Check out the product on their website They photographed the page my quote is on! Click to view it larger. Photo Credit goes to Brand New
A Brand New sketchbook!
I got my ‘mystery product’ from Brand New today. It is a miniature sketchbook to continue sketching logos. I, along with the folks at Brand New believe strongly that great design starts with a sketch. The edges of each page contain a quote from various designers who contributed to this blog post on June 11, […]
My thoughts on design to be published
I got an email today from someone named Armin Vit. I was hovering over ‘mark as spam’ until I read the subject line. Brand New Mystery Product Now, for some reason this caught my attention as not being exactly spam (don’t ask me why). So I opened it. If I have contacted you it means […]
Blackcat Billboard Ideas
I’m currently working on designing a billboard for fredericktown school district – it’s a project meadow heights church is doing for the school. First I had to re-illustrate the low resolution blackcat that I was provided with. There’s gotta be a high-res version floating around somewhere – now I have my own – and it only […]
Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Jobs, Print Design, The Design Process, This Week in Design, Typography, Website Design
This Week in Design
MEADOW HEIGHTS CHURCH ‘REMEMBER’ MESSAGE SERIES Another message series! I’ll have another one to post in two weeks. This one was a borrowed set of graphics from LifeChurch.tv. What is borrowed is the glass image and ‘remember’ logo. The rest is a unique design that fits the Meadow Heights ‘style’. It’s funny that Meadow Heights […]
Branding, Creative Improv, Design Concept/Ideas, Inspiration, My Life, The Design Process, Website Design
Creative Improv’ing
I’ve spent the last four months working on starting my own freelance business known as Creative Improv. It is a unique collaboration between myself and Michael, but also might include more folks in the future depending on the specific project (photographers & programmers). Michael and I would always tell each other, “you know we should start a design business”. Well […]
Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Editorial Design, Internships, My Life, Print Design, Redesign, The Design Process
A Summer of Work all in a Magazine
from left – Home Storage Solutions magazine cover, ‘Stack Your Storage’ magazine spread, Table of Contents A few days ago I received a package in the mail. The package was from Dave Stone at Workbench Magazine. It contained the magazine that I spent all summer conceptualizing, branding, designing and redesigning. I had so much anticipation during the past […]
Branding, Clients, Creative Improv, Design Concept/Ideas, Illustration, The Design Process, Website Design
unique artist. unique art. unique ink.
I would never have guessed that of all places, Fredericktown, MO would be home to a really awesome illustrator like Tim at Unique Ink. Michael Goldsmith and I teamed up to create a truly ‘unique’ website for Unique Ink. They offer screen printing/poster design/vinyl lettering and a bunch of other stuff. His artistic style is […]
Politics & Effectively Using the Web (part five)
In part five, I take a look how Obama is getting out the vote and viral advertising. I’ve decided to change this post slightly from what I described earlier. I’d like to focus purely on Obama and his various websites and viral advertising. YesWeCanSong.com The first time I had ever heard of the term ‘viral advertising’ […]
Bad design by design, Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Politics, Redesign, Usability, Viral Advertising, Website Design
Politics & Effectively Using the Web (part four)
In part four, I take a look at the recent website redesign by John McCain and compare it to his previously all black website. Beautiful Design I believe I’ve said this on my blog before. This presidential campaign has largely been about change. Most significantly, a change from really horrible design in political campaigns to truly […]