A couple of quick logo designs

Dreaming Duffer Blog Logo

Vinopic Logo (for informed wine purchasers)

Aborted Identities

A few designs that failed to germinate.

Organizational Charts

Organizational Chart

In an attempt to return beautiful presentation design to my current place of work, I aggressively volunteered to control all the visuals for our current big undertaking. The first step was to create an organizational chart of all the different levels of administration and so on for the small city. Except for the rectangular forms, I relied heavily on the graphical precedent set by a Robert Palmer.

"Do not Fuck with Graphic Designers"

He has recently made the rounds on all the important design blogs for his reinvention of the ugly and impossible to navigate design that has been used in congress. It is amazing how easy it is to confuse and miss-communicate through the use of bad infographics. As if the subject of Health Care Reform was not an already confusing quagmire. Tufte would vomit profusely at viewing the original design and then be reprieved of his suffering with warm pastels, clean lines and a single font.

Design Voices

complementary colors are the way to go

This is the first stab at a logo for a new sub-committee for the local AIA organization here in Austin. I still think this baybe needs a bit more TLC, but here is the idea so far. Design Voices is responsible for bringing together local architecture firms with local non-profits. I believe that this logo conveys pretty accurately the notion of collaboration, I am just worried that it may be too clean and corporate.

various colorway options

Karibu and Ethiopia

Here is a project that not only served me on technical aspect, but oddly enough, a geographic aspect as well. I was asked by my DJ friend CTRL-Z to design a poster for the upcoming bash that would be hosted by his parent's Ethiopian restaurant. I decided to make a letter jumble within the outline of the country's borders, and demarcate the various band names with the country's national colors. Needless to say, it was very puzzling when after searching I came up with two very distinct definitions of the nation's border.
This is when I asked the client about this discrepancy. He said that the two areas are separate but he has family from both states. So I should include both areas, the mainland Ethiopia and the Eritria. In typical architecture over-achieving fashion, I designed the poster twice.


Sketch 1 of Ethiopia con Eritrea

The border between Ethiopia and Eritrea has never been precisely demarcated. Between 1998 and 2000, the two countries fought a war over the issue, which involves quite small enclaves along the northern segment of their border, including the tiny village of Badme and the enclave of the Irob people. In 2002 an international boundary commission delimited the border. Although both nations agreed to accept its decision, Ethiopia has refused to accept the commission’s findings in full, much to the consternation of the Eritrean government. The central section of Ethiopia’s border with Somalia also has never been fully demarcated and is only provisional. Questions remain about the precise location of small parcels along the border with Sudan as well.~wikipedia

Sketch 2 of Ethiopia sans Eritrea

ART RAG cover

I completed this cover a while ago but have finally had time to post it. I was asked to design the cover for this flagship issue, and due to the time crunch, I came up with a composite of previous sketches. I definitely flexed my photoshop muscles and put a nice epilogue on this season of sketches. Also, this was the first time I have had something of mine published on this scale, very exciting to see your wok reproduced on semi-gloss. Check out the wallpapers I made below.

JPAV Designs

JPav Designs
This is a ongoing project to establish an identity, website, business cards and blog for a local business. This is my first stab at a website, or any of this, and I think the results came out fairly well. But then again, it is not very hard to make the content look good when the content is already such high quality.