forest logs when i was there. i took loads of loads of photos. just every log i went by looked better than the last and deserved a photo. there are just so many colors in the stones, and you can see the details of bark in some. they are incredibly beautiful, and ridiculously heavy.

a little bit of elvis

2008-09-22T22:38:00.001-07:00

we went to graceland, which was a large tourist trap, expansive, and didn't even have a great gift store. and i am not crazy crazy about elvis like some people, (i like johnny cash more). but, it was cool to see his house, we couldn't drive by it and not stop and see it. we were in a bit of a hurry, so i didn't take in as much as i probably should have. his house was lovely and amazingly tacky. and there was a museum with all of this awards, gold records, outfits, photos, and great posters. i just thought the posters were so funny, so that is what is above.

road trip

2008-09-22T22:08:00.000-07:00

I drove across the country with my mom, from maryland to california. we went through virginia, north carolina, tennessee, arkansas, oaklahoma, texas, new mexico, and arizona. it was very fun. we saw lots of countryside and could see how the land changes from state to state. these photos are a select few. i am working on uploading all of them to flickr, but i have too many photos for my monthly limit so i have to wait until next month to upload the rest.

smoky mountains

the fantastic wallpaper at the b & b we stayed at in ashville, n. carolina

the biltmore

yummy biscuits

graceland, a elvis disneyland

72oz steak

old home of camanches, palo duro canyon

cadillac ranch, texas

chile peppers in new mexico

the painted desert

petrified forest logs

this is why there are flash floods in the desert

sedona, arizona

cathedral rock and that red river

website update

2008-08-27T14:58:00.000-07:00

woo hoo! finally completed updating my website. i have added some new projects and have rephotographed some other projects. you can see my website here.

action camera

2008-08-17T17:35:00.001-07:00

i got this cool lomography action camera and finally got a chance to use it this summer since it has no flash and requires direct sunlight. i took a lot of photos of the clouds and these flags blowing in the wind, which the first two are of. i haven't scanned them all yet but those top two are a taste of it. then there's a photo of me jumping and my friend john waving where those two you can clearly see the action.

here is what my camera looks like:

freeways, finally

2008-08-16T09:10:00.001-07:00

this book took me forever to finish. it was started an embarrassing year and a half ago when i was in london. they were so lax about everything there that i technically didn't have to finish the book, meaning put it all together. that was also the hardest part since i wanted to have these much larger pages that fold out of the book, referencing a map. so since i didn't have to finish it then, and because it was a challenge for me to figure out (also because i am not a book binding master or anything near that), AND because school then started again which means lots of other work, this book was just left unfinished. until now, i have FINALLY finished this book. it got a bit of a makeover from what it was way back in london, but it is bound and photographed and beautiful.

besides the making of this book, the content of the book is making los angeles freeways, the very impersonal pieces of concrete, into a more personal experience using stories from people i know. living in la, we spend a large amount of time driving on freeways. freeways are incredibly ugly, and mostly full of traffic, but we have to drive on them and everyone just deals with it. but it is part of our life, and we do have experiences on freeways. this book is trying to make these personality-less freeways into a something that has personality and life in it, which will then make driving on them a happier experience.

here is a story i collected for the book:
"I had to meet my dad for dinner after work and we agreed to meet at home. As soon as we got on the 5, I decided to see if I could beat him home. I merged onto the 2 thinking I was so clever, and when I excitedly turned onto the main road, I saw my dad pulled over by the cops because his fog lights were on. And then I laughed because I won."

four years

2008-08-16T08:59:00.001-07:00

four years is a personal book that is describing the last four years of my life through diagrams and illustrations. it is pretty much my crazy book. the book is expressing inside of my head, with organized clarity mixed with visual chaos. it has pages in there about the freeways i have gone to, houses i have lived in and where, desserts i have baked, and shoes i have bought. all of which is within the last four years of my life, since those are the years that i have experienced the most change out of my entire life.

bday cards

2008-08-04T12:50:00.000-07:00

these are just some birthday card designs. there are a bunch of people i know with birthdays coming up, and whenever i go look at stationary i always think how i can either do better or can make them myself. so i decided to make some cards of my own and then just print them out on my printer. that was before i realized my printer is a bastard and won't print nicely anymore. new printer time yay!

scarves

2008-07-15T16:46:00.001-07:00

here are some scarves i designed for Ellen Allen Annapolis who I have been working with for a while.

wooooo

2008-06-25T15:43:00.001-07:00

well, it's pretty exciting, i made it into the top 6 favorite urban forest banners. the closing event is on saturday at mica, and they are giving away 250 posters with the winning banners on them. these 250 posters i will be signing, with the others who won. when i get that banner i will post it for you all to see.

vote!

2008-06-14T15:34:00.000-07:00

everyone, being the five people that actually look at my blog, should go to this website and vote for my urban forest banner. i guess they choose some of the banners for people to choose their favorite, which will then be a part of a poster at the final event. so vote for me!

design*sponge

2008-06-02T09:03:00.000-07:00

i am on design*sponge! it's very exciting. you can see it here. wooooooo!

poppies

2008-05-28T17:31:00.001-07:00

these patterns are the recent ones that i printed and put on canvas for the commencement show.

fern chair pattern

2008-05-20T18:32:00.000-07:00

here is the pattern of the chairs i thought i would upload to have a closer view

commencement show continued

2008-05-20T18:13:00.000-07:00

mica commencement show

2008-05-20T18:11:00.000-07:00

this is my work for the mica commencement show which was this weekend.

family portrait

2008-05-20T17:55:00.001-07:00

this is the center for design practice group photo. we took the photo in one of those family portrait places in the mall. it was a funny experience, they arranged us in this position, and there were a bunch of ridiculous photos they have taken of people up on the walls. like this woman posing with her cat.

before and after

2008-05-14T18:04:00.000-07:00

these two chairs i painted blue and then recovered with my fern pattern for my senior show

setting up

2008-05-14T17:54:00.000-07:00

these "gd" letters were huuuuge and was fun figuring out how to put them up.

soon

2008-05-14T17:49:00.000-07:00

center for design practice

2008-04-28T11:19:00.000-07:00

green patterns

2008-04-24T16:50:00.000-07:00

these patterns are for this book i am making, where the patterns are the opposite page of these diagram type info graphics about my life. they are simple and one color.

abode pamphlet

2008-04-13T19:56:00.000-07:00

these are some photos of the pamphlet for the abode ipod cases i made

urban forest project opening more

2008-04-13T08:51:00.000-07:00

this is our GROW booth, were we had people sign up for trees and do the following.
this banner is the urban forest project logo naked, without any leaves or dots, and the idea was to show support for baltimore's tree canopy and helping trees and to sign one of the dots and put it on the tree. we then took their photograph which will be used in the closing event. below you can see a little boy putting his sticker on it.

we ended up getting quite a lot of people to sign the stickers. the tree is thriving.

urban forest project in baltimore's opening event

2008-04-13T08:29:00.000-07:00

a group of us helped plan the urban forest project in baltimore's opening event at the johns hopkins beach. we came up with a concept for it and helped develop the graphics used. below is the main big banner that you can see from the street.

since the whole event is to about the trees and to double the tree canopy in baltimore by having the city donate about 1000 trees to city residents, we decided to use the trees as part of the event. one of the groupings is seen above. there are 5 events that urban forest is doing for the next three months in different parks around baltimore, and since this was the opening event, we decided to promote that with the tree sections. each one is in the shape of a horse shoe with the banner promoting one of the coming events at the top of it. in between the trees were various tables, and at the bottom was a stage where bands were playing.
this is a close up of the banners.
these little circles were put in all the trees and around the older, actual trees that were there. they each had different large dollar amounts, that were to show how much money people would be saving if there were more trees in baltimore. so, if people help the tree canopy grow, then they will be saving money.

urban forest project banner

2008-04-13T08:25:00.001-07:00

here is my urban forest project banner. it is up at johns hopkins on the corner of little charles or something and art museum dr. it's a good location, i am happy about it. and it wasn't too difficult for me to photograph it, even though for the top one i was in the street.

leaves

2008-04-13T08:06:00.000-07:00

new leaves, think of it for the spring.

colorways

2008-04-10T12:25:00.001-07:00

this is a printed fabric of the colorways for the forest series. it was actually the piece that was up in bunting for the fab lab show.

and now for something completely different

2008-04-08T18:13:00.001-07:00

i was going through this sketchbook i had when i was in london and traveling, and scanned some of them in for a project i am doing and thought i would upload them to the blog. i dont really draw like this that much, so they aren't really that great. i just like the trees above.

new patterns

2008-04-05T15:45:00.000-07:00

i got this scandinavian design book from the library and it inspired me. i love sandinavian design and decided that i am going to go to sweden one day. the top pattern is daffodils, then strawberries, and then cattails.

sneak peak

2008-04-02T14:50:00.000-07:00

these are some images from a book i am going to be making about los angeles freeways. i started this project about a year ago when i was in london, and never quite finished it. the project was supposed to be a cultural project about where you are from, and i chose freeways since they aren't such a prevalent part of life anywhere else but los angeles. in between these images, i collected stories from friends about experiences they have had on los angeles freeways. the stories are all in the person's voice and are like the stories in the book "twillight" (which is about the los angeles riots, but from the perspective of a ton of different people all still keeping the way they talk).

here is one of the stories:

"I had to meet my dad for dinner after work and we agreed to meet at home. As soon as we got on the 5, I decided to see if I could beat him home. I merged onto the 2 thinking I was so clever, and when I excitedly turned onto the main road, I saw my dad pulled over by the cops because his fog lights were on. And then I laughed because I won."

victoria vox

2008-03-30T19:33:00.000-07:00

this weekend i got to see my cousin, Victoria Vox, play in baltimore. she plays the ukelele which is awesome, and she has this little drum set and little piano which her producer played with her. i loved the little drum set, it was very cute. she was really great, she has a lovely voice. victoria has a new album coming out, the first image, and if you are interested in checking it out, you can go to her myspace.

VDQ

2008-03-30T19:18:00.000-07:00

these are some pages out of a process book for the project Virtual Design Quilt, or VDQ, i did last year. i finally got it reprinted on lulu, which took forever because either my internet or lulu was being impossible.

VDQ was an interactive project where i asked artists and designers to email me a small square of any artwork, which was then put together on a website creating a "quilt" of the artwork mixed together.

beeeehive

2008-03-16T19:33:00.001-07:00

and also here are two product designs and the bags i made. i am very proud of the bags, i used the textile printer and then dyed them gray. im going to upload a better photo of them later. AND now i have three bags that i made that i can use at the super market. terrific.

beehive

2008-03-16T19:31:00.001-07:00

here's some of the plates i did for the group project beehive market.

jumping?

2008-03-03T19:00:00.000-08:00

so i googled my name and it came up on the blog jumping in front of artwork, which is this blog where people send in photos of them jumping in front of art. the photo above is from the blog, and the piece that looks like she is about to grab off the wall is mine. it is a from the Fab Lab show in the Pinkard Gallery at MICA, which was exploring the fabulous world of the new digital textile printer at our school. i guess some MICA students jumped in front of it and then sent it in. our names are all listed on the blog, hence how google found it.

palm sunday

2008-03-02T13:35:00.000-08:00

palm sunday because it i made it today on sunday and its palms AND it's almost palm sunday, but that has nothing to do with it.

sometimes

2008-03-01T12:01:00.000-08:00

sometimes i make things that i can't use for the project. like this.

more more more

2008-02-19T16:31:00.000-08:00

new patterns

2008-02-12T17:02:00.001-08:00

i've been inspired. AND i had a small, small lull in homework. AND the weather is crappy and farrrrr too cold for me to even think about going outside.

the project formally known as black eyed susan

2008-02-10T18:29:00.000-08:00

above are various logo ideas for a local market with the name 'black eyed susan.' (black eyed susan is the maryland state flower). the market would have local goods and produce. it would be about sustainability and being organic. then there are some possible shirts idea.

this is a group project, so all of this was before we had to change some things, like the name, which now is beehive market. so i will post some things i do for that later on.

left overs

2007-12-31T13:59:00.000-08:00

this is just another christmas pattern i thought i would just put up even though it is after christmas

fairy tale patterns

2007-12-25T16:45:00.000-08:00

this one is from rumplestiltskin

above is little redcap, or little red ridding hood.

then this one is from repunzel

these are some more patterns i made. the words are from grimm's fairy tales. they came out rather childlike, which is fine.

cards

2007-12-17T13:42:00.000-08:00

these are some cards i made out of my patterns for christmas presents.

snowflakes over baltimore

2007-12-16T11:50:00.001-08:00

these are the snowflakes i made to decorate our apt for christmas. i made a lot of them (they are addicting to make) and created these chain of snowflakes to hang around our apt with the christmas lights.

forest patterns

2007-12-12T09:52:00.000-08:00

these are some forest patterns i made

i love christmas

2007-12-10T19:53:00.000-08:00

here are some christmas cards and patterns i made when i was frustrated with doing work and just wanted christmas. the snowflakes are made up of antlers

abode patterns

2007-12-10T18:48:00.000-08:00

these are the patterns i made for abode that i printed. i just thought i would add them outside of the illustrations

abode logo work

2007-12-10T18:26:00.000-08:00

above is the logo for the abode ipod cases.
and then below you can see the process and other options

abode

2007-12-09T21:02:00.000-08:00

these are the abode ipod cases that i made and am selling. i designed all the patterns myself and printed them. here is a description of abode:
"iPods have become very personal. People bring their iPods everywhere they go. The iPods has become a home away form home. With this idea, Abode iPod cases have the qualities of home, so that the iPods as well as their cases can bring a comfort of home anywhere the owner goes. The fabrics and patterns are similar and inspired by the interiors of houses."

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these are the illustrations i did for abode. i took the patterns i made for the cases and put them into simple interiors or houses, which was the inspiration for them.

collage poster

2007-12-09T20:08:00.001-08:00

this is another old poster from sophmore year.

mojave desert

2007-12-09T20:05:00.000-08:00

i also embroidered on this as well after it was printed

only the helvetica survives

2007-12-09T19:27:00.000-08:00

these are two advertisements and a mailer for the font helvetica i did sophmore year. the idea is survival of the fittest. since helvetica can be found everywhere, the font would survive more than other fonts if fonts were alive. the above are a study or a collection someone would do of helvetica, as they do with shells, bugs, and bones.