Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Website Redo

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

I recently rebranded echa.me, a file-sharing service. The rebranding included both web design and logo. The site is simple and rather minimalistic, which corresponds with the site’s ultimate goal of being a simple, unobtrusive file-sharing service. The site was designed in Adobe Illustrator, and the HTML was edited in emacs. Their new site should be up soon now!

Graduation Announcement

Sunday, July 18th, 2010

My sister-in-law graduated from high-school, and rather than buy pre-made announcements, she had her relative-graphic designer help her out (me). My photographer friend, Amanda, took the photos, which I then put into this announcement. The silhouette in the background is a cut out of one of the pictures.

Logo Refresh

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

I recently refreshed a campaign logo for Judy Guglielmana, a local elected official. I wanted to keep the basic idea she has used with past elections, and clean it up a little to make it more contemporary. Below is the original artwork.

The following is the revised logo. The stars remained present, but more subdued in grey. I also added the wave in red. The font is now a uniform size, making it look more “classy,” and is also no longer disproportioned horizontally. I am very pleased with how the new logo turned out. It looks good in color as well as in white knockout on dark colors.

An old sketch revisited

Monday, May 31st, 2010

A while ago I posted some drawings of MR2s that I made once. I decided to see if I could add color to them and make them look a little better. I was going to try using gradient meshes to accomplish this, but got frustrated, and instead used Gaussian blurs to accomplish shading and highlights. It is by no means “photo-realistic,” but I think it still turned out interesting. Let me know what you think!

Paper iPad/iPhone Stand

Monday, April 26th, 2010

I’ve seen some pretty inexpensive iPad docks, but I thought I could take the next step to make one that is virtually free! I made this little beauty out of a single piece of paper. Well, it actually took 3 pieces of paper in order to work out all the bugs, but at $0.015 a sheet, this thing ran me a little less than a nickel!

Admittedly, this was originally designed for just iPhones (seeing as I haven’t purchased an iPad yet), but surprisingly worked well for iPads too, as the following image demonstrates!

Its very simple to make your own!
  • Download the template
  • Print it out (preferably on thick paper!)
  • Cut it out (and scoring it makes it easier too)
  • Glue it
  • Enjoy!

There you have it! Download the file and get to it, and make your own sub-nickel iPhone/iPad stand!