Colorful Joe.

I was cleaning off some older content from one of my servers and came across this textile pattern I had created a year or so ago. I'd love to have a lounge shirt with this pattern on it.

Your in Good Hands!

Electronic Data Recovery, Sports & Leisure, Home Electronics, Office Furniture and Prized Possessions are just some of the areas that Allstate Insurance covers and each needed an iconic representation for use in print and marketing materials. I was directed to use the corporate blue and the background on each set shown below is a tint of that blue color.

The conceptual underpinning on icons can get a little tricky, especially when the topic is complex or not generally known by the public. But this is the aspect of icon design I really enjoy, it's like being a graphic detective of sorts. The challenge is to discover that iconic visual clues that help to relay the given topic. Some approaches are extremely literal because the topic dictates a more literal approach, where as a topic like 'Identity Theft' isn't so straight forward. A criminal can steal your identity in a variety of ways so you don't want to focus on any one specific criminal method, rather you want to relay to the viewer the overarching idea of what 'Identity Theft' is all about and that is how I approached it. A thief nabbing your ID and taking off with it.

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DangerUSAmerica!

I am not one who is plugged into the whole hip-hop scene. Frankly the music doesn't appeal to me in the least nor does the lifestyle it spawns but I do like the funky art I've seen associated with it. Namely the hand lettered type.

So when I was contacted by a hip-hop artist to create a branding for his line of clothing 'DangerusAmerica' I thought it would be a good excuse to do some full-tilt boogie hand lettered type.

You'll notice I have re-used several components from past jobs. Namely the face, Handgun and splatter texture.

Windows Gaming Branding Concepts

Last week I worked as a hired gun with my buddy Jeff Pollard out of Portland. He hired me to team up with him and assist with concepts for a branding that would be used with the new Windows Vista. Being the geniuses that Microsoft marketing is they picked a very unique name for the gaming aspect of the OS, they decided to call it 'Windows Gaming'. How original.

Well I at least tried to create a unique mark. one of the key attributes they wanted in the mark was the ability to animate it. These are the '8' I contributed. Basically it's me and Jeff against the design behemoth 'Hornell Anderson'. We'll see how it turns out.

Personally I did the dude with the thumb and branded window fingers.

NO!SPEC - Poster

This is a poster concept I did for a new site launch called NO!SPEC.COM I had fun splattering paint last night in my garage. That is until I noticed I got it all over our freezer, scooter, door, wall and pretty much everything with a 10 ft. radius. Oops.

You can download both posters I designed in PDF form at the NO!SPEC site.

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Tribal Tattoo

Over the past year I've done a few of these tribal tattoo faces. They are addicting and a whole lot of fun to create. I've wanted an excuse to do another and when I got the 'Illustration Friday' email it gave me an excuse to do another one. The texture in the art is from an old cement landing dock I took a picture of. Fun surface texture.