Author: BryCox (Admin)

Every year at this time, I give all my clients a Christmas CD with their orders, and this years album is absolutely fantastic!  I am excited for you all to get a copy.  I have not only finished the design work, but have the finished products back in my hands and love how they look and sound.

This is Wasatch Christmas, a Christmas CD that I design every year for one of my best friends, James Conlee, the producer of the project.  In fact it is a joint project of friends in many ways because the cover painting is by a friend of ours, James Christensen, a famous painter with Greenwich Workshops, and some of the tracks are by our other good friend, Ryan Shupe (Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand), as well as some tracks by James Conlee himself.

Here is how the album looks.  The name of the cover painting is, “Angels of My Village.”

Now there are other recording artists on the album, but my favorite tracks are by James and Ryan.

The absolute first thing I would do when you get this CD is to play track #7, Pie Jesu, recorded by James Conlee with the Prague orchestra.  It is a duet with James and an incredible boy soprano, and I believe that this is the last recording of this boy before his voice changed.  This track is so moving that it may bring tears to your eyes, and I am not exaggerating.  I find it to be emotional every time I hear it.  It is such an incredible recording and is so well handled, that it shows just how talented James Conlee is, not only as an incredible singer, but also with his producing abilities, bringing together so many talented people for one wonderful and moving piece.  For that reason it is symbolic really of the entire CD project.

If you don’t know James, he used to sing on Broadway, and is responsible for the yearly Wasatch Christmas concert series in Utah county.  This is now about the 10th album that I’ve designed for him including past Wasatch Christmas albums and his Sunday album — each one is so wonderful.  He puts his whole heart and soul into these projects and I’m very proud to be associated with him and to call him my friend.

So for all my holiday clients that are ordering this time of year, whether you get a large collection of wall portraits or even just reorder one small print, I am giving away a FREE Wasatch Christmas CD!  The cover painting is phenomenal, the music is phenomenal, and the whole production is worth owning!

See you all soon!

Last week I was hired to photograph Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina.  They were in town for an exclusive concert, and I was there to artistically document the concert and then create some studio portraits backstage.

Here’s one of the studio portraits of the two of them together…

And here’s a few from the concert itself.  One of Kenny Loggins…

and one of Jim Messina.

It was a fantastic show and I was proud to be apart of it.  It was all apart of a great fundraiser to raise money for children needing dental work provided by the Caring Foundation for Children.

I do a lot of business portraits for people, but it was really fun to photograph my uncle, Bob Cox.  He has reinstated his real estate license (something he used to do many years ago) and needed some new business portraits.

A lot of people tell us that we look alike, which I always like to hear.  There have even been times when I’ve been stopped on the street and asked if I’m Bob Cox’s son.

Anyway, I really liked the suit and finished the image as a nice, classic business portrait.

With this finished image, I designed up and printed his business cards.  Here is the finished card design.  I opted for a more artsy look, bold and light colors on black rather than the stuffy and traditional look of black type on white.  I finished them as a glossy card 4/4, with an extra layer of coating for a nice tactile feel and some real punch.

I’m excited with how they look.  If you are a business person and need a new portrait, give me a call.

– Bry