This was done in a couple minutes as an idea for a project. I’m going another direction now so it’s a toss away. It’s no secret I’m a fan of the 8-bit look though, and the old green LCDs bring a nostalgic tear to my eye, so don’t be surprised if I do something more with this.

There was a well-intentioned but short-lived graphic design club here at Winthrop for a while. One of the things we did to try and promote design was to let a different member design each weeks poster. This only fell to me once and it was fairly close to the beginning of the club’s run so I tried to promote the community aspect of joining the club.

Also, Legos are the bomb.

I did this poster for a Facebook event (how very tech-savvy of me) hence no need for a lot of info. I think the poster speaks for itself anyhow. We celebrated three birthdays over the course of two nights.

Geoff says I’m self-centered because I do a lot of self-portraits. I think he could be on to something.

My camera is broken so no good photos for a while. Instead I’ll link to the flickr page where all my in-progress cell phone pics reside (a lot of which I already tweeted so there might not be much new here).

The photo-set can be seen here.

Client (fictional): kik stnd
Assignment: Branding and packaging of three products

They make shoes and shoe-related accessories.

This is how I generally work on a typographic logo. I sketch out some quick ideas—directions I’d like to explore. Once I’m feeling good about a few I’ll type out the word(s) in Illustrator and see how a bunch of fonts work. I’ll usually have a page full of different fonts but here I’ve narrowed it down to just one (not necessarily my final choice).

Then I play around.

I’ll try to make my original ideas materialize but I often find myself heading in new directions (not necessarily good ones but any experimentation is helpful). Sketching is wonderful but once I have the actual type sitting there, like building blocks on my screen, I can see possibilities that I didn’t see before.

None of the ideas above are finished. The final might be something completely different.

I was going to post a magazine layout I did last year but apparently I’m missing the fonts, so until I find them again here’s the illustrations I made for said layout. They’re all based on images I found online and if anyone thinks they violate fair usage please tell me so we can sort it out (in other words I’d rather not get sued).