January 8th, 2010
This following week I’ll be starting my internship at the Indiana Historical Society. This should be awesome and as soon as I get some works and pieces produced this’ll be the place they’ll be.
Thanks again for stopping by! Please peruse my portfolio to see what I can do for you.
UPDATE: My internship is coming to a close on April 16th. In lieu of this I have a new portfolio with some of those works plus old things from iDiz and IUPUI. That portfolio PDF can be found here: Print Portfolio. I will soon be making new posts with separate projects… hold tight.
Posted in Uncategorized
August 13th, 2009
Sales and Marketing Expertise is a company started with the idea of getting new products launched into the market. It is by these very words that I conceived various logo designs. I wanted to have at least 4 new ideas for the client.
In this project, I used keywords and initial sketches to get ideas for movement and launch. From there I moved to digitizing many of the ideas before settling on a few.
By the time this was sent to the client, I had created eight logos to choose from. These were delivered via PDF, 4-up per page. The final logo choice is still pending review.
Sales and Marketing Expertise Logos 1-4
Sales and Marketing Expertise Logos 5-8
Posted in Identity Design
July 23rd, 2009
Robins Federal was looking to create a new campaign around their Perfect 4 (% APR). To this end, they wanted an interesting brochure that could be mailed to current members.
The format was a 4-fold 6×6 inch mailer. The skills that were required were that of figuring out how to paginate the images and text per each fold that was opened in the brochure. Just as well, the art direction had to be specific to have basic colors differentiate the sections of storyline.
We sent the project back and forth a few times, and settled on the format you currently see.
I also created a few animated gif banners, which are posted after the brochure. They had to keep file size in mind, with questions of quality versus number of frames.
Inside of Brochure for the Robins Federal Credit Union Perfect 4% Campaign
Front of Brochure for the Robins Federal Credit Union Perfect 4% Campaign
Inside (file) of Brochure for the Robins Federal Credit Union Perfect 4% Campaign
Narrow Web Banner Gif
Wide Banner Gif
Posted in Brochure Design, Promotional Design
July 5th, 2009
SKUTT is a company that specializes in throwing wheels for pottery and other pottery essentials. They are also involved in creating how-to posters for classrooms and educational institutions. In the past, iDiz created a step-by-step poster on how to fire a kiln. In this poster, we did a step-by-step on how to actually do wheel throwing with a mound of clay and by the end, have a finished pot ready for firing.
This poster was a little tricky. There were several high-detail photos and several steps that had to be fit on a 18×24 poster and still be readable, legible, and not too cramped. With this difficulty, the solution I came up with seemed to fit best. Several iterations were required to enhance readability beyond this stage.
A poster PDF was sent back and forth a few times, with changes made, and we finally had a solution that was ready for print.
How-To Wheel Throw Poster for SKUTT Ceramic Products
Posted in Poster Design, Promotional Design
June 17th, 2009
Boring is Sexy is a campaign from Montana 1st Credit Union. It promotes a no-frill, no-fluff attitude about loan lending, and doing what’s right. We at iDiz had to create a commercial for TV, with no sound, and only motion, that commits to this laid-back yet serious attitude about rates and member services.
With this campaign, I had to accelerate my understanding of Flash in a short 4 hour period. This means that in 4 hours I had to have the frames prepared and ready in a working video to show the client. Besides this, we had to consider read time and how to fit this read time into a short 30-second spot.
We delievered the motion piece to Montana 1st, and not only is it shown in local television programming, but is also prominently displayed on their web site (as seen below).
Click here to see the Boring is Sexy TV Spot right on Montana First’s website.
Boring Is Sexy TV Spot for Montana 1st
Posted in Motion Design
May 30th, 2009
Mick’s Maniacs is a basketball team from Cincinatti. The goal here was to make sure that the shirt was lively and was colored to fit the school’s colors (red, black, and white). Mick is the coach of the team.
For Mick’s T-shirt, I had to consider layout options, type readability, and coloration.
We delivered seven designs to the client.
Seven Tee Shirt Designs for Mick's Maniacs
Posted in Promotional Design, Tee Shirt Design
May 2nd, 2009
Big Landscapes, Small Architecture is to be a gallery that opens in 2010 that features the work of Wes Janz and the onesmallproject effort. Being held in Terre Haute at the Sheldon Swope museum, we had to find out the experience of a Terre Haute audience by visiting Terre Haute ourselves and understanding what the city is like.
To this end, I had to research the city, museum, and the founder of the museum. With other team members doing work like finding audience profiles, we were able to collaborate on some final concepts that would be usable for next year’s exhibition team to explore and build for this show.
Wes Janz received a concept map from each one of us in regards to BLSA and with this he can understand the directions in which he can go and how his knowledge and resources connect to these ideas.
Process Book Cover from Big Landscapes, Small Architecture
Full Whiteboard Concepting from Big Landscapes, Small Architecture
Whiteboarded Map 2 of Various Elements of Big Landscapes, Small Architecture
Whiteboarded Map of Various Elements of Big Landscapes, Small Architecture
Posted in Exhibition Design, Experience Design
May 1st, 2009
At diedrichHARMON, my primary bi-monthly project is the Delta e-Connections newsletter. Every week there are new articles to add and new copy to add. As weeks progress, occasional copy changes are made and edits to pictures are done. The images are pulled from an FTP or are emailed with the articles. Sometimes I have to go and grab a new image from the FTP if the supplied image is too low of resolution to see the details.
When building out one of these, I have to maintain folder structures to let me know which day I made edits, and I have to track when images are updated. With this, I have to make images that call out certain important notes about articles as well. This helps to make the pages more interesting.
As the final month closes in, the final deliverable is a page with links to several articles, with an introductory image in each, along with precise body copy and accurate dates. This newsletter is then sent electronically to all Delta employees to keep up-to-date with the latest happenings at Delta.
I will not be able to provide images here on the website, as there could be potential trade secrets that may be revealed. Contact me for an interview if you wish to see more about this project.
Posted in E-Mail Design, Newsletter Design, Web Design
December 7th, 2008
The Aspen Design Challenge was a contest by AIGA and revolved around the idea of the scarcity of water and how we, as designers, can try to solve this problem. Our team, plucky7, gave this challenge a go and learned many things along the way. We had to find a very niche audience to promote our concepts to, as well as define as detailed as possible a statement that would drive this whole project.
There were so many parts to this process it’s hard to really pin them down. Some of the many were: ethnographic research, graphic treatments, brainstorm sessions, establishing a secondary expert group, prototyping, implementation, creating distributable kits, and creating progress presentations.
Some of the outcomes of this project were blogs, groups (Facebook and Google), prototypes of three directions, a brainstorm meeting which netted four group sessions, ethnographic research data, and a final implementation book.
Large project keywords / brief / concept post-its created for our in-house development of the Aspen Water Crisis project
Brainstorm activities produced specifically for a meeting with all of our water experts and users in the Aspen Water Crisis project.
Facebook group for plucky7 developed in conjunction with the Aspen Water Crisis project
Wordpress blog for plucky7 developed in conjunction with the Aspen Water Crisis project
Google Groups page for plucky7 developed in conjunction with the Aspen Water Crisis project
Sink advertising Prototype created for the Real Crisis group of the Aspen Water Crisis project
Urinal advertising Prototype created for the Real Crisis group of the Aspen Water Crisis project
Posted in Campaign Design, Experience Design
