Graphic Design
GRAPHICS & ART CREATION
As a graphic designer, I am not content to leave my film work up to the interpretation of another marketer. These are the logos, posters, DVD labels and various pieces of art I have created for my multimedia projects. While collateral material like brochures have fallen out of usage, I provide some examples to show my use of color, shape and space. Each are created in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign.
DESIGN SAMPLES
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New York's Rockefeller Center held an open contest for designers to create flags celebrating the city. I created this design and it was chosen as of of 180 selected from 2000 submission. An 8' X 5' flag was created from this and flown with the others as part of 30 Rock's art installation.
This is not my own design. An advertising firm gave me a poster that looked like this but they had lost the original document and they asked me if I could recreate it. I did so using Photoshop and Illustrator.
I designed this classic sepia and monochrome poster and DVD cover to pair with the historical and agricultural details of my film.
Covering a period from the 1950s to the 21st Century, this film required a design that was at once retro and modern.
A call sheet designed with the same quilt pattern idea-page 1. You can see my continuance of the quilting theme.
A call sheet designed with the same quilt pattern idea-page-2.
SPOTLIGHT ON
THE ROCKEFELLER
CENTER FLAG INSTALLATION
In 2020, Rockefeller Center held an open art competition, asking artists to design a flag that reflected something special about New York City. Over 2,000 entries came from around the world and they selected 180 to be flown in their famous court of flags. I am fortunate enough to say my flag was one of those chosen.
I used Coney Island as my inspiration and used their famous mermaid festival as part of the imagery.
The flags were flown for three months, as my flag design is seen below.
SPOTLIGHT ON
THE CRYPTIDS swag for SXSW
For The History Project, I created a fun video & podcast for Halloween to celebrate the cryptids of West Virginia. I hand drew each of them and then transferred them into Adobe Illustrator, where I brushed them up.
While still in Illustrator, I created comic books for each to augment the storytelling and add some humor. The final video, edited in After Effects, was so well received that the West Virginia Film Office wished to sue the cryptids as their mascots for their "swag," handouts to be given out at the SXSW Media Festival in Austin and other events.
My original sketches before transferring them to Adobe Illustrator
View the video that inspired the swag above.
The metal pins promoting the W.V. Film Office with their
adopted mascots, the Cyrptids of the Mountain State.
PACKAGING
THE LEGACY OF THE LAND
For my documentary, The Legacy of the Land, I also created the branding and packaging. DVDs were to be disseminated to schools and libraries, so I created this two-disc set in InDesign.
The back of the case design.
The interior of the case & the
DVD covers.
MAPMAKING
Due to the nature of highways projects and documentaries, it has been necessary that I create maps that can be animated. These are the many maps I created that represent different historical and cultural aspects that were used in animation to support my written content.
