Happy Holidays 2010

I love designing a holiday card every year and this years was quite a feat. I wanted to do more than just the ambiguous "Happy Holidays" but somehow still create a card for everyone. So I put together Festivus, Christmas, Hanukkah, Navidad, and Holidays each with their own positive expression and then cut the words up so the illustrations in the card could be mixed and matched. The result is you can celebrate everything! They are 4-color process on 65# Cover French's Parchtone Mist with A7 French's Poptone Blue Rasberry envelopes! Only 50 cards were made so if you got one Enjoy!

U is for U-Bend!

U is up at Alphabattle!

Arsenic & Old Lace

A new poster design on my site! :) A mixture of whimsical typography and clean illustration, which make up much of my personal style are used to create this poster for the play Arsenic & Old Lace. Arsenic & Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. This is not a client project but is my interpretation of how it could be done and was developed for a series of samples I'll be sending to art directors.

T is for Time

T is for Time :) Now up for Alphabattle!

R & S

With my work on my Halloween costume I fell a bit behind on my lettering and missed out on R. I went ahead with it since it felt odd to not do so. So here is R and S. You can see all the others over at Alphabattle!


R is for Ribbon!


S is for Smoke!

My lettering is getting more and more narrative as this goes on, that is something I'm really enjoying! :)

Q

Q is for the Queen of Hearts! :) Check out the rest of the letters over at Alphabattle!

Alice in Wonderland

I'm a big fan of Alice in Wonderland and felt it would make a great addition to a pitch of samples for art directors. This is not a client project and never took place but is my interpretation of how it could be done. It is 2 posters, the program cover, and a shirt design for the staff. I set this fictitious project with the Port Tobacco Players, they are an awesome local theater of volunteers that do great work.

P is for Pen

P is up at LetterCult. Enjoy!

O

O is up at LetterCult. I was originally trying to go for something that looked like lace but in the end it felt more like porcelain.

N is for kNot!

N is up over at LetterCult's Alphabattle. Enjoy!

Alphabattle L & M

Gotten a little bit behind on my blogging that should be remedied with my switch to FT freelancing and FT teaching. I know it sounds weird to leave a steady gig for 2 FT jobs and some how have more time but trust me it is true.



Light me up an L :)



Kept thinking of condiments :)

K is Killer

K is up at LetterCult :) Check it out!

Marian Bantjes

She is as always inspirational and amazing. Thanks for the dedication and love Marian :)

J is for...

Bet you can't guess my inspiration...HAHA. Check out all the other cool J's over at LetterCult.

Give A Damn

I recently finished a run of my new Give A Damn posters which you can check out here. This poster was initially inspired by a statement I saw saying "Design like you give a damn." I thought of creating this poster so that each person could make it their own personalized motivational poster and put in what they give a damn about in the area above the words. It is custom lettering and my Atreyu typeface below. Silk screened with gunmetal metallic ink on 65# Cover French's Pop-Tone Lemon Drop.

I, i captain!

i is up over at LetterCult's AlphaBattle :) Check it out.

On My Mark Unleash H!

H is up on AlphaBattle! Check it out at LetterCult

Dribbble Dis

So I love the idea of Dribbble. Especially since it plays upon my idea that design needs to be more about community over competition, sharing ideas and inspirations rather than worrying about others stealing them. As an educator I find it to be really bad in the heart of design education so I encourage my students to share and share alike. It doesn't matter it someone has the same idea as you, they won't execute it the same way as you because they are NOT you. That being said I decided to dribbble here a bit, since well...I don't have a dribbble account (you need to be invited, oh well someday maybe :] )


A new poster/shirt print illustration. Enjoy!

F is FUN!

F is up on LetterCult! Go check out the cool and fun work from lots of different letter artists :)

ALPHABATTLE!

LetterCult has the E's up and running go check them out here. You can join in too :)