Shops at the EastSide

As you know I have been doing work for the EastSide Restaurant, where I also work in the gift shop.  There are really three stores there, Giftwrecked the shop, the Bakery, and the Clothing Boutique.  I did a new logo for the Shops at the EastSide, and also made a Facebook Page, where you can keep in touch with specials and sales.

Included in the shops is a Bridal Boutique and Prom Dress / Tuxedo Rentals.  Here are some of the ads and posters I have been doing to promote the business.

Ray's Electric

Logo and business card for Ray's Electric.  I'm also working on logos and business cards for the restaurant gift shop where I've been working this summer.  Now that the summer rush is winding down, I plan on getting some more paintings done too.  

Butterworks Farm

I recently did a logo design for Butterworks Farm, a local dairy farm in the area.  This design will be on their 5lb grain bags.  

The granary building was a fairly new construction and they wanted it shown in a drawn by pen and ink style.  The farm is really beautiful and very Vermontish, here are some pictures of it. 

Merry Christmas!!!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!!!

Some New Designs

Hello, here are some more t-shirt designs!

The first one is inspired by Britney Spears' song 3, and the other two are from the Real Housewives of Atlanta. I will make some for the rest of the housewives so everyone can have a shirt for the favorite one. You can check them out HERE.

T-Shirts

Hello everyone! I finally decided to look into designing some t-shirts. I have always wanted to just make simple designs that I would like to have on clothes, and maybe you would as well. You can look at my store HERE, and see the first few that I have made. The great thing about this site is that you can take the designs and put them on any of the products they have available, from t-shirts, hoodies, tote bags, and baby clothes. So let me know what you think of my designs, and if there are things you would like to see. Here are some of what I have so far.

Shota

Shota from The Legend of the Seeker.

Darken Rahl

Darken Rahl from The Legend of the Seeker. The tv version is quite different than the book version. In the book Rahl is blond and wears white robes, as the villain of the series it might have been cool to see him look not so sinister for the tv series. He is played be Craig Parker who you might remember as Haldir from the Lord of the Rings movies.

Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, wizard of the first order, from The Legend of the Seeker.

Hoot Hoot

Just a little vector drawing I did in Illustrator, I like owls.

Richard Cypher

Richard Cypher, the Seeker.

Khalan Amnell

Anyone else excited for the second season of Legend of the Seeker?

Jay Peak

Hello! Just to keep things updated, I got an internship at Jay Peak Resort which is the big ski mountain in the town over. I'll be helping make posters and ads for events that come up, so I'm excited about it. It's good experience and will help add to my portfolio. Now I just have to keep looking for paid work. Here is the first thing I worked on, a poster for the Arts & Crafts Fair, it will be printed in three sizes, 8.5x11, 5.5x8.5, and 11x17.

I will also be doing newspaper ads for the event, and those will be black and white of various sizes. The weather is starting to get cooler, and fall is going to arrive soon! I also have a bunch of canvases so expect some more paintings in the near future!

Cap Sac 2

Another Cap Sac ad...

Website Update

Howdy ya'll, just an update as to where I am in making my site. I have a better layout, I made it in Illustrator, then exported it into Photoshop and used the slice tool to place it in Dreamweaver. The slice tool is god's gift to web designers. I makes creating a layout so much easier! Now I'll be working on filling the site out, adding content, and organizing the galleries. Any suggestions are welcome! (And finally the weather is getting nice!)

http://tal535.aisites.com/G444/thlich/final/index.html

A Mood Board

This is a mood board. We had to make one for class. You pick 16 colors that you feel match you well, then three of your best designs, that show who you are as a designer. And then 10 adjectives that describe you, and images that also represent you. It was fun making it, you all should try one too!

What Can Your Sneakers Grow?

Greetings to you all! Well we are about 60% moved to the downstairs, we have a few more rooms to completely clear, and then we have to clean upstairs really good and paint some walls. The new tenet moves in on the 20th. And my next class starts on monday, so having some extra time this week I finally started working on some things for this really cool website. It is called Zooppa and its a site that various companies come to with ideas for products, and members of the site can design video, print, and banner ads for them.
What you do is create a profile, and then look through the various competitions going on, and if you see one that sparks your creative juices, design something, and upload it. Once your ad is uploaded, everyone can see it, and vote on it. The more votes you get, the higher in rank it moves up. Once the competition ends, the ads with the highest rankings get Zooppa bucks. Once you reach 1,000 Zooppa bucks, you can transform it into dollars. So if you get 1,000 Zooppa bucks, you get $1,000. Ofcourse it is not a given that you will even win anything, and prizes range in amount, the company also awards ads that they may like that the rest of the community didn't. I think this is a great site, it gives you a project brief, just like working with a real client, and it also connects you with other designers, and you get to see some great minds at work.
I entered my first competition today, for Brooks Running Shoes. They have a new product called BioMoGo, the first-ever biodegradable running shoe midsole. -"BioMoGo’s microbial munch rate is a staggering 50 times faster, biodegrading nutrients into reusable byproducts within 20 years! That means that within 20 years time, Brooks alone will save 29.9 million pounds of landfill waste." - So I created this print ad, featuring the Cascadia 4 running shoe. I took a picture from a XC race of myself, and made it into a flower person. So the idea is once the sneaker degrades, what will grow from it? Maybe a running flower person? The competition goes until May 7th, and you can submit as many ads as you want, I definately want to do some more, any ideas...?

If You Were A Superhero....

If you were a superhero what powers would you have? I know that I would want to fly, and maybe have some kind of telekinetic thing going on too. I drew this in Illustrator, me as one of the X-Men. I have with me my two favorite mutants, Gambit and Storm. I like my costume, though I hardly have the body to pull that off, lol. I experimented a lot with color and gradients. The lightning and cards in Gambits hands were tricky to do, I had to play around to get the glowing effect. Well sounds like Prof. X is calling us, time to go save the world! ;oP

Final Projects

Hello! Today I finished my Advanced Computer Graphics course, although I am not sure if I learned too much in the ways of advanced graphics. Our project was to design a direct mail campaign for a non-profit organization. I choose the Memphremagog Arts Collaborative, and each fall they have an event called Art On Main. The whole main street is closed and artists can set up booths to sell things, and there are concerts through out the day. I decided to do a postcard for the mailer, I had the idea of framing main street and showing it as "art."

This is an actual picture of Newport's Main Street, I used Photoshop to get the painted effect, and I added the lamp post and banner. I used Illustrator to do the backside.

We also had to create some add ons for the campaign. These could be anything to give people as a way of saying thank you for supporting the event. I decided to have a t-shirt, and bumper sticker, I figure that there would be a good amount of exposure for the event with people wearing them, and having the logo on their cars.

We also had to design a black and white newspaper ad, and a website layout for the event. I like the way the newspaper ad came out, I wanted to use the pallet because it was a recognizable graphic image and people would be able to connect it with the event.
My next class doesn't start until April 6, so I have a nice little break. I'll be busy moving everything to the downstairs, and painting and cleaning to make the upstairs rentable. Hopefully I will be able to get some fun things in, and I'll post them here. Ciao!