- UFOTV – DVD Package Design and Logo Design
UFOTV – DVD Package Design and Logo Design
UFOTV – Venice Beach, CA – 2010
Vector Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
I started this project without having access to a photograph of David Icke. Having his likeness on this cover seemed important, so I illustrated this image of David with Adobe Illustrator. This illustration was done with a mouse and a photograph that was made for the internet. The next illustration I made was the sacred geometry of circles and lines. From there, I added some trick photography. I found a photo of blurred lights in a dark room and deleted the black in the photo. What was left were the curved lines from the photo. I pasted them over the moon, under the logo and behind the top of David’s head. They bring a great sense of movement to the logo. I duplicated the image of David to suggest that he has visited other worlds or dimensions. I was very inspired by the movie Waking Life and I look forward to doing more vector illustrations like this one.
- UFOTV – DVD Package Design and Logo Design
UFOTV – DVD Package Design and Logo Design
UFOTV – Venice Beach, CA – 2010
Adobe Photoshop
David Icke has been connecting the dots of conspriracy for the past decade. Big brother was the topic of this documentary. So, the stage was set in Oxford for an over-the-top, shocking DVD cover. I combined satellites, security cameras, the all-seeing eye, outter space, lasers and -of course- explosions and boom! …a scary David Icke DVD cover! I like how David Icke’s satellite is exposing the all-seeing eye. I had a great time working on this project… Just don’t tell anyone that I made this, okay?
- STAR Autism Support – Catalog Design
STAR Autism Support – Catalog Design
Star Autism – Portland, OR – 2010
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign
The small, two color catalog for STAR Autism was designed quickly to promote the latest projects that were being released. The cover is more functional than eye-catching, but not without a sparkle of magic (note the stars flying out of the package in the photo.)
The STAR Autism catalog was printed on letter size paper and folded to make each page 5.5″ wide and 8.5″ tall. The small size was a design challenge and did not leave adequate room to showcase the photos. I was determined, however, to make the images as large as possible. The product names are placed in blue headers on each page and the product number was also located in a header separated by a vertical line. I used stars as list bullets to reinforce the brand name, but made sure not to get too star-happy!
- STAR Autism Support – Business Card Design
STAR Autism Support – Business Card Graphic Design
Star Autism – Portland, OR – 2010
Adobe Illustrator
STAR Autism needed professionally designed business cards for their 10 employees. This card was one of the ten business cards designed using two spot colors.
- STAR Autism Support – Package Design
STAR Autism – Discrete Trial Essentials Teacher’s Aid Kit (Package Design Upgrade)
Star Autism – Portland, OR – 2010
Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
The Discrete Trial Essentials Teacher’s Aid Kit had been a success and the company decided to upgrade the packaging to boost sales even more. The new package was a full color print job on all eight sides (eight sides due to the flap that folds over.) The design still features a number of my illustrations. The box is 18″ x 12″ x 6″ and is large enough to contain a number of toys and instructional materials.
Having this teacher’s aid kit printed professionally gave STAR Autism a chance to buy a number of the toys in bulk and include them in the package. The toys are represented in activities with illustrations like these. Mixing illustration with graphic design is my favorite part of my career.
- Pulp Fiction – DVD Package Design
Pulp Fiction – DVD Package Design and Logo Design
UFOTV – Venice Beach, CA – 2010
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
How I made the DVD package:
I was hired by UFOTV to make the package design for Pulp Fiction, a documentary on early science fiction authors and their work. I watched the film, it was inspiring! So…
…The Pulp Fiction DVD package design started with a volcano! I duplicated an area of a volcano, rotating it so it would form a sphere. An explosion!
I tried to stick with classic pulp colors: red, yellow and black.
From a large selection of AMAZING artwork, we chose images from these works.
After some detailed cut and paste work, I place the images into the layout.
The logo is added to the design with some DRAMA!
The final layout is heavy on the red and black, with much of the yellow exploding on the front cover. The sun that was made from a volcano is barely visible. The hands that were once reaching upwards towards a woman, are now reaching for a woman – defended by a robot. Meanwhile a white man in middle eastern duds is being goosed by a golden serpent! Come to your own conclusion here: _________________________.
The Pulp Fiction documentary had a custom menu screen. I designed the volcano to be a bit larger in this layout. The perspective on the logo drips super drama.
The Pulp Fiction documentary comes with two compact discs. Each disc has a custom image that relates to the overall package design.
- Nights of Wonder – DVD Package Design
Nights of Wonder – DVD compact disc cover and logo design
John Flinn – Portland, OR – 2010
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Great photography requires little design work, but the logo works well with the composition.
- STAR Autism Sunshine Literacy Kit
STAR Autism Support – Sunshine Literacy Educational Kit
Star Autism – Portland, OR – 2010
Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Streamline
The STAR Autism Sunshine Literacy Kit assists teachers with lesson plans, activities, data collection and educational games. Constructing the kit involved over 50 original illustrations and designing hundreds of printed materials. There are 10 total activities that require materials from the kit. Most of the activities required illustrations: 20 illustrations were converted for stencils, 19 illustrations were created for an activity which involves gluing macaroni on the artwork. Additional illustrations were created for the Bingo Cards and Teacher’s Manual. I designed and prepared 434 files intended to be used as flash cards. The flash cards show photographs, colors, shapes and words. Some of the material in the kit is provided on a cd to be printed by the teacher. On this CD, I created custom-built icons. All in all, the project resulted in over 1,000 files that are to be printed by the manufacturer or files that are provided on the compact disc that comes with the kit.
- STAR Autism Sunshine Literacy Lesson Plan Folder
STAR Autism Support – Sunshine Literacy Lesson Plan Folder
Star Autism – Portland, OR – 2010
Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Streamline
All activities in the STAR Autism Sunshine Literacy Kit are explained to the teacher inside of 10 folders.
Each folder holds lesson plan props, data sheets and the one of the 10 illustrated lesson instructions (above).
- STAR Autism Sunshine Literacy Manual
STAR Autism Support – Sunshine Literacy Teacher’s Manual
Star Autism – Portland, OR – 2010
Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Streamline
All activities in the STAR Autism Sunshine Literacy Kit are explained to the teacher in a manual.
The teacher’s manual has 32 pages and include instructions on collecting data on student progress. I also designed the data collection sheets for the teacher’s aid kit.
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