Gino Verna's Blog

Elvis Presley Hedcut Illustration

ginoverna — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:22:29 +0000

I’ve been trying to work on a technique to mimic as best as possible the illustration style you see on US currency, without being lazy and hoping photoshop will just invent a filter. This was my first attempt, I hope to do a series and start to incorporate this style into my designs more this year. The major upside to this style is how it can easily be silk screened on to a mug or tee shirt, since its essentially line art, or can be converted easily to line art.

Edgar Allan Poe Mugs

ginoverna — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:39:39 +0000

Here are the new Edgar Allan Poe Mugs available at

Bartevians
160 Boylston St.
Boston, MA

Bartevian’s Jewelry and Gift Store

Zach & Debbie’s Wedding Collage in 3-D!!!

ginoverna — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:06:10 +0000

This is a collage I did for my friends Zach and Debbie’s wedding. I used the photos taken by Sherre Paris and retouched them and collaged them into a design. Then I went ahead and turned the poster into an Anaglyph 3-D poster. You will need a pair of Anaglyph 3D glasses to see the effect. Or visit the poster at Zach and Debbie’s sometime. It really loses quality posting to wordpress though. I can only be enjoyed fully at 100% on a high res monitor or if you look at the print. Below i show it without the 3-D Effect so you can see the design more clearly and the details of the photo retouching. Grab some Analglyph 3-D Glasses and take a better look at the full size image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16595139/ZachdebbiesWeddingPosterII3D150dpi.jpg

Close ups:

And now some examples of the Photo retouching before and after. Take particular note of the clipping around the girl’s feathery hat, Photoshop geeks should like that.

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

And now some shots of the Anaglyph 3-d effect: Grab those old 3D glasses you have laying around!

Baby Acapulco’s Happy Hour Menu Design. Austin, TX

ginoverna — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:53:55 +0000

The assignment was to re-design Baby Acapulco’s Happy Hour menu, see their original design below:

Here was my first draft using their current color scheme. I also found their original to be redundant by how they put “during happy hour” under each special.

Here is the second round with the client’s input of changing some fonts to a font they had seen and liked, they also asked to see the type “distressed” and not so sharp. I also took this round of creative to get rid of some of the brighter colors of their current color scheme to show them why it might look better.

After looking at this it was decided to not distress the type but replace the yellows in the design with a distressed old parchment paper treatment which gave the menu a completely new life and was the final design we decided on:

Ian Moore and The Lossy Coils Poster

ginoverna — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:27:46 +0000

Design for the upcoming Ian Moore & The Lossy Coils show at Baby Acapulco’s Austin, TX

Support Print Ad for Th Chronicle, Austin, TX:

www.ianmoore.com

Dysfunkshun Junkshun Poster

ginoverna — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:55:31 +0000

Design for the upcoming Dysfunkshun Junkshun show at Baby Acapulco’s Austin, TX

Original Sketch for Poster:

www.funkparty.com

Glen Templeton Poster

ginoverna — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:41:33 +0000

Design for the upcoming Glen Templeton show at Baby Acapulco’s Austin, TX

www.glentempleton.com

LC Rocks Poster

ginoverna — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:59:44 +0000

Original Promo Piece supplied by band. Certainly needed some design and photoshop help. Of course I prefer to work with great photography from the beginning, but oh well.

Design and photoshop help. 80s color scheme to match this 80s:

Close up of metal effect:

Texas Wildfires Benefit Show Poster

ginoverna — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:03:32 +0000

Poster design for Baby Acapulco restuarants, done in Adobe illustrator CS4

Baby Acapulco Concert Series (Design)

ginoverna — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:49:49 +0000

Here is the first of a series of Posters I have been commissioned to design for the restaurant Baby Acapulco here in Austin Texas. I used Adobe CS4 Illustrator and Photoshop.

This is the first one before client’s corrections. I prefer the negative space of this one. But you cannot control when a band is added after the initial concept:

And here is the final: