DVD and soundtrack design for Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, a documentary about the Japan’s fascination with insects.
Monster Music All-Stars
Illustrations of some of my favorite musicians in horrorpunk: the cobweb-covered, candy-coated, monster-infused subgenre of punk rock.
These were just for fun, but one of them got bought up for merchandise.
The Aiming High Foundation
The Aiming High Foundation was created to help at-risk youth reach their goals of higher education.
These Charming Men
Band logo, button and shirt design
Community Hospice – Halloween Doors and More
Invitation for a Halloween celebration, benefiting Community Hospice of Northeast Florida. For this event, volunteers decorate doors for children to trick or treat to, so the idea was extended to literally dressing up the doors.
Haskell
Magazine ad for Haskell, a design-building company
Blue Bubbles Car Care
Logo for a local car wash.
Muppet Menace
I’m not going to lie: I was really excited for the recent Muppets movie to come out. I saw it on Thanksgiving and walked away thinking about how much I enjoyed it because the entire film was just good-natured fun. Then I saw a report on a news station where they alleged that the movie was brain-washing today’s youth with anti-American sentiment. Being a frustrated designer, I reacted in the most logical sense: propaganda posters.
These tongue-in-cheek posters were designed in the classic propaganda/WPA-era styles, highlighting the absurdity of the allegations.
And just for fun, some “Muppified” portraits:
Shady Characters
Record label logo
MPI
May Property Investing logo
Chets Creek Elementary – Superheroes
Video announcing Chets Creek Elementary’s new theme about empowering children. The principal is the star hero.
I’d done videos for them in the past, but being a long-time superhero fan, this one was a lot more fun to work on. On the others, I’d filmed the principal on a green screen and chroma key her into the films, but this year, she was pregnant and not so eager to squeeze into a spandex body suit, so I had to stretch my illustrative muscles.
Chets Creek Elementary – Farming
Video for Chets Creek Elementary’s agricultural theme. The leadership team was excited about the idea of “cultivating a community of excellence,” (plus, I suspect they were playing a lot of Farmville), and wanted a farming theme. But the challenge was that they wanted the school still to feel progressive, and not like a rural farming school. So I threw away any Green Acres references I was tempted to make, and made a fun, cartoony film, showing the principal and students working together to help the school grow.
I wasn’t on-site for the filming of the source material, which led to some iffy green-screening, but despite these technical issues, the film felt fun and smart, and the kids and teachers got into it!