PrimeTime is an extension of a program already in place at a church in Southern California called GameDay. Their original artwork was fairly sparse. Here it is: With no color palette, multiple typefaces and weights, and no real artistic direction, it looks unfinished and unprofessional. Since it’s called PrimeTime and the original parent program is called GameDay, a sports theme is the obvious direction. Since it’s also a children’s program, I wanted colors that were both sporty and youthful. Here is the first idea: Notice the ball shape of the center panel, the field...
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I have argued that the grunge look is an outdated trend, but I’ve been proven wrong almost daily. Here’s another great example of of parchment, grunge, woodcut-style
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I was hanging out with Mrs. Dognmoon a little while back and stumbled across this furniture series at Restoration Hardware in the Fashion Island Mall (Newport Beach). Very rarely does furniture catch my eye, but when a designer is inspired to create something so unconventional and so totally bitchin, I have to sit up and take notice. I am currently in the process of saving the $20k it would cost to buy the living room set as well as the uh-MA-zing desk set. Donations
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I am working on the promotional materials for the Angeles Chorale and their 9/11 concert. This was my first idea but was rejected in favor of something that fit the theme of the event more appropriately. I still love this poster, and building it took me back to that Tuesday morning as I drove to work while listening to the events unfold via radio newscast. Years later, I had the opportunity to walk around the perimeter of Ground Zero and words can’t describe the heartbreak I felt, even as new construction was well underway. 10 years later, our prayers still go out to those directly...
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This is a new category for blog posts and will make it easy for me to update from time to time. Art In The Wild is little pieces of art that I find here and there. It could be a book cover, a logo, a store front, a natural occurrence, an outfit- whatever. Art lives everywhere and this category is here to point some of it out. I love this book cover. Seems to tell the whole story. I know they say not to judge a book by its cover, but that rule is usually applicable when the cover sucks. In this case, you might wanna judge a book by its cover. Based on the artwork, this looks like...
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It has been since December that we’ve posted an update. We figured a quick glimpse into some of our work is long overdue. Not only have we been busy as usual with design, but plenty of other creative ventures as well. The only bad part of the last 6 months has been an April 1st hard drive crash that left us empty handed and brought business to an absolute standstill for weeks. You can imagine how NOT funny it was to have to explain to clients that, “no. This is not, in fact, an April Fool’s joke”. But, alas, three weeks and $1,900 in data recovery later, we were back...
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A Costa Mesa, CA megachurch hired us to build the visuals for a recent sermon series. The premise was that each person has their own “bucket list” of things that they want to accomplish before dying. In coming up with the message, we racked our brains making our lists just to see which ones were more universal. Beyond that, part of the brainstorming was to find archetypes of bucket list events. The one that we kept coming back to was The Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. It seems like one of those things people wax poetic about doing before they die. We chose it as one of the...
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Azusa Pacific University sends out a team of musicians each summer on a tour of the nation. This is the second year that we’ve had the pleasure of designing their concert posters for the venues. A very nice compliment to us- they were unable to choose between the designs and opted to send two of these to
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The Community Action of Ventura County folks asked us to build some posters that would be placed inside city buses in Ventura County. The message was to promote their Home Energry Assistance Program for low-income residents, which is a project to help residents improve their home for better energy conservation. It’s good for the residents and ultimately it helps the State of California in times of economic and energy crisis. In the pat, some of the ads featured despondent and downtrodden people, but we chose to use more uplifting and empowering
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Not only were we hired to do the artwork for this music project, but our very own Corey Witt played guitars and wrote two of the six songs on this jazz fusion project by Rosy Rosenquist. For our directions, Rosy pointed out that he loved clean spaces, zen-like tranquility, and stark whites. But he also wanted us to make sure that the exclamation point in the title was a point of interest as well. He liked the idea that one could be in a place of peace but also feel compelled into action by the music. For the last comp, we took some liberty with the title, changing “hear now!” to...
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