Famous?

My design for the Alcohol Awareness week poster that will be up in all the Aggie Shuttle Buses!

Killer Site: Audio Intros

This is pretty much the second full website I've ever designed. I usually just do header/body/footer images that go into a template my dad created. This, however, is a part of a spectacularly fun project, because I made part of the product being sold, I designed the entire layout, I'm working on the code and am even getting hover-states in there, plus, this has been my little experiement/chance to redesign the sales process for Syncnet. If this is a success, I will hopefully start Revamping all of our sales pages, 'cause I'm absolutely sick and disgusted when I look at and read through the standard 2001 sales pages. Look out world, our new sites are killer.

Cake Business Cards

My shot at business cards for Frosted on Top.

Missile

Tip of a missile from a fighter plane on the aircraft-carrier-turned-US Maritime Museum at San Diego. Very cool. I did a really good job beefing up this image in Photoshop.

Deep

This is THE strongest piece in my portfolio right now, the one I'm most proud of, and it is flippin' tight! Ah! I love the deep, so I was super excited to learn I could deviate from the mainstream of my classmates' subjects; we could chose between making our brochure on the British Natural History Museum or the Victoria and Albert Museum (art), and I took it a step farther and did it specifically on an upcoming exhibit of the NHM: The Deep. I like to stare at my cover.

Inner spread. Much more simplified than my originals. So sweet.

The back-cover. Very nice. My teacher only had a few details of corrections for me in critique just before the BFA review, which was so nice. My cover was also the only one he said really "seduced" him--the ultimate objective that he stressed throughout this project--so that made me super happy. Sigh.

Phi

Our last assignment in Typograpy was to choose a Greek letter and write at least 100 words about it, then use that copy, the symbol and display text to create three designs, each emphasizing one of the three elements. This one was by far my strongest piece of the three I created, and I like it alot, even though I had to print it out 4 times to get it to be the right size, so I wasted a good 75 cents or so on it...This one was meant to emphasize the symbol.

I don't really like this one any more, but it's better than my third piece, which I will not post until I redo it. This one was to emphasize the display text (title).

Hell

In typography, we made images for a quote and put 'em together. This is not what I did for the assignment, but the quote was one of my peer's, and I thought I'd try my hand at it. The actual quote is just the first line of text.

MSE Identity

Brand new logo for a brand new site. I think this is one of my more successful logos.

Proposed website-design, without title/tagline text on header and the links/copyright on footer.

Sneak Peek

Cool little thing I cooked up during the break for the Audio Intros.

There We Go

Pretty proud of this here image, I gotta say. It's for a product we're launching as a part of another product: Royalty-Free Audio Intros, some of which I created, perfect for presentations, websites, movies, etc. ;)

Off With My Headers

I've been making some pretty good headers lately, especially when compared to my old stuff, but it seems like no one is actully liking them :(. This one is for ezicing--I'm trying to Revamp it to get the quality of the site and its visual happiness to be equal. However, my mom promptly said she didn't like it.

Try #2, throw in the dots. She likes the dots, but still says something's wrong...

Try #3, didn't like the "squares," so she likes it without them, but still doesn't like it...Someday I shall conquer this project.

I did this one a while ago, thoroughly proud of the great new logo, the typography, the color scheme. I sent it to my dad and...rejected! He said there's no color! I didn't want there to be much color, I thought the nice cold business scheme was gonna work out...It's still my favorite, but I also like my last header.

Magazine Spreads

My final project in Computers and Art. I had to design two spreads, a content page, and a cover for a magazine--thus, I made up Simply Cake Decorating, my mom's personal cake exhibition magazine. Right now, it's free of charge, but there are limited supplies, so get one quick. Also, be sure to check out the new charity that's opened up, I call it, "The Jess Brown Foundation For Starving Artist College Kids Who've Played Lacrosse And Drums And Halo And Who Speak German And Who Go To USU And Are Freaking Awesome Even Though They Have No Money So Donate To Us." Like it? I do.

Valley of Predators Revisited

I re-did my book cover so I could chop the minus off my grade, and I certainly do like my title better. Note that this is an image to be printed, which is why the picture is lightened kinda strangely, but based on how dark the copy center's been printing, this probably would be quite beautiful :D. I also added little jeep details in the lights on the back cover.

Gangsta Pics

'Cause we are freaking awesome!

Book Cover: Valley of Predators

My computers and art project. It's 10" x 18" and freakin' awesome. The arm is my roommate's, and I really like how my picture turned out after playing with it in Photoshop for so long. If you'll notice the bottom right-hand corner, it's brought to you by Phobia Publishing--recognize the logo? It's from my first comp and art project! Genius!

We're Certified!

Icons to be placed on sites to reassure the customer the site is tested, trusted, and certified. These are pretty cool, I think. I love the second one, 'cause I can use the technique for other things, just happened upon the effect by accident. Love it!

Web 2.0 Sales Page

DazzleBright Teeth Whitening Sales Page
I think this is my first successful web 2.0 web design, and it's certainly my favorite design I've made for sales pages, although Syncnet's probably not gonna use it, I learned a lot of good stuff at work on this one. This is actually not finished, because I was waiting for pictures that were never given to me, which explains the unfinished bottom and not-so-personal feel of the page. I also don't have a logo for the product.

Time For Change

I'm getting tired of this header now, so prepare for a new in the near future. It's still cool, though, so I want to keep it on here.

Quick Pics

Shoshone Falls, Idaho

Train at Golden Spike

Today I Made...

...a cool icon for default profile pictures (before someone adds his own picture). First Syncnet work done in a while.

Happy news, I got a ranking of 4th place in the contest, and here's proof. Hopefully it'll stay up there!