Graphic Design
Art to Define Your Unique Identity
If you are a new business, searching for a unique identity,or an existing business with an existing logo or graphics that just need a little update, I'm here to work for you.
Logo Design
One of the most common needs for a business today is a unique brand or identity to set itself apart from the rest.
These are some logo designs I have created within the past year. I really enjoy creating logos for people and the excited look on their face when the project is completed.
Trade Show Back Drops
So far I've had the pleasure of creating 2 trade show back drops. These are really fun and unique.
Coanda Intakes
This trade show backdrop was designed for Coanda Intakes.
The challenge was to visually represent a very unique structure which resides under ground and under water as well as describe the intake system.
The concrete aquaduct was rendered with Google Sketchup from the engineering autocad files.
Folding Brochures
Print may be slipping in popularity to the web, but there will always be a need for folding brochures
Woodcrest
This folding brochure is for the Woodcrest Inn & Retreat. I designed it while working at JH Bass and Associates.
Captain Marvin's
JH Bass also asked me to design a folding brochure for the Cayman Island's operation: Captain Marvin's Watersports.
Windfarm Poster
The Windfarm Poster was a graphic design class assignment.
In rural Appalachia the mountains are being destroyed by a mining technique called "Mountaintop Removal." The goal of this poster is to promote green energy and more specifically, wind energy.
Image Magazine Cover
While a student at WVU Tech, there was a competition to design the cover for the "Image Literary & Art Magazine"
This is my entry and it was chosen as the winner.
The image itself is a picture of "Old Main," the flagship building on campus.
Experimenting with perspective, I selected elements of the building and modified them individualy.
The goal was to create an image that makes you look twice. The first time to notice the colors. I played with a few different filters and effects in Photoshop to separate the elements and give them their own space.
The second look is intended to make the viewer wonder if there was any modification to the image at all.
Package Design
Another graphic design class assignment, this is a package designed imspired by software that can be purchased online.
You've seen it before. You can purchase software online, but the icon for the software looks like a boxed package you might find at a retail store.
What better a company could I make an ad for than my own?
Custom Content Management System Template anyone?
Hover Train Image Composition
This image was created for Art Appreciation class. The assignment was to create an image in the style of an artist movement.
The movement I chose was the "Futurists Movement" of the mid 1900's in the USA.
In the dawn of the industrial revolution, these artists could feel the future coming at them full-speed ahead.
Most of the inspiration for their work was transportation and industrial-based
I really felt this reflected that movement because we could be at the beginning of another evolution. One that looks at green energy and how we make use of it.
Evolution of Graphics
Concept Stages
Graphics, or computer-generated artwork like logos, designs and images start with a concept. How can we best represent your products or services? What kind of message do we want to convey? Who is the target audience? How can we best appeal to them? This is the solution-providing approach used by the 3 Wave Studio.
Graphical Development
After the rough draft has been scanned in to the computer, it becomes a background template on which to create the final piece. We use Adobe Illustrator to develop the Vector Artwork.
Vector Art differs from rasterized or bitmap files in that they are Scalable. Vector Art Files are a series of mathematical equations that tell the computer, or printing device how to display the graphic. That way, if you want to blow up your graphic so that it is large enough to cover a billboard along the highway, or shrink it down to put on a ball-point pen or custom cuff links, you can be assured that it will look the same.
Bitmap Images are files that are composed of thousands of square blocks of colors called pixels. No doubt, in this day-in-age of digital cameras that you know what a pixel is. Bitmap images like JPEGs or GIFs or PNGs are not scalable, but are the preferred files for display on the World Wide Web.
Integrated Digital Design
Here is where it all comes together. The beauty of technology and its advances that allow this all to take place on a single computer. Thanks to the gifted and talented folks at Adobe, we have the Creative Suite. Now we can take your logos, images, graphics and designs and deliver them in whatever format you might want:
- On the World Wide Web in the form of a web site.
- In Print format to be delivered in the form of a brochure, flyer, business card or anything else you can think of.