We’ve all said it at one time or another. “Just this once (fill in the blank).” My wife said it once after returning home from work to a *ahem* less than tidy house (in my defense, our two-year-old helped in the untidying…).

Anyway, her comment gave me an idea: The “Just This Once” Cleaning Company. Their motto? “Because, just this once, you’d like to come home to a clean house!” This, of course, lead to the formation of no fewer than four separate corporate entities all falling under the umbrella of the Just This Once Jack of All Trades Concern whose corporate mantra is, “because, just this once, you’d like someone else to do it for you!”

In short, this most useful packet of coupons became a Christmas gift to my wife and a fun design exercise for me. I was inspired by Depression-era ad slogans and Monopoly money (as the color pallet suggests). My father, upon hearing of my idea, thinks I should sell these…

I recently donated some time to help out the choir department at my old high school. It seems, they had a trailer that needed prettying-up. So, I did what I do and designed some vinyl graphics for it. I based the design around their existing choir logo and the musical theme. The vinyl application, itself, was expertly provided by Kris at DE-Signs with the promise that I never again design something so complicated to carry out in that medium. I must say after seeing the amount of work that went into carrying out my design, I must agree. Sometimes, the hardest thing to keep in mind while designing something on-screen is how it will physically be made manifest. Oy! Sorry, Kris!