designer’s valentine card
my valentines day card.
how well do you know your photoshop shortcuts eh?
Wishful Wednesday
wednesday’s are one of those days you sit back and just smile at yourself cause the week is halfway done. It reminds me of when people say the glass is half empty or half full.
this poster pretty much represents 3 steps each signifying how many workdays i’ve just been through. As well as a time glass i use to play with as a kid to pass the time. I was always entranced with time glasses for some reason…. Man I’m wierd. haha
Amber Music
Amber Music is one of the preeminent music production companies in the world, with offices in New York and Los Angeles.
Founded in 1993 by Michelle Curran, Amber’s composers and sound designers have consistently produced award wining work for a range of global clients, most recently receiving a Gold Lion at Cannes for Best Use of Music in 2008, and the only Gold Clio that was awarded in the Music category in 2009.
Last year I was asked to rebrand Amber Music’s whole identity. From business cards to websites everything was redone. From the start it was a little intimidating since I was dealing with a brand that has been doing commercials for Absolute Vodka, BMW, Taco Bell, ect. In the end I had to just suck it up and just be confident.
The final logo was based on how music is interpreted through a sound recorder. One continuos line from the begining to the end. The logo was hand rendered with my own handwriting and I must say was a challenge itself. Refining the logos shapes and curves took me hours. Making sure the lines flow from one end to another while maintaing it’s balance. The red sun icon derives from their old logo to make direct ties with the old to the new.More after the jump
Forgettable Tuesday
Another weekday…It’s been awhile since I’ve touched this project and still collecting. Tuesday was particularly hard though because in all reality….. what do you think of when tuesday comes to mind? Nothing. Tuesday is one of those days in the week that tend to just disappear from your memory and later have no recollection of remembering what you did that whole day.For this poster I was more inspired with a childhood memory of what use to scare me when me and my friends would play in the woods. It’s those insects have the ability to camouflage themselves within the trees. That’s what Tuesday’s are… They’re days in the work week that you put in the back of your head and noone remembers till Friday. Then it scares the shit out of you cause you totally forgot to do something important… shit….
Lebron’s Badge
I haven’t touched nike basketball in awhile and 90% of all the things on the site is now done by the famous riggidy raz (One of the photoshop gods at work) But once in awhile i get asked to hop back in again. This time it was creating a new feature for Lebron James Play With Heart. Must say even though I did a small portion of the feature it was still a little hectic. It took me 2 weeks to make this badge with revision after revision and client request here and there. Wore me out and eventually took over my life for those weeks to the point I dreamed about it.I celeberated a little when it finally got approved. So after 2 weeks of pounding on this small badge I hope all you basketball heads take the time to pledge your heart
All I did was the badge and that itself took sometime…imagine the rest of the site… so gotta give some props to Ryan, Rasmus, Andy, Collen, Jason, Thomas for doing a great job!.
Dave Smiles
Ahh its been awhile since i last posted and it seems like my design blog is turning into a wedding blog. “shrugs” I have some designs coming up soon but been so busy that I haven’t had time to update. “PROMISE” i’ll try to updated more.
For now I’d like to leave off with another wedding i did recently. Wanted to post this one up as quick as I can cause I’m still editing Tina’s wedding as well as juggling a couple of freelance projects as well as a fulltime job.
This wedding was absolutely beautiful. A very intimate wedding with guests of 40-50. Something about small weddings that just make things a lot more special for the couple. Hopefully get to do more soon… Again Congrats Sheena and Dave!
Images after the Jump.
Beautiful Bride.
Another wedding with yet another beautiful bride. it’s shocking and surreal to see all my childhood friends getting married. To see them up in the alter saying their “I do’s”. I feel old. Haha. Overall great wedding but I did happen to run into a problem in the reception. My flash battery pack broke…. Stupid me didn’t have any extra batteries which is bad, but I quickly snuck out of the wedding to make a dash to the closest Home Depot and bought 45 pack of batteries. That was scary. Luckily I had an assistant this time around and help me ease up during the wedding that I actually got time to dance with the bride. Anyways enough writing lets get to the pictures!! Congrats Tina and Jim!!
My New Love
World meet my new Mac Pro 8 Core duo and Intuos 4 tablet.
Finally… my dream machine.
it took me 4 years but i finally have you
smiles
My First Wedding
This is basically a story of my first “professional” wedding I’ve ever photographed.
As a designer I’ve always been interested in photography and when I got a hold of my first SLR two years ago I was in love. Throughout that time I’ve always been approached to do a wedding once in awhile but I would always decline because I never believed that I was up to that level of photography. Also being trusted with such responsibility of capturing one of their most important days of their lives kinda scared me.
Livestrong
One of my current projects that just launched from R/GA. The newly launched Livestrong and it’s amazing. I actually loved working on this project since I got to work with some outstanding programmers and flash developers. The people there are amazing. I swear I still have that amazing feeling about designing a website on photoshop and seeing it fully functional online just amazes me. The people on this project was just an A team I swear. So go ahead guys check out the website and make a profile and support a good cause Livestrong.
