My Designer’s Notes include marketing tips, creative processes and design projects.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas from the Jenkins family! Enjoy these free downloads for your desktop, mobile, tablet and watch screensavers.
How to prepare for your brand photoshoot
If you’re thinking of booking a brand photoshoot or some headshots for your team, I got you all covered on the most important things to consider. I am a photographer turned designer business owner so I know these few things will go a long way for you!
Are you still learning?
Allow me to introduce you to my very own slow walk of Rip Wheeler from Yellowstone.
How to Design an Email Signature
A clean and easy-to-read email signature will make your brand look polished and cohesive - create your own with this easy step-by-step tutorial on how to design a professional email signature.
Referral Rewards
Friends, family and happy clients have been sending work my way. I try to reach out to tell you that I appreciate you supporting my small business but it never feels like it’s enough. Because most of you also happen to own your small business.
Support Small Business
Thank you for being here in this web space! Did you know that by just showing up here, you are supporting my business?
Design File Cheat Sheet
Congratulations, your branding is complete! Now what do you do with all these files?
Let’s make it as easy as possible and compare it to ingredients.
Top 10 Design Projects
A variety of branding packages and website designs made 2021 a very successful first year of being a self-employed graphic designer!
Client Spotlight: Kerri Ann Photography
One of the most personal logos I have ever designed, for local Minnesotan photographer Kerri Ann.
Finding beauty
Comedians artistically find the amusement in everyday moments. They spin that moment and deliver it back to us in a way we can relate and find it entertaining at the same time. In a split moment this thought of, “I never thought of it that way” almost makes us feel silly for not coming up with the joke ourselves.
Client Spotlight: Susie Larson
Susie Larson has a new Advent Devotional that is newly released for the 2021 Christmas season - we designed Christmas ornaments to compliment her new book.
Leave no stone left unturned
I saw the fork in the road ahead of me. One path would bring freedom but also uncertainty, the other path was stable but as a creative, I felt locked into a box.