Category: projects

Whiskey made in the Northwest? Yes! The family business at Mutiny Bay Distillery now has my illustration on their whiskey bottles. Thank you to Design Heavy for contracting me for my illustration skills, and compliments on his great packaging design. Also, thank you to the owners of Mutiny Bay Distillery for the honor of being a part of their branding. The illustration is pen and ink, done in the style of a 19th century etching. See more examples of my illustration work.

I visited the Mutiny Bay Distillery tasting room and tried out their 3 samples. My favorites are the two bottles pictured here: Palouse Gold Aged Wheat Whiskey and Sweet Lulu Whiskey-Based Liqueur. The first because of that 3 year aged caramel taste, and the second because I’m a little bit of a sweet tooth and like dessert quality of the vanilla tasting liqueur. I’m not an expert on whiskey, I just know that if you like whiskey, you need to support this small family business. They just got started this year, are good people, and make great whiskey!

Whidbey Island is a vacation stop for many in the summer time, and I was able to stop by the distillery because that same weekend my wife played harp at a wedding. My whole family went on the weekend get-away to experience beautiful Rosario Beach on Fidalgo Island, just north of Whidbey Island. Then we stopped at the cute towns of Coupville, Freeland (where Mutiny Bay Distillery is located), and Langley. Then, finished our loop by waiting in line for the Ferry back to the mainland.

For tasting times and where to buy Mutiny Bay Distillery’s whiskey, go to their contact page.

With all the tech businesses booming around us in Seattle, and my inability to understand half of what these businesses are doing, there is one business we all understand—COFFEE. Quarterly, I showcase a client that I’m really excited about what they are doing. This month it’s Boon Boona Coffee—owned and managed by Efrem Fesaha. We have a long working relationship where back in 2008 he came to me for a logo and then decided to put his project on hold. He came back to me in early 2016 to restart his Business Identity. Now Boon Boona is going strong. You can see Boon Boona Coffee in Seattle stores, coffee trade shows, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Design and development work I did for Boon Boona Coffee:

• Logo
• Packaging
• Website (up until June of 2017)
• eCommerce (up until June of 2017)

Boon Boona’s roasted coffee supports small farmers in Rwanda and Ethiopia, including an all women coop called Hingakawa Women’s Coffee. Boon Boona Coffee not only offers roasted coffee, what most of us are used to. Additionally, traditional to Ethiopia and Eastern Africa, he offers green coffee—unroasted coffee that you roast at home. Efrem gave me a personal tutorial on how to roast the coffee in a frying pan on the stove as it is commonly done in Ethiopian family’s homes today.

Support small businesses and East African coffee bean farmers. Please support Boon Boona Coffee.

Since 2011, Schildbach Design has worked with Richmond Beach Yoga, a yoga studio that offers classes, workshops and yoga teacher training. The work I’ve done for the business covers their entire identity from their business card, to their logo, and two generations of their website and online presence. I started first coding their website within the Concrete5, but abandoned the CMS due to it’s instability. In 2016, I developed a second website design for RBY in WordPress and the improvements are many. Now, the client has a stable site, that is easy to update themselves. (By the way, Concrete5 is even easier to update for a non-tech savvy client, but WordPress is so much lighter on it’s feet with faster page loading, and a versatile system that allows for any kind of customization.)

Richmond Beach Yoga looks forward to their Yoga Teaching Training, March 4th to June 17th. But, before that event, do not hesitate to try one of their classes if you live in the Seattle area. They are just north of Seattle, and have affordable prices and a wide variety of classes and quality teachers—from hatha yoga to vinyasa yoga to yin yoga to meditation classes. If I lived just a little closer, I’d be there all the time. Yoga is an integral form of my healthy lifestyle. It provides for me exercise, body health, mental health, and spiritual connection to the great unknown.