This website is dedicated to show off my ad designs, a particular graphic speciality of mine, as well as a few of my other projects, freelance, and art work.

I didn't do many ads during our time in Austin, TX aside from some freelance. I mainly slaved away in the publishing mines doing delightfully dull proofreading and minor editing with light re-designs in what can only be described as the most searingly dull flex-time job on the planet. The people I worked with, however, were quite delightful. The last job with HRW was fabulously stimulating, but very draining. Going to meetings half the day and pounding out page layouts and translating french text to figure out what you're supposed to be designing leaves no time for Jill to be a dull girl. It'll suck your soul right out of your body and all those out of body experiences make you wish you were doing ad layouts instead.

I am accustomed to taking designs from fragile abstract concept
to thumbnail to computer to pre-press to print.

I have drawn, sketched, painted, built, improvised, mocked up, conceptualized, compromised, fussed over, tweaked, and art directed nearly every piece I've ever done all myself. Anything of mine that's not that tight or is a little too busy in my opinion involved some compromise or I only had five minutes to work on it. But in 100% of all cases, the client was so excited they could just pop wide open. That's what I live for, not just doing good design, but giving clients more than they thought they'd ever get, and giving them exactly what they didn't even know they wanted, and saving them money in the process.

It's all about making clients happy, and somewhere in there,
having a lot of fun doing that voodoo that I do.

Most of these ad samples were designed with some amount of compromise, primarily for newsprint in a weekly rag. I have zillions of ads, and these are just a small few. I have a lot of other samples from other jobs like postcards and catalogs from Hayes Marketing, but they're rather old, as well as samples from other freelance that I'm just not very fond of that was either blandly utilitarian or fraught with aesthetic injustice.

I'd say I was doing somewhere in the range of 50-100 ads per week
just at my branch office where I was the sole designer.

Even with so much to share, I have resisted the call of the great internet wastelands for years, but in the past year have made up for lost time by creating a Gallery Website for my paintings to keep people updated on my exhibitions (http://homepage.mac.com/dhincher), and also a co-opted website to test-market my art and collage designs on Cafe Press (http://www.cafepress.com/fairylandstudio). The grackle girl and squid head baby designs are top sellers and odd favs.