Skyboxes of yore

I miss doing skyboxes.

Of course, when I HAD to do them, they were the bain of my existence. Not because I didn't enjoy them, but because I never had enough time to make them truly cool. And when I did create the time, the rest of my page suffered.

That might be why I made this page to start with: to keep all the good stuff in one place. And to preserve the times I was able to make that 2-inch strip truly mine.

Sketch Logos

I helped with the concept of these lists, so I volunteered to do the illustrations to help them pop.

The pictures were pretty simple — doodles really. Nevertheless, I was pretty proud of my first published drawings (look, Mom!), especially given that most of them came together a few hours before publication.

More fun with type

This was a web logo I threw together for one of our reviewer blogs. I came across the treble clef that was the color you see now, and while I was trying to figure out what color I might change it to, it occurred to me that the shape kinda looked like an "S," which is conveniently found in the word "music." Add some color splash, and voila. Logo.

p.s. - I'm not sure why the orange is blowing out here... it's been fine everywhere else I've seen it. Blah.

Typographical logos

I developed this shadow/mixed-typography/striping style for some new features at the paper as they came up. They didn't go over too well at my SND portfolio review, but you know what? I like them. And so do my editors.

Not shown here is a logo for The Bizz. It was kinda like The Buzz... only with an "i," of course. Oh, and it was green, like money, since it was a Business feature. Get it? Good.

Allrightythen.

Minor setback

My apartment was burglarized last night for the second time in six weeks, so I'll likely be preoccupied with terminating my lease and moving someplace where I don't have to worry about what robbers are going to take next and when that might happen.

They didn't get everything this time (they got "only" my laptop last time as I believe I interrupted them) but they got a lot: the Wii and all the Wii stuff; the DS + games; the roommate's PS2 + games; and all the DVDs I had EXCEPT for my "Sex In The City" DVDs (not big Sarah Jessica Parker fans, I guess). Basically, pretty much all my toys are gone. Boo.

In the end, it really is just stuff, and it could have been a lot worse. But I'm still glad I decided NOT to leave the brand new MacBook Pro at home that day.

Hope you and yours are safe and sound. I remain excited about the possibilities of this blog, so I hope to get back to it soon.

An introduction

I'm not sure why I haven't put together a blog before, but after looking through quite a few of them this weekend (searching for inspiration on a current project), I decided to jump right in.

My intentions for this blog are simple: To share my print design plights and accomplishments in a manner encouraging objective and constructive criticism, which I hope will fuel my own creativity.

It's pretty late, and I should be fast asleep, so I'll simply point you toward my portfolio at newspagedesigner.com for those of you curious to know more about what I do.

Thanks for playing.