Innocent Eyes Poster

I recently was hired to make a Final BFA show poster for the talented Stephanie Jarstad. Her photography show are portraits of blind people, and also photos taken by the people themselves. She gave them cameras and had them take photos of things they think are beautiful.

"Anything Goes/Only the Best" Sketch Book pages

I have decided that my blog will be more of a blog and I will add more random stuff more frequently. Here are some sneak peaks into my "anything goes/only the best" sketch booklet I have been working on. Its getting to be pretty fun. Each week I look through all my sketches and put anything I think is worthy in.

Hand Typography

I have been swamped recently. For those of you who don't know last this past August I was accepted into the Graphic Design BFA here at BYU. It has been a great and challenging experience and the teachers are really helping us work hard. As you can see my most recent sketches have been much more typographic.  The image is of some recent type exploration.

Typografia Mexicana

As I looked at some recent ypography it reminded me of all the stuff I found in Mexico. Over my 2 year mission in mexico I was much more interested in Typography. (I guess I thought that was a little more reverent than drawing anything else). Here are some of the photos I took of stuff I found and some of the things I made. We wrote a lot of letters and so i naturally tried new type treatments. I'm most proud of the "Feliz Cumple Anos" I made for someone's birthday. 

Summer is OVER...

Here are a ton of random things (photos, digital work, sketches, paintings) that I have either finally scanned or done this summer. I didn't think they were that special on their own, but together I can put them all up. That's what a blog is for right?

Forests Poster

This is another project from one of my Graphic Design Classes. We were supposed to design a poster for any worthy cause. Not an organization or company, just a cause. After some sketching I thought of this skull/forest idea. I added some of my process work for fun. I was really pleased with how it came out. 16" x 20" digital print backed on black foam-core board.

Wedding Design Work

I got roped into more design work for my brother's wedding. My Mom wanted a poster that would help explain to the people who came to the reception how the couple had met and what their plans were for the future. She also had me create 2 other signs. A "Just Married" sign for the back of the motorcycle, and a sign for the food table. I hate working for family, but I think these turned out pretty good. The reception had a very natural+vintage+classy look and I think the posters helped. 

Lord of the Flies Dust Jacket

In my 2008 Freshman 2-Dimensional Design class we were assigned a book cover assignment. Our teacher wanted us to create a cover for one of our books. I created something I liked at the time, but now looking back I can see it was very sub par. Recently I decided to redo it to use it in my BFA application. I used the image that I had back in 2008 (my great roommate who was willing to pose with leaves in his hair and put pasta sauce on his face) and changed everything else. I was pleasantly surprised about the outcome. While in Utah (where I printed the book cover) I got to see my family, including my great brother in law who happens to be a photographer. He was willing to take some pictures of the book cover for me. Check out his stuff at http://www.pomazalphoto.com/#!utah_wedding_photographer/mainPage. 

Wedding Invitations

These are the wedding invitations I recently did. They were pretty rushed, but the client just wanted something simple and classy for their summer wedding. I was worried because usually invites are so fancy, neat, or stuffy, and that isn't really my style. I was pleased on how they came out, and I have to say they don't look like your average wedding invites.

VAGD 245 Final (2012)

So I just finished up the final project in my VAGD 245 class. I was overly excited about the project and now that it is done I am very pleased with the way it turned out. One of the department wide projects is to create a functional CD packaging that reflects the artist's style and sound. Since I was loving the Lana del Rey CD 'Born to Die' I decided to choose her as my artist and create a vintage, yet expensive, and slightly dangerous feeling package. I worked with the image for the front (an image I found on the internet) and then some images my brother took in South Africa. I used a geometric sanserif typeface, something modern i guess. I researched the 60's and 70's and tried to make the photos look older. I was convinced I would make some type of vinyl record and base my design around that. Through class critique and the views shared by me teacher I decided to just do an EP or 7in vinyl record, which would only hold 4 songs. The rest was just refining the images and placement to help it all work together. I considered many different ways to add the lyrics for each song, but in the end decided that 4 separate lyric cards would be something people could also use and take out and have separate. I used images from 2 Polaroids I took a few years back and 2 old photos my Dad took from Hawaii. I also created 4 images in Illustrator (the diamond, the shell, the radio, and the rose) and used those throughout my design. I did 2 test prints and a final print, cut folded, and glued it all together and DONE!