Graphic Design
Position is everything! Sketch first, design second! Use the inverted pyramid! Keep it simple! Read, learn, execute! Organize, organize and organize! Breakup the grey! Tell and Show! Make choices! Be original! Preserve the future and the past (design rules)! You need multiple entry points! Think outside AND inside the boxes! The designer controls the program, not the other way around! Use vivid, use organized, use data metaphor and use simple metaphor! No Comic Sans! No linear thinking! No trapped white-space! Be prepared to break all of these rules once you've learned them! ...My design teachers always yelled.
Dismissing graphic design is easy. People might think graphic design doesn’t have a practical application beyond eye candy, but design can influence opinion and shape emotion. Design creates emphasis and perspective, and should enhance an experience, not detract from it.
A portion of my background directly stems from information graphics and newspage design, but I also have a proper amount of experience as a graphic designer as well. Also, because graphic design and the Web are so closely related, please visit my Web design section for more works.
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Illustrated Brand Ideas and Art
Samples of my most fun illustrations and ideas. Designing is a daily process for me, the archives are much larger.
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Photo edits and t-shirt designs.
I enjoy playing with fun ideas, weather that pretains to a friends photo that inspired me, or an awesome thought I'd love to seen on a t-shirt!
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Grant Thornton New Brand Editorial and Icon Images
With the start of 2008, Grant Thornton began to implement a new brand identity contracted to Pentagram, a world renowned, world famous design agency. The goal was to update the brand for a modern edge, to show the companies fast moving and versatile side. The move not only increased the brand colors, but implemented new, more ridged design methodologies, along with a host of new graphic elements including text treatments, editorial art pieces and icons to be used throughout promotional, white paper, report and official documentation. Below are a few of the icons, and editorial images I worked on while I was consulting.
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Grant Thornton Print Designs
During the final portion of 2007, I was doing a fulltime consultancy with Grant Thornton LLP. Below are but a few of the design samples (low res) I created for this accountancy agency.
Their brand guidelines were fairly straight laced, but allowed from a decent amount of flex to compensate for effective information flow, creativity and color. Surprisingly, there was a fair amount of graphic creation and photo editing involved. Use of an effective graphic was a main component of their complete design aesthetic.
