Greetings!
I’m Parrish. I’m a Dad, Husband, and Graphic Designer, a creative type, with two athletic sons; I met my wife at an advertising agency, and we ran off and married on the beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We have a dog and live the good life in San Antonio, Texas. I’m watching my sons play a lot of Baseball, too.
I started writing about my journey watching my boys play Baseball this year. I created a look for it and started posting the stories. You can view them here. I’ve been concentrating on using handwritten custom type in my passion projects. Handwriting is one of the last remaining strongholds against the Robots. Let’s work together on adding custom handwritten type to your next project.
If you need affordable, high-quality graphic design services, consider Design for Digital Marketing (d4DM). I established this service with a personal touch, understanding the challenges digital marketing professionals face and aiming to bring their ideas to life through design. If you’re juggling multiple professional roles, I’m here to help lighten the load. Let’s start a conversation about how I can assist you.
I love graphic design printed on textiles and paper, so I started PRNTDxP to do just that. It was a passion play one month before the Pandemic began, and it’s continued to be a place for me to post fun designs. I love T-shirts. I got bit by the bug working at TEED Shirts in San Marcos, Texas, a long time ago. I’m a fan of a great T-shirt. PRNTDxP is in its Baseball Era right now—this is a period where I’m heavily inspired by the sport and all the games I’m watching in person. Check out my Baseball collections to see the designs. I’m working on turning the Roam and Rally Baseball posts I started at PRNTDxP into a stand-alone space to share my Baseball journey and things I’ve discovered. Stay tuned.
Check out my Design Portfolio on Adobe Portfolio. This is the best place to see the breadth of my work. You can also find relevant portfolio work at d4DM if you are looking for more examples.
Social Proof
If you need social proof that I’m not a robot, check out testimonials on d4DM or look me up on LinkedIn. You can always email me, and I can provide you with references.
Writing
I’ve also been writing more this year. Check out my blog, “The Old Man and His Tees,” or read my writing by scrolling down the page or head over to d4DM to view my blog posts there. I took Brendan Leonard’s “Write One Story Online Course” to start the year, and I produced this story. This course was a great way to jump-start my writing and journaling in 2025.
Connect
Let’s keep up with email. I’m open to talking about Graphic Design or Baseball anytime. I’m spending as much time as I can with family, constantly moving forward, and catching as many sunsets as possible. I believe in firm hand shakes, looking people directly in the eye, telling the truth, and not taking myself too seriously. If you are down with this vibe, then I know we can work together.
Cheers, and happy trails!
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Getting laid off is a winning proposition.
Imagine the shock when the entire corporate communications staff, except for me, was let go. Management told me to pack up and move out of our corner offices, which had a killer window view, into a new office space they carved out for me. And that ‘new office space ‘? It was a closet. Literally.
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Baseball is a lot like the communication business.
How many times have we, as professionals in the communication and marketing fields, sent a finished, wholly proofed top to bottom, printed, produced, distributed, or emailed a piece of collateral only to have the third customer receive it and inform you that you have a misspelling in the first paragraph? A misspelling in the first
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It’s always the little things.
If you are like me, you like to start the new year with a fresh perspective. Oftentimes, the best way to find this new perspective is to challenge myself physically. I joined Michael Easter’s 2% Manifesto Group on Substack this year. This community shares the philosophy that we can achieve more than we think, starting
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What makes some words sticky?
We rushed to the front as the lights dropped, Garrett (4) on my shoulders, Brody (7 ) hauled between Elena and me as Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros reached the stage. We were at El Cosmico in Marfa, Texas, to watch Sharpe, Mumford and Sons, and Old Crow Medicine Show perform on the “Railroad
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Strive to be memorable.
Carlos and I were walking into a Chamber breakfast one morning, hawking our business, Swirl, and doing our usual scouting of where to sit – we intentionally split up – when Carlos noticed a clown, yes, a fully dressed clown, sitting at one table. “I’ll sit there, ” he said, leaving me to sit across
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They named it Rush, which is a good thing in my book.
Create motion graphics in a snap with Adobe Premiere Rush. It doesn’t suck that they named it “Rush,” either. If you cut your teeth on web design in the early 2000s, I’m sure you crossed paths with Macromedia Flash, which Adobe acquired in 2005. Remember the good old days of Flash? After Apple dropped support
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Will Generative AI continue to bludgeon us to death with slop?
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder on the internet, Facebook released disturbing and hilarious AI profiles. After the expected backlash, our overlords at Meta pulled the release back but promised to return them soon. The proliferation of AI agents creating content is already happening, and the move to remove humans from the
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A book that changed my perspective last year.
When you stumble upon a book with handwritten notes and highlights, it’s like stumbling upon a stranger’s journal. You can’t help but feel a sense of intimacy, as if you’ve been given a personal connection to the previous owner’s thoughts and feelings. The book that changed my perspective last year was ‘Coach, Lessons on the
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A new company built on solid fundamentals needed a strong identity system.
After three plus decades in the wealth management business, Glen Welch needed a logo for his new business venture. Welch Wealth Management was created as a way to help clients bridge their current investment and retirement accounts into a wholistic plan that encompasses the seven pillars of true wealth. The “W” served as the perfect
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PLSTIC GRSS: Re-using Remnants
I came home one day and discovered the contractors next door were wrapping up a putting green install at my neighbor’s house. I introduced myself and told one of the contractors that if he had any “scraps” left over that he could pile them in my drive-way. When I got home the next day, there