News. Patrick

We recently had the pleasure of attending the groundbreaking New Aging Conference, which we had the opportunity to produce the branding and marketing materials for.

We're hard at work here on a complete update to ultravirgo.com. In the meantime, we've started putting some of our recent portfolio pieces over on the Behance network as well. Go take a look at our profile - you'll find a few of our most recent projects that haven't made it to our own site yet, along with some of our best-known work. And we'll love you forever if you click "Appreciate" on each project, and leave us some comments!

I'd like to think that one of Apple's biggest announcements recently is one of the smallest, most overlooked ones. I'm loving that they just came out with a well-thought-out AA battery charging system. Not that I need a new one. But Apple has a way of making rabid fanboys out of even the simplest things. If they can successfully make rechargeable batteries seem cool to the tech set - like they do with almost everything they touch - it could be one of the best things they have ever done for the environment.

Since designing "green" is all the rage, we just launched our greenest web site yet for Legolas Media. It includes kelly, hunter, lime and mint. Not to mention our favorite: chartreuse.

We've been doing a lot of work lately gearing up for the New Aging Conference at UPenn in October (including the web site and this brochure). But I really love what the UPenn students did with these makeover videos: Aging 60 years in 60 seconds.

I was Googling myself recently. While I failed to find a copywriter looking for work, what I did uncover is even better. Apparently our work was included in the 2005 Graphis Design Annual book (anyone have a copy?). It's always nice to find prestigious international awards that you didn't even know you had won!

I just received the invitation to my sister's wedding, which we of course lovingly designed - complete with bright colors, clear foil stamping, and a diecut logo. Sure, most weddings don't need a logo, but when the couple's first initials can be combined to evoke an infinity symbol, it makes the perfect graphic to represent the rest of their lives together.

Looking to clarify the impact of health reform on insurance numbers, we decided to explain it in a way that we could understand. So we made a graphic.

The six-book sampling set we did for Hunter Douglas and DMD Insight won an American Package Design Award.