Laura Catoe | Portfolio

Gadsden Symphony Orchestra

2012-02-16T14:04:00.000-06:00

The Gadsden Symphony Orchestra’s winter concert is this Sunday, which serves as a reminder that I never posted the promotional materials I did for the GSO last year.

I made a tri-fold brochure/mailer that detailed the season’s concerts and had a form to purchase tickets or make a donation.

I also made some ads, such as this one, which I think ran in an issue of Gadsden Style.

Gryphon Engineering logo

2012-02-03T14:04:00.000-06:00

Logo design for Gryphon Engineering.

Happy Chinese New Year

2012-01-23T14:07:00.001-06:00

A year of scrapbooks

2012-01-02T15:12:00.000-06:00

I made it a goal to do a monthly scrapbook page for each kiddo in 2011. Mission complete!

Finishing out a year of photo galleries

2011-12-16T15:52:00.001-06:00

In November, putting together the winter issue of Gadsden Style + some vacation time = no photo gallery. But this month, I have two!

Papermaking at Gaston

Visit the Gadsden Times photo gallery here.

Traveling Tales

Visit the Gadsden Times photo gallery here.

(More galleries linked in this post.)

Love Without Boundaries' gift cards

2011-11-30T10:20:00.000-06:00

LWB needed a redesign for their gift cards. We made one set to use year-round and a holiday set. A few examples:

And while we were at it, we re-did the memorial gift card, as well:

My favorite part of designing these cards is scrolling through the LWB photostream and trying to find an image that captures the viewer and conveys the heart of the program. (And of course I managed to work my daughter Zoe in one – via her preschool Christmas party!)

Comics header redesign

2011-11-23T13:39:00.006-06:00

Years ago, I asked my executive editor if I could redesign the header on our then comics page. He said no, because they were printed out of house and we had no control over the header.

And now, about ten years later, he came back and said "hey, I need you to redesign the header for the comics page."

Do all projects come around in time?

Here was the design mine replaced (not the same one of yore that I wanted gone, though)...

CM Saunders book covers

2011-11-17T15:01:00.000-06:00

After I worked with Christina on her law firm logo, I did a couple of book covers for her. My attempt was to give them a similar feel but for each to have its own personality — the author is the same but the story is different.

As an in-joke to self, I used one of the fonts that is core to the Gadsden Times print product (Miller Display) since Christina used to work on the copy desk.

Fire Bearer, Esquire is available for Kindle on Amazon.

Women in Small Business

2011-10-29T14:10:00.000-05:00

October is Women's Small Business Month. My coworker Sarah Dudik set a goal to photograph and interview four of the (many!) women business owners downtown.

But October is also football season, and Sarah is rather busy shooting games. (And magazine assignments for the winter issue of Gadsden Style.) So, she recruited me to write the stories.

Then our editors decided to publish them on Saturdays and this October has five of those... so we expanded our series to cover five women who own businesses downtown.

First up was Michelle Bailey, owner of the fabric store Material Girls.