I’ve spent the last four months working on starting my own freelance business known as Creative Improv. It is a unique collaboration between myself and Michael, but also might include more folks in the future depending on the specific project (photographers & programmers). Michael and I would always tell each other, “you know we should start a design business”. Well […]
Only Show Your Best Design Concepts
I was reading the Just Creative Design blog today and this quote caught my eye. It’s from an interview with logo designer Luka Pensive. I avoid showing off numbers of concepts at once as the client is paying me as a designer to see what’s the best for his business/product identity. My task is to deliver a […]
Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Editorial Design, Internships, My Life, Print Design, Redesign, The Design Process
A Summer of Work all in a Magazine
from left – Home Storage Solutions magazine cover, ‘Stack Your Storage’ magazine spread, Table of Contents A few days ago I received a package in the mail. The package was from Dave Stone at Workbench Magazine. It contained the magazine that I spent all summer conceptualizing, branding, designing and redesigning. I had so much anticipation during the past […]
Branding, Clients, Creative Improv, Design Concept/Ideas, Illustration, The Design Process, Website Design
unique artist. unique art. unique ink.
I would never have guessed that of all places, Fredericktown, MO would be home to a really awesome illustrator like Tim at Unique Ink. Michael Goldsmith and I teamed up to create a truly ‘unique’ website for Unique Ink. They offer screen printing/poster design/vinyl lettering and a bunch of other stuff. His artistic style is […]
Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Bruce Mau is a designer from Canada. Mau runs a successful design firm in Toronto and Chicago. He wrote something called the “Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.” It is basically a list of 43 things that exemplify Mau’s style, strategy toward every project. My motion graphics course has incorporated this manifesto into our recent video project. […]
Bad design by design, Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Politics, Redesign, Usability, Viral Advertising, Website Design
Politics & Effectively Using the Web (part four)
In part four, I take a look at the recent website redesign by John McCain and compare it to his previously all black website. Beautiful Design I believe I’ve said this on my blog before. This presidential campaign has largely been about change. Most significantly, a change from really horrible design in political campaigns to truly […]
Politics & Effectively Using the Web (part three)
In part three, I continue my discussion of McCain and his ineffective use of the web. This is part three of six. Excluding 50% of Americans John McCain’s website does not have a ‘Students for McCain’ webpage. In fact, last Spring he had only three people group webpages: Lawyers, Women and Veterans for McCain. But still […]
Bad design by design, Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Politics, Redesign, The Design Process, Website Design
Politics & Effectively Using the Web (part two)
In part two, I continue my discussion of McCain and his ineffective use of the web. This is part two of six. As I said in part one, I spent last Spring studying the presidential candidates and how I could create some ‘advertising’ to help one of the candidates. This was when the democrats were narrowed […]
Bad design by design, Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Logo Design, Politics, Usability, Website Design
Politics & Effectively using the Web (part one)
In part one, I introduce the dilemma McCain has in effectively reaching young people on the web. This is part one of six. As a designer I’ve constantly looked at the candidate websites and tried to imagine how people of different age groups would react and interact with them. These next six blog posts will be […]
Stepping into Video & Motion Design
I’m in a ‘Motion Graphics’ course here at Truman. Our first project was to use Wonder Bread as part of stop motion animation. I chose to play on the fact that Wonder bread was the ‘first’ to sell sliced bread and is an american icon. So I focused on another series of American “firsts” – […]