Ruckus Creations

15/03/2022

Coming Soon: Ruckus Creations Design Studio

19/05/2021

These flyers are in the process of going up around South Minneapolis. Feels good doing street-level promo again--a nice walk around the various neighbourhoods and interacting with local business owners and workers.

26/04/2021

Thumbnail sketches for possible illustrated design elements for one page flyers, with special focus on the EZ-Print designs that are designed to be easily printed on a desktop printer.

23/04/2021

A lot of basic structural things happening in the last little bit--lots of writing in notebooks and sketching in sketchbooks--to literally visualise the company brand promise and locate the customer identity of South Minneapolis. Some possibly tantalizing tidbits from the week: "vintage UFO" and "horses are rock'n'roll."

I will leave you with this: another victory celebration from long ago and far away that is a bouquet of sentient beings from across the galaxy.

Tag Yourself: I'm that Ewok having a Moment on the far left.

18/04/2021

Spring cleaning. Updating all the things.

Here's all my sample flyers, edited to say "Ruckus Creations."

07/04/2021

Here's another creation for sale: two pieces of refinished antique furniture. They are both classic ladies' furniture and therefore make a nice set together: a vanity with a hideaway top and side drawer with the original burled oak veneer lovingly hand-restored, and a solid cherry pedestal knitting/sewing caddy. I'm asking for $200 for the caddy and $500 for the vanity but will knock $100 off the price for those who are willing to pick up the items themselves.

Right now there are some beautiful unique high-quality pieces out there in the marketplace that are 80 to 100 years old that, with a little TLC in the form of expert refinishing, could well last another 100 years. This is a quality of hardwood that just isn't available anywhere else--there are so few old growth trees left in the world and they are better left growing than turned into furniture. Far better from a sustainability standpoint to keep heritage pieces like these available in the marketplace and in use in people's homes.

19/03/2021

Ruckus is only about a week old and we're rebranding already! Well, okay, just slightly changing the name to account for all the other things besides marketing I/we can, will, and currently do: upcycled/redesigned/ furniture and jewelry, all-purpose creative repurposing, illustration, murals, et cetera and so forth.

For Lo, the Lady of the Lake held her magic saber aloft and decreed that on this day, your once and future creative Agency, Ruckus, shall henceforth be known as Ruckus Creations.

Description

16/03/2021

15/03/2021

Who is Ruckus Creations? Well, we are a brand new sole proprietorship of Sarah Marie Nicolosi with technical and moral support from Mr. Nicolosi and our two cats, Thoth (the gray one) and Kira (the fluffy one). I am a differently abled creative professional with ambitions of one day being able to not only have a special savings account just for auto repair (I'm weird like that), but also have enough business to be able to hire more differently-abled designers who either share my quirky sense of humour or are at least patient enough to put up with it.

15/03/2021

Ah, the classic letter-size flyer--perfect for community billboards, community newspaper stuffers and other places in your neighbourhood where people post info about their local business. This is an EZ-Print flyer design, and therefore has a white background, contains a combination of hand-drawn and photographic elements and costs a flat rate of $290. Nothing says "local" like a hand-drawn flyer AND a local zip code, so when someone asks you "Are you local?"--have no fear, the answer is "yes!"

14/03/2021

"Hi, I'm Thoth, and I'm distractingly cute. Now that I have your attention....why not get a FREE email consultation TODAY to answer your burning questions about how Ruckus Creations can help YOUR small business reach more customers?"