terrytoledo.com art and design

I plan on sending these postcards out very soon. Let me know if you would like a copy by sending me your address with the contact page!

I had previously illustrated and designed the cover of this company’s premier board game, Cornerstone. The website was designed around the elements used in the package design and runs off a content management system. The entire site was installed, designed and hand-coded by myself and is WC3 valid. Good Company Games is located here: www.goodcompanygames.com.

Toby had already been using a similar shape that was made of mother of pearl and then embedded on the headstock of his custom guitars. I redrew the shape and gave it color and texture to match the actual image on the guitar. The shape represents the letters “P” and “L”.

This is a very basic content management site. The entire site was installed, designed and hand-coded by myself and is WC3 valid. Presnell Lutherie is located here: www.presnelllutherie.com.

In planning my first direct mailing, I have worked up a number of postcard ideas.  This did not make the cut, but I feel it works nice enough for my portfolio.

I just finished this web site for an author in Portland, Oregon. David’s book, Columbiana, needed a web presence and a means for readers to purchase the book. The site uses a content manager and a PayPal gateway. The site also uses a unique plug in that pulls David’s blog from his Tribe webpage and displays the links in the navigation. The book contained black and white colored images which were used to make the graphics of the site. Staying with the theme of the book, the entire site is done in black and white. Take a look at Columbiana!.

Do you visit a number of web pages for information? Does it also relate to your web page? If so, you should think about offering posts from those sites on your website with RSS feeds. An RSS feed can add links and text directly to your site. Plus, it updates itself automatically! In fact, this post is an RSS feed found on my homepage and on the admin panel of all my client’s web pages. It’s a new way I can keep everyone up to date with new services that I can provide. If this sounds interesting to you, give me a call or send me an email and I will be happy to explain it more. Cheers!

This is the first website that I completed that ran on Wordpress.  I had already used Drupal and was quite frustrated with the endless options.   Wordpress was the perfect system for Mike’s page.  The Wordpress theme is hand coded by myself in PHP, CSS and HTML.  It is located at http://www.mikehillwatercolors.com.

I did a huge amount of graphic design work on this site.  All of the banners, category images and buttons were done by me.  I’m not extremly happy with the homepage layout, I could do a better job of it’s information architecture.  This assignment, however, involved only the re-skinning of the site.  I hope to address the crowded nature of the homepage soon.  It is located at http://www.ufotv.com.

This logo existed previously, I added the lighting effects and depth.

This logo was developed for CafePress tees and products. The message and image are aimed at outlaw DVD pirates. While I was drawing this, I recalled what my Spanish teacher told me one day, as she confiscated a drawing of mine. I believe it had something to do with “never making a living by drawing skulls”… She would be so proud of me.

I developed three logos for the Groom Lake Yacht Club series. Groom Lake a popular area for UFO watching near area 51. The surface of this dried lake bed is also capable of hosting land surfing sports. This logo features one air-born, skateboarder, if you look at the bottom of his board you will find my logo mixed with random UFOTV logos. The sail contains a popular crop circles logo.

I designed this DVD package with four clip art photographs that I purchased without seeing the film.  The cover suggests an agent existing in the foreground and background of the setting.  Adding a photograph of the milky way compliments the cosmic nature of the documentary.

The Shoot Em Up DVD package was made to be a bit scary.  First, I purchased a great photograph of a vintage syringe.  The old device is very intimidating and threatening, perfect for the feel of the documentary.  It is injecting a glowing green fluid into the star on the American Flag to suggest that the old ways of treating disease is toxic.  Behind these images is a list of ingredients found in vaccinations, not meant to be readable but relative to the subject matter.