Magazine advertisement for Revelation Fitness, a company based in Austin, Texas whose goal is physique transformation.

Title treatment for “Post Mortem,” a PBS FRONTLINE program. This treatment was used on the website in several places and on the DVD packaging.

Magazine advertisements for Chase Global Services.

Collateral pieces to highlight Chase Global Services’ Child Support Solutions and their Business Intelligence — important in terms of positioning and demarcation in a crowded field. Part of a complete suite of materials, including logo, advertisements, website and 8′ exhibit booth package.

Catalog design for Laura Morgan designs. These books were designed 8.5″ by 8.5″ square and printed by the client’s vendor. The pages are held together by a binder ring — designed such that the pages can be easily removed or added. A select few of the rings contain some kind of jeweled bobble, some small piece of Laura’s jewelry stock. Most, for cost reasons, do not.

After designing several pieces of her branding and identity — including logo cleanup, her business cards and jewelry tags — it was clear that Laura Morgan designs needed a clean and elegant look as so much of her work is inspired by nature, architecture and oil paintings. As such, the font used on most of Laura’s collateral is Avant Garde Gothic.

As no doubt you have been monitoring my being naughty or being nice this year — which brings up a whole other thing about online and offline privacy, we can discuss that later though — I’d like to pose a question, does your standard for being good come strictly from the song, “Santa Claus is Coming to Town?” I ask because I want to be clear.

If this is the case, the concept of good seems to linked to the phrase “for goodness sake.” So, being good is good because it’s the right thing to do. Yes? The right thing to do?

In that vein, let me take this opportunity to talk to you a minute about your branding. Because why? Because it’s the right thing to do. continue reading …

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.

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+

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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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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