Bandwagon Graphiks

This post is going to be a little more personal this time. I have been trying to get back on the wagon over the past few weeks and sadly it feels like its been a losing battle. The wagon itself has been fine, April hasn’t been the most plentiful of months but after the rocket speeds of March – I suppose it was due. In February/March we began work on two major websites and branding campaigns, which consumed all of our time and kept growing. Now we are proud to announce the launch of Bandwagons first official foray into the land of web design.

MADINKDESIGNS.COM and AMAZING3DPOST.COM – Two completely different sites on wildly different budgets. Mad Ink started from scratch and A3DPost started with a template that we dismantled and put back together. Mad is an eCommerce apparel website that sells t-shirts and more for the dirt biker and desert rat. Amazing 3D Post is a new company specializing in 3D Editing and Post Production Finishing.

Take a look at the sites and supporting collateral in the various Wagon galleries.

Now for the personal material. I apologize for being so short with what the wagon has been up to, but frankly its been a very rough few weeks around here and the wagon is working on getting back on its wheels. Some of you may be familiar with our studio and others have never had the opportunity to visit, but last Friday we lost the company of our beloved studio cat Mickey.



It was a very sudden loss and I have been unable to focus on work and kicking design butt while she has been sick. About 3 weeks ago, I decided to take her into the vet to get her teeth checked out and see if all was well because she had lost some weight and wasn’t interested in her dry food anymore. It wasn’t her teeth, it was in fact nearly end stage kidney failure. It was a huge shock, she is full of energy and any client that visits has loved having her around because she was the best of the best. It didn’t matter who you were, she loved you.

After the diagnosis, we started intense treatments, IV fluids, prescription food, nausea meds, kitty pepto bismol, and while at first she was tolerating the treatments well, she deteriorated rapidly. It came down to me not wanting to prolong her pain, I could not watch her be in discomfort, and I could not watch her wither away. And so last Friday the 23rd at 1pm, we said goodbye to Mickey in the most humane way we could.

She has been my rock. Throughout all the years of moving around, starting the Wagon and facing all the obstacles – she was the one and only who was there and never complained.

It has been incredibly hard to pick back up where I left off, with all the vet appointments, treatments, and then wanting to spend the last bit of time I had left with her – the wagon was neglected. That may sound crazy to completely detach from life for a pet, but there are more important things in this world than work.

Today is the first day where I feel like I have been wagon-productive in 3 weeks. I’ve uploaded a ton of new work to the galleries and in time I hope to be back up to full speed. So my readers, I apologize for going AWOL, but we are humans over here with hearts, hearts that are broken.

I hope to hit May head on, so stay tuned for more love from the wagon.