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Scout Books
They asked for employee portraits. This is what we made. More info here >>>
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The Portland Mercury Covers
Since Fall 2009, I’ve been designing covers for this weekly arts/music/trouble-making newspaper. EVERY WEEK!!! That’s a lot or covers, right? Unlike most alternative weeklies this one does not insist on running art on the cover that’s directly related to the featured story. This has allowed me to art direct the world’s most talented and cutting edge artists, illustrators, and photographers.
(Note: all these covers were done with a modest budget of $0-$200)
There are 100+ more HERE >>>
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The Portland Mercury Editorial Features
Editorial design can be really challenging when it comes to communicating ideas with the writers, photographers, and illustrators. I’ve learned a lot about communication working on these layouts. I’ve also learned a lot about balancing the readability of high word counts with the limitations of small page counts, I often have one page to fit a feature that needs 2-3 pages. It’s challenging, but rewarding for sure.
If you’re interested in how a typical feature layout went, check out this blog post by one of my favorite illustrators, Thomas James >>>
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Oregon 365: Ginger and Patty invented this Oregon Tourism website, but Jen and I ran the show the second year. It’s pretty awesome, you should check it out.
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NIKE: Here are two ads I made for the same shoe, but only one got to roll out the door. Which one do you think made it to print?
At the City Park: I think the city park is home to everyday athletes. Since Nike believes everyone is an athlete they should encourage them to go play in the park. Super star athletes get way to much coverage, it’s the regular people who are athletes that truly inspire.
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Grass Hut only runs ads in Giant Robot. GH and GR are buddies.
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Old Spice: It smells like grandpa (in a good way). I thought these posters would look awesome wheatpasted around town on old grandpa-type buildings.
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Target: The Studio. Every holiday season people want to take family photos. Mostly it’s a joke, but wouldn’t it be rad if the holiday photography studio was made of snow???
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Half n’ Half and Acorn: I do branding and ad-making for them in trade. Who needs money when you got fancy sandwiches?
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Is this art direction? I designed a belt buckle that looks like an elk head, that can open beer bottles with it’s mouth and hold a beer bottle in it’s antlers leaving your hands free to cast a fishing pole or flip a burger.
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Home Made Fonts: whatever you are saying feels more personal if it’s done by hand.
