Design for the upcoming Ian Moore & The Lossy Coils show at Baby Acapulco’s Austin, TX
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Ian Moore and The Lossy Coils Poster
November 15, 2011Dysfunkshun Junkshun Poster
November 14, 2011Design for the upcoming Dysfunkshun Junkshun show at Baby Acapulco’s Austin, TX
Original Sketch for Poster:
Glen Templeton Poster
October 10, 2011
LC Rocks Poster
October 6, 2011Original 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
September 23, 2011
Poster design for Baby Acapulco restuarants, done in Adobe illustrator CS4
Baby Acapulco Concert Series (Design)
September 12, 2011Here 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:
Max’s Restaurant Branding and Collateral
February 2, 2011Taking a break today from the Kuddable Kakes designs.(see previous blogs).
Here is a logo and branding I did for Max’s Seafood restaurant in New Jersey.
The owner was adamant about using a mussel in the logo. This restaurant had been known for its mussels for decades. As a designer, when you design a logo you think “simplify the image into a graphic shape.” Well when you take this concept and apply it to a mussel, you get a black blob. So the conversation had me trying to explain why most seafood restaurants use a lobster, crab or fish in their logo. The client was not budging…wanted…NEEDED a mussel.
So below is what I came up with. It is actually one of my proudest moments as a designer. I even had the printer emboss the ridges of the mussel on the menu, it makes for a great effect. The process was 1. sketch out in pencil 2. redraw in Adobe Illustrator, finish in Adobe Photoshop.
It is also a prime example of why good logos cost money. Simply put, a good logo, done well, can be a money-maker for the client. This client puts this logo everywhere, commemorative mugs, shot glasses, tee-shirts etc. He has continued to make money on this logo long after he paid his branding bill to me. This logo next to any headline on a billboard IS a billboard or ad. It is that recognizable.
