A few new T-shirt designs I did for Sport Science Lab. Check out all of them in the store.
The mockups were made using some very handy free tshirt templates.
Category: Design
I Just finished a new business card design for myself. The fourth john pezzetti card I’ve designed, and my favorite thus far.
As someone who spends all day rearranging lines of code and graphical elements for clients, it’s hard to find the energy to do so for myself. At the same time, the work I do for myself is the most important stuff I do…after all, would you buy a business card from a designer with a crappy business card? This dynamic makes life hard on me. If only I was a paying customer–even at a discounted rate–I would love working for myself.
Anyhow, I’m happy with my business card, at least at the moment. That’s important as clients only want to hear “This [insert item here] is way old” so many times.
Next up–the website! Check back in 2018.
Check out the Quantum Communications website.
The process to arrive where we did was a fun one. Terry wanted a design in which the user is immediately offered pretty much every service we offer–SEO, re-branding, brand positioning as a bunch of big ass buttons… looking to green your brand? BAM! This was pretty much the idea. He also wanted some kind of a creative element, something to show off our creative side and to hook a potential client.
Meanwhile, floating around in my head was this idea of integrating a passive game into a functional interface. Thus I proposed the basic premise to him, that the user should be able to browse items on the front page and, whether they realize it or not, they will be playing a game in the process.
The content is managed by a Drupal 6 installation. The front page is running mostly on jQuery, and the game is a flash element. The color scheme can be switched very easily–we ran a Halloween theme…until new years.
The next two elements I plan to program in are a user color picker, so users can choose their own color schemes, and a more expansive leader board so my buddy Almu’s unbeatable scores aren’t the only ones the game will track.
Check it out. If you don’t like it, tell me why, I would love to hear about it. Maybe. I might be a little annoyed, but don’t let that stop you.
I’m not going to say that my last design job was as sweet as my current one, but I did get to design two or three show posters a year. You never appreciate what you have until it’s gone, and now that a large portion of the print design I’m doing involves stock photos of attractive + intelligent + confident + multiracial + 30something people I have to lean pretty heavily on my web development projects for creative release.
Well, in what will hopefully be the first of many freelance poster design projects I made this poster for “The Loft” at UCSD, a new wine bar / club / venue that is opening up in a week. I hope you like it!
You can see all the posters I designed earlier in my career at my portfolio.
Finished off a website for the UCSF Mission Bay Art Collective.
Well, the title is misleading. I did have to launch this website in three hours–and it was a pain–but I got to come back in and spend some time on friday cleaning up loose ends and filling in the details, which as I’ve come to realize, are the only thing that make the difference between good web design and websites that look like they were made in Microsoft Word by a non English speaking grandmother.
Marv Marinovich’s Sports Lab v1.0 is off the chopping block. Here is the backstory:
Thursday 2pm
Boss: “So Sports Lab is going to be featured on the NFL Network.”
Me: “Super. Some press will help them out.”
Boss: “They’re on at 4pm today.”
Me: “Wow, and they’re just telling us now?”
Boss: “We need a website up by 4pm.”
Click. Click. Click.
Me: “Damn, forgot to buy bullets.”
Well if you looked at the website Thursday night it was pretty raw, but I got it mostly where I wanted it on Friday. We’re soon to be adding quite a few interactive elements, but for now I’m happy with it as a static web page. Bring on the next project!
When I tell most people that I’m a graphic designer, they seem pleasantly surprised. It seems to conjure up images of me sitting in a meadow sipping coca-cola and sketching logos for some environmental non-profit.
Well, truth be told, that isn’t so far off. Just replace meadow with cave of computers, sketching with vectorizing, and environmental non-profit with “anyone with money”.
I don’t wear much high-contrast clothing and my apartment is very poorly decorated. I think I might have been born to be a computer programmer, but ended up as a graphic designer featuring programming abilities. I think this is why I’m not prepared for the #1 drawback of being a designer–which is that you’re designing for other people, not for yourself.
When I’m writing software, it either works, or it doesn’t. You never have to move a semi-colon a quarter inch to the left.
A very talented friend of mine has opened up a clothing store. It’s still small as i write this, but very promising.
I’m starting to notice an unfortunate trend when I post new work that I’ve completed: none of it is actually complete. It always seems to be rushed–and half finished–but I have a feeling that I won’t get to go back and right any of the wrongs for some time.
Slice of Life | Hero Nutritionals Home | Yummi Bears Home
These were some fun sites to work on. Slice of Life is my favorite. My coworker sold them the idea of a lazy susan, then turned to me and told me to build it. I started with this extremely helpful 3D in Flash Tutorial, got it working just about the way I wanted it to, then plugged in some Trigonometry graciously prepared by my mathematical buddy Pat Jarvis-Shean, and the result was slick. I wouldn’t mind taking some more time to clean up the loading sequence and the effect when the user rolls out of the movie, but for the time being it works well.
The Hero Nutritionals homepage is pretty straight forward, I’m sure there will be more content soon. The Yummi Bears homepage will be filled up with flash games and the like soon when we install the Yummi Zone.
Here are links to a couple of other sites I recently designed: Mitsven Surfboards, Simonek Law.
Finished an invitation for a product launch from Hero Nutritionals. The card is die-cut into the shape of this product.
The first image is the final, the second is my mockup. Needless to say I prefer my own version, but the final piece looks nice nonetheless.
