Lehto Design

12/13/2025

12/13/2025

A logo I did from a while back. If you work hunched over at a desk all like I do, the Posture Plank is actually a lifesaver and you should go get one.

08/08/2024

During my time in Tennessee, I would often get asked where I was from. My accent made it obvious that I was not a born and raised in the south. Whenever the topic came up, I felt the need to explain where I came from. Over time, my explanation became a well rehearsed short story (a story which, by necessity, included the common two handed michigan gesture to indicate location).

At one point or another, during the conversation, the remote and scantly populated nature of the Upper Peninsula would come up and whenever it did, I would crack a tongue-in-cheek joke: “It’s a good place to be from!”, insinuating that I was better off anywhere else. I truly felt that I was better off anywhere else for a long while.

I only visited home one time over the span of 17 years until I moved back to Marquette in 2019. During my time here, I have only felt at home here a handful of times. Don’t get me wrong, Marquette is a beautiful place but in a lot of ways it is vastly different than the rest of the UP.

I’ve seen some promotional material that tries and ultimately fails to make the point that the only reason to put up with the bugs and snow and cold that are common to the UP is Marquette. I can’t help but disagree.

Sometimes I feel like this town thinks its s**t doesn’t stink like some of the less populated, less affluent areas of the UP but in truth it stinks just the same.

Here is a little love for my home town Newberry, Michigan. It’s a good place to be from.

06/09/2024

New Tee shirts in the shop!

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04/28/2024

Been kicking around this idea for a couple of weeks and I finally found some time to do it. Let me know how many easter eggs you find! (NO AI TOOLS WERE USED IN THIS DESIGN)

03/30/2024

“Clover-Land - This green empire is in the heart of the great lakes region and has vast opportunities to offer”

A recent logo project for .catalog

03/30/2024

Before most of us were born my grandpa Bill was in his twenties and was serving in the navy. He always had stories to tell about that time of his life and would probably like nothing more than to sit and share them with a fresh crop of ears. One of my favorite things he shared with me as a young child was this old navy saying that he taught all of us grandkids. “Red Sky at Morning, Sailors Take Warning. Red Sky at Night, Sailors Take Delight”

03/30/2024

I recently got the chance to design a couple of logos for the talented local country artist make sure you go check out his music and his brand new video too.

03/30/2024

My life is crazy busy. A by-product of being pulled in 9 directions at a time is that I’ll occasionally see a “call for designers” or some kind of design contest and I will spend an evening or two developing a concept without even looking at the constraints of the prompt. Needless to say, I jumped the gun on this call for designers but I really liked the work that I turned out anyway.

03/30/2024

I had an obsession with rack cards (maybe I still do) and a crippling fear of tornadoes as a child so I made a commemorative rack card for this years cross-country family jaunt.