The TaTa Gala: Photos

Ok, so I may have totally forgotten to share with everyone some pics taken from the opening evening of the TaTa Gala in Soho. It was a fun event and happened to be the first gallery I have ever showen in and for that matter the first gallery I had gone to since moving to NY. I can't wait to participate again next year!

ISOPURE LIVE

Alright guys! This is the first project to live with a client since my job started in January. Link and screen caps below show a t-shirt building site based off of a questionnaire you answer online. I got to design a lot of the little icons that pop up with each answer, so take a look and enjoy! You can fill out the answers and post your icons on your facebook page. I just ordered my own shirt! If you don't like which icon pops up for your answer, just click back on the last question and re-click your answer to get a different icon. This has been a really great project to get to work on so soon after arriving at Yard, and they are wonderful clients to work with. It's very exciting to see it up and ready to go.

Wine, Women & Advertising

Don't let this header miss lead you. I have been completing an internship with a really great advertising agency in New York called YARD. And although I love my job there it sadly is not to much like MAD MEN. I mean how could it, the number of sexual harassment law suits alone... No company could withstand such a record. So, in sharing this information, I apologize for the lack of posts. It has been a wild ride the past few months with the new job, moving to the city and a freelance gig here and there. BUT I vow to show the blog a little more love. Even if its reposting some of the stellar design and illustration work I am always finding during the week.

Shots of the new apartment from the MOVE:

A New Vibe To Europa Financial

As a new project for the portfolio I decided to go back and create an addition to a recent branding I did (as well as make some minor tweaks to the color pallet). Europa Financial is an Investment/Wealth Management firm that I was thinking could use some new advertising. It was my thought that this would be something more like a leave behind that could be used as a direct mail piece during optimum times of the year statistically for new business for the company. It is a four page booklet with a fold out info-graphics that I posted in my last post. These are some shots of the booklet assembled.

Info Graphics?

Info graphics? Really? Yeah, sure why not. It was actually pretty fun. I used a logo design I had worked on a while back as the jumping point for this thing. I also did a bit of a revamp of the logo as well as some letterhead design for it. All will be posted when it's finished and I have a chance to print and mock-up the booklet. If all goes to plan it will be up this week... Stay tuned.

That Went Quick...

Spectrum worthy?...I think I might send it in with the other and see how it goes.

New Little Project :: Chimp's In Space

Don't ask me why I felt like doing something as common place as a chimp in space. But I am having fun with it so i don't really care. haha I also need to get on top of fixing the Cracken painting for my Spectrum entry... If I miss the deadline again I will spend another year kicking myself.

From Sarasota to New York, for the "Best Of The Breasts"

That's right guys, I have gotten the official notice for my admittance into the "Best of the Breasts" show! Only 17 artists were selected to hang at the Sacred Gallery in New York City and I was lucky enough to included in the top selections. Take a look HERE at a sneak peak of the other pieces coming to New York February 5th to the 25th.

Discover A Muse Hits the Shelf!

That's right guys, the wait is over. Discover A Muse is officially published and on sale. I added a link to the site bellow on the sidebar. So click on over and take a look for yourself. I'm a bit broke at the moment, so maybe i'll ask for it for Christmas haha. May sound sad, but that's my plan... I mean, it IS for a good cause, so lets not forget about that.

First Commercial Gig!

This is my first Published Illustration job that paid! Although I have been fortunate enough to do well with recent charity events such as "Discover A Muse" and the 2010 "TaTa Gala", This has been the first PAYING gig I have gotten published. So if you really love me drop by a Hot Topic this Christmas and pick up a Copy of Wonderland by Sea Of Treachery! Also the Discover A Muse book will be out and on sale soon, so go pitch in and support the cause!

Ambush: Final

It is finished! Finally! I really drug that one out big time... and yes some of you may have noticed that a party member is missing. So what, It's my painting, I can do what I want. And that character was just rubbing me the wrong way the whole time I worked on it. So out she went. Just in time for Illuxcon 2010. Which I am driving to in the morning. 5hrs! by myself...It's gonna feel like days I'm sure.

Ready For The TA TA GALA

Well, after sending it off to be printed on canvas, stretching the print onto a frame than staining the slats and nailing them to the sides of the canvas, I am ready to express ship this sucker to the gallery opening later this week. Talk about a rush job, but the printing of the piece took longer then I was expecting. I would so do it again though. I am really happy with the results. Makes me feel more like a real artist to have it on canvas in my hands that size. Very exciting.

Random Little Logo

  

A Tasty Concept...

Who has heard of Jovoto? I hadn't till recently. I guess it has only been recently that I have gotten into more graphic design stuff, so that may have something to do with it. They are a corporate design contest host. So you go there sign-up and start competing. All of them are for monetary prizes of varying amounts so there is always an incentive. These are my entry slides for the first one I have taken part in. The end goal is to design a concept for a new line of snacks for Kit Kat brand. The entry for this one closes in the next day or so then there is an extra week of voting by peers. It's always fun if you can do something that could make money in your spare time, right?

A Brief Segue into Design

Well after three days of working on my ambush painting I kind of needed a break. SO I decided to re-brand the company Smoothie King instead. Don't ask me how that is a "break" but it was fun. Took me about four days to finish from beginning to end. Sketches for all this started Thursday evening and I finished everything up this evening. Do I still need a break? Nah...well maybe haha. But who doesn't. These shots are only a taste of the full project. Take a HOP over to my site to take a look at the full thing.

A Midnight Ambush: Work In Progress UPDATE

A Midnight Ambush: Work In Progress

Just a little progress shot. I am still unsure as to how much I really wanna light the third party member BUT I'm pretty sure that there is going to be someone on the ground that has noticed them. The best way to play with the shushing motion from the guy int he dark. I have sketches for a character but I am waiting to put them in. There wouldn't be much to them due to the size, but the contrast from the fire should allow for some well established characteristics.

A Little Taste of Everything...

Ok, I said I would post up the new paint but I haven't gotten to far into it just yet. So here is the rough(very rough) sketch I do have done. To follow up with that is a logo "re-design" as a personal project of Lambesis Studios. I thought it would be fun to rework the look of what they had, but since this is something I did for myself you can look up their current logo yourself if your that curious.

Bacon + Eggs 24hr Diner

ALPHADOG HABERDASHERY

More Graphic Design! I have been adding more graphics stuff to my portfolio like a mad man. And I think I need a break. Here is another project I just finished. It's a fictional haberdashery that I thought would be fun to work with. The store concept with revolve around hats and accessories mainly, with a few exceptions for shoes some jackets and bags. I would shop there. But I think I may have actually just created a store I can' afford. There is a few more parts to this collection on the side so if your curious click on over.