web design, graphic design, art, music and illustration

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.

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.

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 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.

Star Autism – Discrete Trial Essentials Teacher’s Aid Kit

Star Autism – Portland, OR – 2009
Graphic Design, Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Streamline

Star Autism makes teacher’s aid kits aimed at students with autism. The DT Essentials kit was developed to help motivate participation in the class lessons. The package comes with 11 interactive and sensory toys which students will have the opportunity to play with as they complete their lessons. When a lesson is completed, the student earns a coin, after 3 coins have been earned the student may play with the toy. To make this process as simple as possible, I illustrated a store where the student may collect toy credits. I also did over 11 illustrations of toys that are placed on the store. The final element of the product is the package design. The background of the box contains many of the toys included in the box. The box also features the illustration of the store, a visual representation of the teacher’s kit.

Good Company Games – Board Game Package Design and Logo Design

Good Company Games – Tucsan, AZ – 2009
Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Streamline

Good Company Games has been contracting me to do web, graphic and illustration work since the company was founded. The original Cornerstone game has since won the Mensa Select award, Mensa’s organization has over 110,000 members worldwide who qualify by scoring in the top 2% on a standardized intelligence test. The game has been in high demand since winning and I was contacted to design the package for this follow up game. Cornerstone Essential has less pieces than it’s predecessor. A sticker will be added to this package to denote the player colors, buying a number of these smaller game sets will allow larger groups to play a single game. My illustration kept this in mind showing an endless horizon of towers. I hope this version is just as successful.

Marrienette – Logo Design

Stop Physics – Portland, OR – 2009
Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Streamline

A fun little elephant logo. The shading and outline of the elephant was drawn by myself, the wings are modified from an actual photograph.

I started out with a sketch, drawn by hand and then scanned.  After I transformed the sketch into a vector image, I began giving the shape highlights and shades.  This was done in Photoshop.

I began outlining the major shapes of the elephant with strong strokes.

I then muted the shading and highlights.  I also added some texture to replicate skin wrinkles.

I pulled some wings from a butterfly photo, modified the wings and added them to the elephant.

Rock ‘n Socks – Logo Design

Stop Physics – Portland, OR – 2009
Illustration, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Streamline

The final and third attempt at the pin-up woman riding a tricycle. This is one of my most realistic images, yet. Although the client chose to follow an alternative route. I’m including the image because it marks a milestone in my illustration style. I would like to work more with realistic illustrations that are used for rock posters.

This shows the process of how the final illustration was produced. Each revision was created with the client’s requests in mind.

My first attempt was too similar to a Dr. Seuss illustration.

My second illustration was more realistic, but the tricycle may look better on an angle.

The third sketch was crude and needed more attention once it was scanned in.

The fourth step in the process produced the vector look of the third sketch.  I felt the woman’s face still needed some work and tweaked some other areas before the final image was presented.

This was done with pencil, ink and photoshop.  This image is available for purchase exclusively (meaning I won’t use it for any other projects).  For $200 it can become your next CD cover or film poster!

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!