When all is said and done, the most important ongoing project I've been involved in is my own character. After an extensive boardroom meeting with myself, I've identified my three greatest selling points:
I've always been passionate about creating things that don't exist yet. I've dabbled in a lot of creative processes and I enjoy the bulk of them. I love design most because it's so multifaceted.
I don't know it all like the back of my hand. I really enjoy it though, and I have a brain that can grasp new programming languages pretty quickly.
I get along well with everybody, and I like to have everyone around me enjoying themselves.
A hypothetical clothing brand. It's geared toward people like me who just want to cover themselves, be casual, and look great. The design reflects this down-to-earth yet classy approach.
The finished product in all of its glory. Bag, tag designs, and receipt design are shown.
I had a unique idea for the tags. There is a generalized outer covering with an insert that's particular to each item of clothing. The insert is removed and the back is scanned to see if the customer gets a randomly sweet discount on their purchase. Groovy!
Before the physical object came into being, I had an idea. Need proof? Here it is!
I had the awesome opportunity to develop a promotional motion graphic trailer for this sweet graphic novel written by Robert Zappia and illustrated by Lee Wiley.
I took the Illustration from the book provided by the illustrator and separated it into layers, giving the trailer a stereoscopic quality in the motion.
I animated typography in segments of the trailer. It turned out really sweet.
The sequence I spent the most time on is possibly the end tag showing the title of the book and its release date.
Motion is really my favorite design medium. Why make something stationary when you can make it move? I've done a number of projects, including these.
A short presentation explaining what being a graphic designer means to me. My teacher and classmates told me it reminded them of a "legit PBS commercial."
Being a Nintendo fanboy, I made an end tag with their logo. Jump Mario, jump!
A hypothetical title sequence made as though CS Lewis' masterpiece The Screwtape Letters had been adapted in film. It even features an all-star cast! If you haven't read The Screwtape Letters, it's a good one.
A hypothetical line of robot toys. I've always had a fascination with robots.
A figurine I sculpted in oil clay then cast in resin. It's painted with acrylic and prismacolor. The design is actually inspired by a weird drawing I made when I was a kid.
Behold the majesty of this rusty boxing champion.
No product line would be complete without packaging, so I made a box for it. Although theres not a lot of room to move in there, Rocky finds it liveable.
Munny is a do it yourself vinyl figurine made by KidRobot. I designed one based on Maxwell from the Scribblenauts games by 5th Cell.
Shown here are two Maxwell figurines and their packaging.
Here's a more detailed view of the back of the box. I created the illustration here based on the visuals from the games as well as some of 5th Cell's concept art.
I practice responsible design by actually thinking about the end result before starting a project.
I'm not sure why I do it to myself, but I absolutely love hot sauce. Having realized that there are absolutely no well-designed hot sauce stores online, I decided to design a working concept for one. I've partially developed this website.
This is the page that greets users. Since the hot sauce market is so eclectic, I decided my concept should be like a "fair" where all kinds of different sauces are sold. The design is inspired by vintage fair posters, put together in that vintage-modern style that's been popular lately.
A concept for the hot sauce listings and the system users would use to search for hot sauces they would want to buy.
I also made and coded some administrative pages where hot sauces can be added, deleted, and edited server-side.
I am experienced in web design and front-end web development. These are some other random projects I've worked on.
A working website I designed about cybercrime and computer viruses. It aggregates content from some hand-picked RSS feeds and reformats it nice and clean.
A design for the front page of one of my favorite bands, CUT/COPY. The visual aesthetic is largely inspired by the cover of their sophomore album "In Ghost Colours." Check them out, they're awesome.
Same old zen garden, but dressed up all classy in a new outfit I made with my sweet CSS skills.
A stereoscopic poster advertising Apple's iPod Touch. I based it on Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you've never seen the movie, you probably should... Just saying.
The final poster, printed and hung with pride.
It's a stereoscopic design made out of matte board, cardboard, paper, and 100-percent-real dirt from the great outdoors. I then photographed it and added some finishing touches (like the sky) in Photoshop.
A detailed sketch of the stereoscopic set. You'll notice a few differences between the final composition and this concept.
