Client: BMF Media Group My Role(s): Designer Tide threw a free concert in New Orleans commemorating the fifth anniversary of both Hurricane Katrina and the Tide Loads of Hope program. Faith Hill performed. In terms of conceptual design, we did do some initial brainstorming and conceptualizing, but Tide already had a marketing campaign for Loads of Hope using a grid of images from their travels around the country, so we ultimately decided to go with something similar, adding more “grout” between the tiles and using more negative space in general. There were three general visual designs happening throughout the space; 1) the face mosaic on white with pattern variations, 2) banners of solid orange with an occasional Tide Loads of Hope logo, and 3) a white field bordered by orange or blue with blue text. The event had a very strong brand presence. In addition to the signage, laminates and mezzanine banners, I also made long hanging banners for the alcoves and stage in the performance hall, inset wall panels for the VIP room, a step-and-repeat, various foamcore elements, window decals, stickers and directions cards. Link:

Here is another post in the Faces and Logos series. I don’t know exactly what’s happening in this photo, but it’s interesting and worth sharing. This is a step and repeat I designed for Perez Hilton’s One Night in Chicago.

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Client: BMF Media Group My Role(s): Designer This is another of the “One Night” events that I’ve been involved with.  You can take a look at my One Night in Toronto post or One Night in London post for any more info about the design scheme in general. For “Chicago” in the logo, I took a famous sign in Chicago and flipped it and it’s letters from vertical to horizontal, then vectorized it with a sort of hand-drawn look to it. In the background, the image of sunset over Chicago is a great image by Kevin Dooley. I vectorized an image of the Chicago skyline looking south from North Ave Beach by Monika Thorpe. The Perez logo and the Perez Presents head were supplied from the client. I also made evites, a web rsvp, bar decals, bar menus, door tags, vertical sponsor banners, a stage banner, sponsor banners and a sign for the help desk. Link:

Back in 2008, Robert Carrasco, Bill’s brother and a vocalist featured on both In Every Direction and Amor y frijoles, produced a video of himself skateboarding to send to a friend. He chose our song When the Furious Leaves as the soundtrack. Check out the video on our Youtube channel or watch it directly below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmAiNnrAyNI

Client: Personal My Role(s): Designer, Developer One day when looking at traffic cameras online, I realized that there must be innumerable live image feeds on the internet and the voyeur in me decided to take a sort of survey of what I could find. I eventually found a set of National Parks webcams that gave me a surprising feeling of peace, as if I were actually there. This video shows a series of image sequences obtained through a simple PHP script written to download images from three of those U.S. National Park web-cameras every 30 minutes. The script ran for a few weeks in late June and early July 2010 and captured a sequence of images from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Point Reyes National Seashore. Nights were removed from the sequences along with any damaged images from camera errors (the Point Reyes camera was offline for several days). Frame blending was used to smooth over the jerkiness. The music is “Venus Moonrise” from Agua Trip’s album “Genetics”. The earth image is from the famous images taken from the Galileo space probe as it sped away from Earth on its way out into the unknown.

Hi everyone, we just uploaded another video to our Youtube channel. This one uses Venus Moonrise as the audio track. Please take a look below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNpEq0tGmjU

Sometimes I still marvel at how one can design something in one environment (like my comfortable quiet office) and how that same thing can end up showing up in the opposite of settings. Please take for example a step and repeat from the Jersey Shore Soundtrack Release, which was born with some genre of calm and soothing music in the background, and then grew up and moved to Jersey and now look where it ended up. Aw, it makes me so proud. Wink.

Client: BMF Media Group My Role(s): Designer This was a pretty standard project. The client delivered some logo collateral and the album cover and asked me to create certain elements for the event. They also asked me to make a few original pieces including a replica of a Jersey Shore welcome sign and a header for a tattoo station sign. They wanted the tattoo sign to have an “Ed Hardy” feel to it. After searching the web for creative commons tattoo elements (a few of them coming from the vector artist Ben Johnson), I felt I had a decent collage. The “Jersey Shore” font is called Freebooter Script and the “Tattoos” font is called Tattoo Ink. I also worked on banners, decals, and other signs.

Seeing that we just moved to the neighborhood about six months ago, we didn’t know what to expect when we received a neighborly letter informing/reminding/warning us about the annual Thirth of July Street Party that was to go down right across the street from our place on Ordway and North 12th Street. All I can say is it was really fun. There were Jolly Rogue Sneaux Balls, people twirling sparkly sticks, and live music. Though we didn’t indulge (meat is murder, duh), they even had BBQ from Oinker’s/Crazy Calvin’s for the carnivores out there. Thee Phanton 5ive and The Minor Keys played, but we missed them and only caught the last two bands, Heypenny and the Eastside Bulldogs. I captured a short video clip of Heypenny playing “CopCar” and you can watch it below.

The proceeds ($10 at the plastic fence) went to East Nashville Flood Relief. And in the morning, it was like nobody had even been there. Magic. I recommend everyone and anyone to come down next year and enjoy the festival.

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Client: BMF Media Group My Role(s): Designer This is another of the “One Night” events that I’ve been involved with. Feel free to look at my One Night in Toronto post for any general notes about the two designs. For this event, I went London-moody and decided to desaturate the elements and go with a grayer color palette. I also added a glow effect to several of the elements. In order to reference London’s literary history, I applied a sort of etching or lithograph effect to the head image and title logo and chose a cool free font called Mido for the type. The Union Jack image in the background is from a vector of a UK Naval flag and the skyline is composed of vectors of London landmarks. Unfortunately, I no longer can tell you where I found the constable’s helmet. I also made evites, a web rsvp, AO boards, an all-access pass and a sponsor poster.

Client: BMF Media Group My Role(s): Designer I based this design heavily on Clearasil’s Science of Looking Awesome campaign imagery, replicating its grayish blue/white gradient, the little “science lines” and the white concave footer. I have often found amusement in the use of pseudo-scientific elements in pharmaceutical/cosmetic advertising and now I got to play my part. In that spirit, I was asked to design a mock periodic table showcasing the different “elements” that one could use to look awesome. Initially, I tried to group the “elements” into common themes, trying to replicate the order of the actual periodic table, but the client decided they wanted it to appear random, so I jumbled them up. Overall, I enjoyed making that piece. One of the event’s themes was relaxation/meditation and they wanted to make sure guests could remain undisturbed while getting some beauty sleep, so I was asked to design special “do not disturb” door tags. Visitors also were able to choose a free Sounds of Beauty Sleep CD and I threw together a little card for people to choose which compilation they desired. I also made signs for CDs, media check-in and the relaxation zone, plus I resized campaign images and threw the Clearasil logo into decals of varying sizes.

Client: BMF Media Group My Role(s): Designer The “One Night” event series has been going on for a while now and I inherited an aesthetic concept, namely the skyline with the Perez Presents head peeking over it. For my part, I chose to create a rich night sky using a blue gradient and two Creative Commons photos from Flickr, one of the aurora borealis and the other of a starfield. I also wanted to change the hair color back to pink (the file I received had green hair). For the “One Night in Toronto” typography, I chose Benton Condensed for a clean, modern look. I found a simply illustrated silhouette of the Toronto skyline at http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1115557 and a great vector of a flapping  Canadian flag at http://www.vectortemplates.com/vector-countries-canada.php. I just turned the Canadian red into a nice PH pink. In addition to the examples shown here, I also threw together evites, a web rsvp, bar menus and a sponsor poster.

Client: BMF Media Group My Role(s): Designer BMF approached me to create elements for Malibu’s First Day of Summer event they were throwing on the Solstice. They sent me the main elements (the “radiomaliboomboom” and “First Day of Summer” logos and the radio tower) and I was to place elements, to design body typography and to come up with a color scheme as well as perform basic image formatting tasks. I designed the look of the web rsvp form, including the evite on the left side and a form on the right. I also created evites, two wall vinyls, a stage banner, an artist credential and an image for a DVD still and a bar menu.

Client: Jiujitsucalendar My Role(s): Designer, Developer, Data Architect, Copywriter This site is a searchable database of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu tournaments. It has numerous fun useful tools including numerous search methods (by promoter, by date and by a radial location search), a manageable calendar for registered users with the option to import the calendar into other ical readers like Google Maps or Apple iCalendar, and a map showing various data (events in a user’s calendar, search results, whole event database). This site is probably beating the Battery Plant Database as the most useful site I have created so far, and we have several updates to the site’s functionality in the works. This was a full-fledged design project for me. Apart from help from a couple open-sourced codebases (see below), I designed everything myself from the graphic design through the data architecture to the site’s code. The visual design went through numerous drafts. The color scheme was based on the floor mats (tatami) used in many American Jiu-jitsu tournaments. Good old red[, white] and blue. The logo is again based on the tatami, namely the way several tatami are placed together to create the larger grappling area. The text section of logo uses Arial Black as the font. I created the banner ad from an image of the site owner in a  tournament, did some effecting and (as a sort of joke) threw in the exciting splattery stuff in the background. I think it came out pretty well. The site uses a few open source chunks of code for some of its heavy lifting, such as PHPICalendar for the site’s calendar interface and the Google Maps API. I custom-coded the rest (MYSQL, PHP, XHTML, CSS, ICS, XML), creating both a backend CMS and the front-end user  interface, and it was quite a load to get through. I love projects that really make me learn, and this one really pushed me to expand my skill-set even further. I am glad we finally got something up. Now it’s time for the analysis.