Thought Factory

I took this photo for a recent post over at my site KentuckyScenic.com. You can check out the rest of the photos in the post here: http://kentuckyscenic.com/a-winter-lake/.

This piece was created using the screen printing process. I created the actual design using Illustrator then printed transparencies and used them to expose the screen. The content is my attempt at depicting of a funny scene that just seemed to pop in my head one day.

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This design was created as an exercise in logo design by creating a mark, word and type that all support each other in a unified idea or emotion. I started by physically creating the mark with ink and brush on paper. This was then scanned, converted to a vector, and refined. I then came up with a word / emotion that worked well with the resulting mark. The three pieces shown above are explorations of different type treatments with the same mark cropped and moved into varying options.

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I designed this logo for an upcoming website that is still under development. The website is going to focus on showcasing incredible shops from all over the world by allowing users to upload and share their retail destination discoveries. I wanted to go with a retro style because I felt the Swap A Shop name, by itself, had a 50’s era feel and rather than fight that, I wanted to utilize it to further strengthen the brand identity. The two rounded squares in the mark are meant to loosely represent shops and the overlap helps to reinforce the core trading aspect of the site. In the design process, I chose to give up some versatility in the logo by incorporating the detailed shopper but because it is only going to be used in the website format I was willing take the trade off in order to create what I felt was a more unique and memorable logo.

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This piece was created in response to a design assignment that challenged me to come up with a metaphor for a book titled “Staying Tuned”. As you can see from the tag line in the poster, it was about keeping an audience in today’s media. I decided to represent this idea through the pixelated portrait because today’s audiences are spread out across the mass amounts of digital content that is available through numerous mediums.  It used to be that content was delivered through print, radio and tv. Now, it’s understandable that media companies find it hard to keep the same sized audience when they can view content on devices such as mobile phones, portable media players, laptops, computers, tvs, ebooks, and others that deliver media from places like hulu, podcasts, youtube, torrent sites, rss feeds, netflix, ebooks, and many, many other sources.

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