Kids Helping Kids 2026 was a success!
Kids Helping Kids is an event that Advocates for Children puts together each year, encouraging students from Cartersville Elementary to have fun while supporting children and families in crisis in their own community. In total, CES helped Advocates for Children raise over $24,000 this year! We have so much fun [...]
Why Good Design Often Goes Unnoticed (And Bad Design Doesn’t)
Good design is quietly doing its job. When design works well, it informs, directs, and influences people without calling attention to itself. It makes experiences feel natural and intuitive. Most of the time, people only notice how something looks in passing, while the thoughtful decisions behind it fade into the [...]
Red Door Food Pantry Mardi Gras Fundraiser
This year, we proudly sponsored Red Door Food Pantry's Mardi Gras fundraiser with an in-kind donation of graphic design work. Lara J Designs is one of the longest sustaining sponsors of the event at 7 years in a row! We designed print materials for the event, including posters, event [...]
Lara J Designs is a Finalist for 2025 Small Business of the Year
The Lara J Designs team is honored to be one of the top three finalists for the 2025 Small Business of the Year award! Each year, the Cartersville-Bartow Chamber grants this award to a small business that has made significant impacts in our community. This year, the finalists were [...]
Lara speaks at CES for Career Day
Our owner, Lara Jeanneret, enjoyed speaking with over 200 Cartersville Elementary School Students today about what it means to be a graphic designer! We are so happy to be invited back again this year to see all of the young students light up with the excitement of a career possibility [...]
What Your Packaging Says About Your Product
What Your Packaging Says About Your Product Before anyone reads a label, compares prices, or considers ingredients, packaging is already communicating. In just a few seconds, design choices signal quality, price point, lifestyle, and who a product is meant for. Packaging tells a story at a glance. It can [...]
Why Your Logo Needs More Than One Version
When people think about logo design, they often picture a single image. In reality, a well designed logo is a flexible system that needs to work across many formats, materials, and situations. Most clients do not see everything that goes into building a logo that functions well in the [...]
Sweet Deliveries: 2025 Lara J Designs Holiday Theme and Recipe Reveal
When the holiday season finally arrives, the Lara J Designs team loves finding creative ways to send a little joy out into the world. This year’s holiday card theme is all about the simple magic of mail: stamps, envelopes, and the anticipation of something special arriving just for you. To [...]
1990’s Graphic Design
The 1990s was a decade in design marked by diversity, chaotic experimentation, and rapid change. Multiple visual languages coexisted, often in direct opposition, reflecting a culture caught between analog pasts and digital futures. Bright, playful forms associated with Memphis design brushed up against the rough, anti-aesthetic impulses of grunge. Utopian [...]
The Difference Between Raster and Vector Graphics and Why It Matters
Digital images generally fall into two categories: raster and vector. They may appear similar on the surface, but they’re built in completely different ways, and those differences shape how they behave at any size. If you’ve ever noticed an image turning blurry when enlarged or wondered why some graphics stay [...]
