Graphic Design
With websites, good design is design that is done so well, it is invisible. Seems counter to the idea of design, but it's true: the best websites don't make the user think, "Why is that picture there?" or "What is this doing there?" Good website design means that every element's presence makes sense to the user. Most of these principles also apply to print media as well, though the restrictions of space pose its own set of challenges.
A logo is often the first way a product, website, publication, or individual makes an impression on the viewer. As such, designing a logo can be a complex process. How does one cram the identity one wishes to convey into a small image? This is my job as a designer. To craft an image that makes the viewer instantly understand what the bearer of the logo is all about.
Client Work
I have done a wide variety of design, including for web and print, as well as logos. Please see my company's website at www.tridea-design.com.
Gallery
I spend many, many hours absorbed with creating provocative and interesting things, and here is a small selection of them. Here are desktop-sized wallpapers that you can plaster on your computer! I simply ask that you do not remove my logo or tamper with these images in any way. I think they're fine the way they are!
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Mock Nissan GT-R Ad
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I had come across some studio shots of one of my dream cars, and had to create a promo for it. At the time, I was experimenting with light effects and layer blendings, and so those techniques were incorporated here.
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Caged
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A piece that stemmed from finding the photo of the tiger behind a chain-link fence, and the challenge became to create a sense of division.
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Nightmare
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I challenged myself to find a bunch of creepy or wild photos and then mash them up into a nightmarish piece; can you spot the octopus?
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Mythos
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By fusing several photoshopped pictures that never really developed into a desktop, I created this piece.
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Mock Raccoon Industries Ad 1/4
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After downloading some new fonts, I liked one in particular, and paired it with a vectorization project I had started to practice the pen tool. The result was a mock promotional ad for my fictitious company, Raccoon Industries. The branding exercise proved to be so fun, it generated two more.
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Mock Raccoon Industries Ad 2/4
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The second in the series. I had a phenomenal shot of some lightning that were a blast to electroshock my fake company's logo with!
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Mock Raccoon Industries Ad 3/4
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The product of brushwork and a few color-tweaked layers mixed together using mainly dark blends.
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Mock Raccoon Industries Ad 4/4
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After seeing a pointilized painting in person, I was inspired to attempt to try to simulate a painted texture myself. I chose to begin from a photo of a castle, but I doubt it's very obvious by the time I was through with it! Adding the logo allowed me to "fill in" the sky.
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Horizon
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Inspired by the simple and stark black-and-white tone of "Sin City", I wanted to try my hand at creating something with the same effect. It turned out less gritty, and more ephemeral and haunting than anything else.
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Deliverance
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Created from a screenshot from "Fight Club", this is my homage to one of my favorite movies. As for the book, I am on my third copy: the last two were read into oblivion.
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End Days
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I was very mad when I made this. Can you tell? (Don't ask me what skyline that is, I just drew one using the pen tool. No city has been targeted in this desktop, okay!)
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Haunted
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Many thanks to all those talented photographers at the Stock Exchange for the source photos here. They worked perfectly. Used the burn tool extensively here.
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Fierce 137 Branding exercise
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I seized another opportunity to turn around another project with my F137 logo, and approached it as a branding exercise. The result is something I'd expect to see if Fierce137 were marketing toward the music art sector, as this could possibly be used as CD liner art.
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F137 Icon
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A short exercise inspired by street art.
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The Window
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I wrote that poem, in case you're wondering.
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Stacks
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A sitting's effort. I wanted to experiment with blending images to create a single cohesive picture. In addition, the incorporation of text to heighten the image's rhetorical meaning was another challenge.
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Underneath
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Made from scratch. No images were manipulated here. Just randomly messing around, I came up with the main background. I felt sucked in, and was compelled to embellish the feeling with a situational context. The fish, hook, boat, and divers were drawn in. One by one. I used the undo shortcut so many times trying to get those fish to look right!
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Man Alive
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By far, one of my favorite desktops I've produced. Something about it haunts me, and makes me stare at it every time I pull it up. Every once in a while, I'll put it back on my desktop and it'll stay there for weeks.
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Gunman
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That, in case you're wondering, is a .44 Magnum Automag. "And if properly used, can remove fingerprints." Ten points if you know where that came from without Googling it.
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FireIce
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This was an attempt to play with the "Render Clouds" functions as well as layer blends. I wound up using fire colors to create the base set, then used a black and white gradient difference-blended on top of the base to get the negative icy colors to come out.
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Fireblast
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The final product of combining what I learned in a day cruising around tutorials on Good Tutorials. This work demonstrates my grasp of creating patterns, layer blending, manipulating plain ol' render-clouds, and gradient use.
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