“You Can’t Take It With You” poster

My daughter is in her high school’s theatre program. Often, when she is cast in a school play or musical, I am approached to design the poster, programs, and cast t-shirts for the show. The first time I was given this task was for the 2016 production of You Can’t Take...

We Win APD Award!

Mary Lankester Clearly Creative is proud to announce that, in partnership with Alizah Epstein of Epstein Creative, our MyselfBelts illustration has won the American Package Design Award! This design was one of 350 winners out of over 2,000 entries, and I...

Be Mentally Strong

I made this up for my kids for their upcoming graduation, and thought perhaps others may appreciate it. It is available as a pdf download (11″ x 17″) BE MENTALLY STRONG downloadable pdf  And if you would like to comment on this, please “like”...

Leave Behind

Keeping within a “Clearly Creative” theme, I created this leave behind with a small clear envelope that can hold postcards showing a small sampling of my work. It also has a clear pocket on the front that stores my business card.

New Business Cards

My new business cards arrived! I’m so excited to start meeting other creatives in my new town. I have these to offer prospective clients and now I look forward to designing a leave behind. Now if only it will stop snowing!

SAT—exterior sign

The Sandy Actors Theatre is a regional community live performance theater located in Sandy, Oregon—an outer suburb of Portland. Not having a location on either of the two main traffic thoroughfares, much less any street presence whatsoever, their primary source of...

First Post

Hello, welcome to my blog and my first post! As they say, it’s never too late to begin. I will be posting about projects I’ve worked on, current projects and my love of design in general. Thanks for checking it...