All Employee All Agency: Mockup

Here’s a mockup of a type treatment and web layout that I designed last week. Since the web layout has your standard “blog” look to it, I thought I’d add some depth to the title bar. So, using Illustrator, I created a 3D look using just a few layers and some shadows. This allowed for a very crisp, clean look without the use of a 3D program. Granted, I could have achieved a similar look using a 3D program but, opted not to this time. All-in-all, I think it turned out well.

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Some hand drawn lettering

Just wanted to share some of my latest hand drawn type treatments. I’ve been asked to come up with a lot of “tattoo style” lettering lately and these are a few of the sketches that I come up with. I actually really like to do these. It’s an easy way to experiment with different looks before you start to vector them out. Plus, you can do this anywhere and don’t have to be sitting in front of your computer the whole time. It also takes me back to high school when everyone would ask me to draw on their books or write on their jeans. Enjoy – S

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CTO in 3D

The other night I was playing around with this CTO logo and thought I’d throw it into Swift3D to see what I kinda of depth I could give it. Not bad for about 20 min. worth of work. – S

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Congrats to the twins!!!

No, not the Minnesota Twins. 2 of my cousins (Alexandra & Tyler: a.k.a. The Twins) will be graduating this weekend and since I won’t be able to make it to Minnesota to see them I wanted to give them a big shout out and say…

CONGRATS YOU TWO!!!!!!!!! We’re all proud of you! Hope ya have a great summer!

The image below was created for their mother, my aunt Marsha. She asked me to design a tattoo armband with the Twins names in it. I think it turned out nice. Now, we’ll have see if she gets it. The top is the pencil sketch that I came up with and the bottom is the final vector image. Enjoy – S

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Type Treatments 02

Here are some new type treatments that I have worked on over the last few months. The clients wanted anything from basic to way out, so I gave it my all and came up with a few. Here are a few of the end results. Enjoy – S

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One Ummah
These were for an old friend of mine that has an up and coming clothing company with an urban appeal called “One Ummah”. I’m also working on some T-shirt designs for them.

The Denver Shop
These were for my boy Tony down at the “The Denver Shop“. The top 2 were logo options and the others are more for T-shirt or deck designs. I’m also working on his website and will be posting more on it later this week.

IMIRT
I really enjoyed coming up with these. They’re for a company in Ireland called “IMIRT“. I was told that the Irish definition the word means “play”. The brief called for something new yet grungy looking.

Unpaid Work!

Here is a logo that my boy “MechahateChimp” and I created awhile back and never got paid for. I hate cheap-ass people that need work right away but never seem to pay right away or ever for that matter! Bastards! Anyway, I thought it was a nice piece and figured it should see some love. – S

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Type Treatments 01

For the last couple of years I have been watching the work of Hydro74, GoMedia and Maxx242. Their illustrations are great but the one thing that has always inspired me is their logo and type treatments. Some of their treatments seem to have that grungy yet sophisticated feel of biker/tattoo lettering. Very inspirational to me.

Here are a couple of my own treatments that I am currently roughing out. – S

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