Overture Technologies identity
A series of draft logos for Overture Technologies, a financial services company whose offerings include mortgage processing and school financial aid. Direction from client: “Overture means better decisions.”
The green and orange are legacy colors for the company. Fonts in this series include Aldus and Avant Garde.
Thanksgiving card
A personal Thanksgiving invite designed as a two-sided postcard. The first version reads: “This year will be nothing like last year …” Font used is Optima, a nice san-serif with the appearance of a serif font. Best of both worlds in a way. The second version has zebrawood and futura as fonts. Both versions are intended to be playful and appropriate for the season.
Scraphouse: San Francisco
Green Planet Films wanted a simple one sheet html page to announce the new composting mandate in San Francisco and to showcase the episode of Scraphouse featuring the City by the Bay.
Eurosoft
Eurosoft came to us and wanted to build a new version of their web site, to coincide with their restructure as a company that transforms paper processes into digital (they were previously an IT and professional staffing company that did technical consulting in this arena, Stark Holdings now handles all the staffing aspects). The project managers wanted the marketing department to be able to easily maintain the web site content and this WordPress mockup was born.
Ultimately, this custom built theme would’ve incorporated their Twitter feed, Facebook updates as well as results from their shared Google Reader feed. This project is currently tabled.
pda, fall 2009 collateral
pda is a night of dj’ed electro, indie, retro music and the kitchen sink at Elysium that happens semi-regularly. Its title is based on the song by Interpol.
For this design, I wanted a bright piece that would stand out in a dark nightclub. I wanted the turntable/mixing graphic to look like what mixing sounded like, using the grooves of the record to splice into one another and then the dj’s arms to resemble turntable arms, almost robotic. But simple yet warm.
The type used for the logo and body text are Chunk Five (Adobe) and Skia.
Event info:
- doors at 9:30, free before 10
- Sept 25, 2009
- Elysium, 705 Red River
- $3 cover, 21+
Loves, Mariessa tshirt comp
Designing a unisex t-shirt for Loves, Mariessa posed an interesting challenge — after all, her name has the word love in it and hearts in her logo. Since the brand is a boutique fashion line, it needed it to be edgy (my favorite descriptive word), bright and cool. I had my work cut out for me.
Turns out Mariessa didn’t like any of these — she’s going with something more distressed and more about clothing construction, a dress form and sewing machine parts — but I liked the execution of integrating hearts with a larger concept about either 1) a tough act or 2) big talk to make it more likely that a boy would wear it.
poster for the Long Now
Poster for the theater show the Long Now by the Shrewd Productions, opening May 21st at the Blue Theatre. Written and directed by Beth Burns, this story considers the turbulent nature of time, and the impossible hope of capturing a perfect present.
The challenge in this poster design was creating a piece that was at once technical (Time is one of the characters in show), organic with a bit of danger that looms just on the edges. We went through several iterations — one was too whimsical, one was too serious — before settling on this one. I think that the paper texture that I used for the background works well in the scope of the show, the puppet that plays Time has that same kind of rough hew to it, projecting on a canvas sheet.
The font for the text is Gotham. The background is a found schematic and I drew the birdcage, tracing and referencing several photos online. The girl and the bird are stock.
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logo identities, new age
Three logo identities designed for several new age-y companies. New age-ish? New age-like? I think you know what I mean.
Fonts include Futura, Gotham and Helvetica.
poster for Cherry Bomb, the movie
Promo posters for the gritty indie film Cherry Bomb — not the one with Ron Weasley — about an exotic dancer who exacts revenge on a group of men who were involved in her rape. It’s due out in 2011.
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