Western Door Logo

I really need to post here more often. This was a recent logo I completed for a San Diego company that makes commercial doors. I had a fun time with it, playing with the gradients to get a shiny and reflective metallic-like look.

I know I need to focus more on creating new content for my portfolio, and new projects, but most of my time lately is going towards finding steady employment, or trying to expand my micro-stock work into as many sites as I can. I spent a lot of time last week trying to get all my work on Fotolia.com, and I still have 30 or 40 more files to upload. This week I thought I would focus on Bigstock.com, and I just applied with DepositePhoto.com. I’m not expecting a lot from the micro-stock work, but I feel I should try to get as much as I can out of what I have right now.

LibraryYOU Header Designs

The last part of the LibraryYOU project was to design a header for their website. I worked up three concepts that I really liked. I heard back from the client yesterday and it looks like they’re going with the first one. This was a fun project and I hope to find more like it in the future.

LibraryYOU Posters

Two posters I did for the Escondido Library project, LibraryYOU. I had a lot of fun working on this project. It allowed me to be more illustrative and do some design work as well. Hopefully I’ll get to do more for them in the future.

What I’ve been up to…

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on here. Not for lack of content, but just haven’t made the time to these last few weeks. I need to keep on this. Also, I need to update my portfolio. Anyhow, here’s some of the projects I’ve been working on since I’ve last posted.

LibraryYOU/ Escondido Library Project

I was contracted a couple months ago to design a logo, business card and promotional posters for an Escondido Library project called “LibraryYOU.” It’s a program to invite the local community in to educate each other and share knowledge, using internet tools like YouTube. I tried to keep the logo fairly simple, but incorporate some of the feelings and elements they were asking for. I’m still working on the poster designs, but below is the card.

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iPalmDesert.com Logo Design

I did this as a favor for a friend and co-worker, who owns this domain name. I actually finished this last week, but didn’t want to post about it until I got final approval from him. Since I was doing it for very little compensation, I tried to keep the overall design pretty simple. I used a palm leaf I found on all-silhouettes.com, and then modified it to get the look I wanted. He seemed pretty pleased with it. Below is a second concept, but it wasn’t coming out like I had in mind, so, even though I showed him both, I suggested that he go with the first.