The Northwest Teacher Research Collaborative (NWTRC), approached me in the summer of 2007 in need of a logo. After a few concepts and some back and forth, we settled on this logo, a soothing green and gray, sans-serif look.
My first professional logo. Old west inspired and filled with faded, rustic texture, this logo was probably the start of my serious aspiration to become a graphic designer.
The most text I’ve ever had to work into a logo. This one is not my personal favorite, but it does the job. This actually ended up being just about all the branding that was used to promote this event.
A logo design for Wulapalooza, an annual Earth, Art, and Music festival put on by students each year at Willamette. This was part of a rebranding of the festival that included a website, letterhead, and posters (links to come). I designed this logo on the free, open-source, and incredibly awesome vector drawing program Inkscape. These days, I’m using mainly Adobe Illustrator for my illustration and vector art, but I still return to Inkscape occasionally when I’m feeling nostalgic.
A rare example of a bulk mailer designed by me. The approach I took to this one was pretty straight forward. I thought of a more inclusive, self improvement based form of prefessional development. I’m not sure if that’s what the organizers of the event were thinking, but darn it all, it’s what they should have been thinking…
A poster for a lecture by Lewis Nordan. I’m not sure exactly why anymore, but the matches in the design make sense. A little more grungy than most, but an effective poster design if I do say so myself.
Chairman Mao looking over George Washington’s shoulder? Ominous, creepy, and silly, all at the same time. This design is part of a six part series promoting a lecture series on Willamette’s campus.
A poster design for an independent documentary. The poster design was inspired by the vertical presentation of text in some Asian art. The colors of this poster are more muted than I usually like to do, but in this case, it seemed fitting.
