Xmas Unwrapped 2007

Xmas Unwrapped 2007

Collateral design for Shrewd Productions’ annual burlesque Christmas show in 2007. The font used was Futura.

posted Nov 2007 in collateral, concept, print design, typography - permalink

chowbaby! flyer

chowbaby flyer

Flyer design for chow baby!, gourmet vegetarian and vegan food made from fresh ingredients by two chefs in Austin, Texas.

posted Jun 2007 in collateral, print design, typography - permalink

overwhelming underdogs collateral

overwhelming underdogs collateral

Collateral designs for a one-man show with multiple characters.

posted Jan 2007 in collateral, illustration, print design, typography - permalink

Stillborn

About six months ago, my friend Monika emailed me, wondering if I was still in Austin. She’d been talking to a group of theatre people and everyone else in this group insisted that I’d moved to New York.

Now, I know that I’ve been less than active in theater scene lately, but I didn’t know that I’d vanished in many people’s minds. Fast forward to a few months ago when Ms. Bustamante asked me to do the sound design of her play, Stillborn.

I was also lucky enough to do the visual design (poster, postcard, etc.).

Shrewd Productions presents Stillborn

I’ll be honest, the sound design kicked my butt. There were many nights this week that I stayed up way too late working on various pieces and effects. But, and I suppose that this is the most important part, I learned so much. Keep it simple because the simplest solution is always the best.

(Thanks, Jim for the FM radio transmitter loan.)

Stillborn: a bedtime story by Monika Bustamante
Directed by Andrea Skola
Running Thurs-Sat, Oct 5-28. Thursdays are Pay What You Can.
Tickets: $15, $13 ACOT/ASW
For reservations, call 512-535-6643. Cash/check only.

posted Oct 2006 in collateral, print design, typography - permalink

ASW Primer Pasos designs

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Collateral design for Austin Script Works’ Primer Pasos program. One-color job, the font used throughout was Gotham.

posted May 2006 in asw, collateral, illustration, print design, scriptworks, typography - permalink

Halloween Hullaballoo

Halloween Hullaballoo

Postcard for White Mountain Foods 15th Halloween party. I really like the alliteration of Hullaballoo.

The font for this card is Gill Sans. The bats were drawn in Illustrator and re-purposed from a bat dingbats font.

posted Oct 2005 in collateral, illustration, print design, typography - permalink

FronteraFest 2005

FronteraFest 2005

For the last few months, I’ve been working on the graphic design for FronteraFest 2005. During this time, I worked through several different concepts with the festival organizers. Above is the first draft of the final concept.

Because it’s the 12th anniversary of FronteraFest, we wanted something to do with the number 12, such as a dozen eggs. Notice the tagline, which at this point was, Expect the Unexpected.

In the next draft, the tagline changed to, Freshness Guaranteed. I tried to keep the egg carton illustration true to life by keeping the text on the carton, but in the end we decided it was too hard to read. The farmscape horizon line also changed color because it competed too much with the information in the forground. The hand also changed because someone thought it looked too creepy.

Pictured above is the final design, as it was sent to the printers.

I made more segments of sunshine, added more shades of red, flipped the farmscape, and rendered the text without perspective, not on the egg carton. The tagline has also been changed again, Guaranteed Fresh. And though I love the regular style of Zebrawood (the more carnival looking letters) of the second draft, we settled for the fill style. Legibility and all.

A few days before it had to be at the printers, I realized that it bore a slight resemblence to the cover of one of my favorite albums this year, Funeral by the Arcade Fire (see album art). This resemblance, absolutely unintentional, is interesting because I think it demonstrates how our brain processes, stores, and manifests information without ourselves being conscious of it.

posted Dec 2004 in collateral, illustration, print design, typography - permalink

Kirk Smith sticker

Kirk Smith sticker

A part of a complete package of promotional tools, including stickers, fliers and posters for Kirk Smith’s album, suddenly bright out.

posted Nov 2004 in collateral, print design, typography - permalink

FronteraFest 2004

FronteraFest 2004

Collateral design for FronteraFest 2004.

posted Sep 2004 in collateral, illustration, print design, typography - permalink

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