To coincide with the recent album cover design I made, I have also been involved in making a new website for The Boxcar Boys.
The design was essentially a custom theme built around the blogging CMS ‘Typepad’ and echoes the same style and aesthetic of the CD packaging.
The initial design below was proposed but scrapped largely for it’s complexity.
View the live site, which is slowly building in content over at theboxcarboys.ca
I’ve been lazy to update my blog, but I have been busy, honest.
Let’s update it with this logo I did for a chiptune/breakcore DJ by the name of NovaLion.
This bold logo took influences from the 8-bit / Atari graphics era with it’s pixelations and lines.
I really feel I have a tight command of Illustrator now, and my logo work has improved as a result. I hope to get a few more logo gigs soon.
In other news, I have also finished a Boxcar Boys website to coincide with their debut CD design. But more on that soon (yes, really).
My geisha mascot which I use as a logo has been bothering me for some time so I decided to redraw her in Illustrator.
She started life as a 3d model in Maya back in 2006, the image of the model was then ‘live traced’ in Illustrator and, except for a few clean ups here and there, was left like that, a little bit scrappy.
So here she is in her 2011 glory!
I’ve been working on icons again with this set of 32×32 Icons which will be used for a web page for use with mobile devices. They were created in Illustrator and assembled in Photoshop.
The set includes 7 icons in both ‘active’ and ‘inactive’ states.
Well it’s been busy,
My clients seem to be going crazy over WordPress, I have spent a lot of time converting old sites (either static or under a different cms) over to the platform. I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t my bread and butter as a freelance web designer at the moment.
Speaking of WordPress, I’ve just finished a custom theme for a real estate agent in Miami. I was told to produce something which reflected the ‘Miami Vice’ aesthetic for this blog which will serve as a gateway to the agent in question’s main site.
Turn your speakers on! (not too loudly though, music starts at 0:05)
I have set my first paid foot into the scary (no second chances!) world of print with an album cover design for Toronto based band ‘The Boxcar Boys’.
The design incorporates high resolution texture and colour as well as several personally uncharted Photoshop techniques, and was assembled into a printer’s template and spec along with the texts in Adobe Illustrator.
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The Original Source Photo on which the design was based
I’ve spent the best part of a week designing and building a blog which consolidates freely available streamed documentaries and encourages users to rate and discuss them.
The design was made from scratch by me and built upon WordPress.
I put together a jQuery ‘Part Selector’ in the case that a streamed video is divided into parts, allowing for simple inline switching between them.
Check it out at coffeedocs.tv
I’ve also been busy on other fronts so stay tuned!
I just completed a set of around 50 forum (vbulletin) post icons for a health forum focused on Crohn’s Disease.
The task was very enjoyable to do and put my pixel art skills to the test!
If you or anyone you know suffers from Crohn’s disease, be sure to share crohnsforum.com with them for support, help and advice on the issue.
Just finished some vector work in Illustrator of some mushrooms!
I was thinking of writing a tutorial on how I made them, but I’m not sure how much anyone would benefit from that. We’ll see.
An odd thing happened. All of I sudden I noticed all my browser based texts were appearing in a thin italicised font, this applied to chrome, internet explorer 9 and even Steam.
Everything looking a bit thin and italicised?
Some how the system standard ‘Arial’ font had become corrupted but was quickly put right by reinstalling them through this handy windows setup package.
A quick refresh of all my pages confirmed all was well again!
It may be worth noting that the problem can sometimes creep up again but I believe another run of the setup file and system restart will put the problem to rest permanently.
Here is an adapted recipe of my Nana’s which I have turned into a simple mild curry. Based on a condensed soup, it’s quick, it’s cheap, it’s easy and delicious.
I’m not a chef or anything and this is a bit experimental, but it turned out very tasty, feel free to offer adjustments if need be.
serves 2
1. Brown the chicken for 8 minutes in a little olive oil, add salt and pepper and crushed garlic to taste.
Browning the Chicken
2. Meanwhile, get a bowl or saucepan and (i.) empty a whole can of condensed Campbell’s chicken soup in. (ii.) Add your heaped table spoon of mayonnaise, (iii.) a table spoon of luke warm water, (iv.) the green chilli (finely chopped), (v.) 2 flat table spoons of Garam Masala and finally (vi.) a generous squeeze of lemon or lime from half.
Mix thoroughly with a spoon until the sauce turns a tanned colour.
Mixing the Sauce
3. Now place your browned chicken in to a casserole dish and cover it with your mixed sauce.
Cover that Chicken!
4. Cover and cook in the oven for 30 minutes at 200 degrees Celcius.
5. Serve on a bed of rice with a Naan Bread!
Curry Time!
Don't Forget the Beer
Use light mayonnaise and reduced Campbell’s cream of chicken for a leaner meal.
“Sometimes I Worry that Your Head is in the Clouds”
I’ve been playing with my new Bamboo tablet and Art Rage 3.
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