Well it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted. That’s going to change this year. Life’s been busy, but it’s time to get some content rolling out. I possibly may even work on a new design layout for the blog. We’ll see how things go.

Other than that, this is the brand new artwork for the second series of the year at Faith Family Church called, “Inspire.” Definitely a minimalistic, modern style, but I kinda’ dig that. I threw the art in After Effects as well and made the 30 second television spot that airs locally.

Anyways, feel free to check out the art/spot. If you click on the smaller image, it’ll open an even larger version in a lightbox. (Read on…)

So this past week I’ve been pretty busy, but on my free time, I was finally able to design my new business cards! Took a bit of critiquing, but after a few days I was satisfied. These will be utilizing a “Spot UV” printing technique on “Silk” laminated paper. I had to properly adjust the brightness and contrast of the documents that I sent ahead of time because the silk slightly darkens and reduces the overall contrast of the image. So a little tweaks here and there should yield a great looking result.

Now the Spot UV technique prints a UV Gloss on designated areas of the card. These areas will be the logos (Read on…)

This past Saturday I was inspired to piece together a Comp Magazine Ad. I spent the majority of the day working on it off and on. I’m particularly a fan of pin striped suits, so I decided to run with the male subject photo that I found on SXC. I ended up choosing Armani as the fictional client out of pure randomness after glancing at a bottle of my cologne.

I had been wanting to give the abstract style a try and this is the result. I’m not a big fan of the designs that get too busy, so I developed my elements and determined the placement based on focal points of the main subject. For example, his downcast eyes determined my placement of the logo and shining sun/star to create the illusion that he is “gazing” at those elements. (Read on…)

It’s been a while since I was told about this link, but I definitely find it worth mentioning. This more or less serves as an example of why you should get your facts and reporting correct before throwing statements out there. (Read on…)

Here’s a little conglomeration of some amazing motion tuts that caught my eye this past week. I went through and tried to include some tutorials that could be used as base knowledge to pull off other tutorials that were in the list. Look through and you’ll see what I mean. Hope you enjoy.
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Twitter is a great thing. It’s getting larger and larger as its self created digital word-of-mouth power spreads itself into every corner of this known world. As you know, twitter is a micro-blogging social network in which millions of people share their thoughts and lives in a fully searchable but sometimes unrealized fashion. The great thing about twitter though, is that it’s so much more.

Twitter has crazy potential just waiting to be unlocked and discovered, and even as we speak, twitter founders, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorse, along with their staff, are discovering new ways to tap into its potential. As they do so though, there have been millions of users that have been coming up with their own ideas as well. (Read on…)