Quick and Dirty

I created this really quick, based on an idea I had floating in my head for a little bit. I was directly inspired by some work I was doing at the tribune involving diagonal lines, and the letter treatment was developed from basically messing around in illustrator for a long, long time, and is similar to another treament I did for something at work (i'll show you eventually). This is just a quick and dirty concept, no real direction, just something I thought was fun.

What does this make you feel?

I've had this idea for close to 2 years. This is me seeing if my idea works. I think it does.

Breaking News

This ended up not being used, but i thought the concept was there. The idea was that it would work well across multiple platforms. I created an entire style guide to maintain the brand but this is gist of it.

Scaredy Ghost

Apparently this has become a ghost-centric blog. I guess I just really like drawing ghosts, and I would like to actually post some more legitimate works. I don't just draw ghosts, I do have a for reals job. Anyways, I thought this idea was adorable, and I think I was right.

Golden Oldies

I was digging around the interwebs and came across KhangKhong.com, a website that one of my teacher in college ran. They held art jams, someone would suggest a topic, gather reference material, and package it up. Then anyone could download the zip file and create an image based on the theme. The theme for this particular jam was Spock. So i made a pair of images that I thought would look neat on a t-shirt, albeit a girls t-shirt. I made these half in photoshop and illustrator, a long long time ago. I'm gonna guess 2003, but could be sooner.

Future Ghost

Commander Dutch "Howie" Dorough of The 87th Future Ghost Brigade is a veteran of the Ghost-Bot Conflict, not to be confused with The Robot-Ghost Wars of the early 23rd Century.

I made this

Not sure why. If you know, tell me. Thanks.

Rock The Inauguration

Haha! I told you i'd post some real design work! I did this for an event in Chicago to celebrate Barack Obama's inauguration in January. It was feature on posters, banners, flyers, print, web and television advertisements. I drew inspiration from Obama's immaculate creative direction from his campaign using the Gotham typeface as well has the established PMS colors. I wanted there to be definate "Obama" visual cues without aping his style entirely.

Let The Right Ghost In

Okay, i said I wouldn't do many more, but i had to. This was suggested by my wife. I added arms to these ones, I just thought it gave them more character.

Ghost Doom

I don't want this to become a an all ghost blog, but when I get ideas. I have to do them. Otherwise i will forget. I will probably start posting some for reals design work soon. Also, i started a new technique with this one, so i'm adding a higher res version of it than i normally would because you wouldn't notice the newness on the smaller file. Enjoy!