Many, many hours of retouching in this publication. 4 pages of 11 x 17 full color. All the imagery came from different sources and had to be scanned, color-corrected and scaled up. The content from the client was the worst. Eventually I was able to get uniform color hues and achieve a balanced look for the piece. THEN I added my own touches, such as the jet in the clouds which was a composite from 3 photographs. I guess, in the end, I mark this one down as a technical achievement as much as a design piece. I’m hoping I was able to give it a sophisticated and stylish look which is what italian jewelry is all about anyway.

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For this piece I wanted to create a formal-looking layout and let the bright, vibrant colors of the photos, punch holes in the white-space. My influence on this comes from a book I have on japanese travel brochures, where minimalism and simplicity reign. I personally would like even more elegance brought into the layout and reduce the number of elements. Clients are not always great fans of this approach, as it can sometimes look like lazy design.

The piece folds in half, and then in half again on the vertical fold. This and other elements are inserted into a #10 envelope. I do 2 of these a year and I make sure that every one is unique. I submit 3 designs and the client chooses one. It’s part of the Sweepstakes Series.

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This is where I kicked it up a notch. This is a rendered 3D movie, which I edited down and brought in frame by frame. Due to size constraints I had to keep it short. At the time we were going with pink as the online signature color. We connected the banner to directly connect to the archived tune. The client really liked this and had me do another which you can see here.

Hagmann/Landau is/was a small commercial production company. I really liked this client as he let me get on with my job. We first began with some image ads and worked up from there, pretty soon I was recreating the image of the company. The final piece… the logo.

I always examine some sort of typographic interaction when I design logos. Some on a flat plane and some in 3D, when it works it’s amazing, otherwise I just crunch up the paper and move on to the next idea.

A quick website for an entrepreneur who was launching a new product. Pretty much left alone to do what I wanted on this site, with 2 restrictions… time and money. I really like the way orange and grey work together. You can do so many subtle things then you shift the grey hue to warm and cold. Client was super happy, and so he should be. This one came in under $1,000.

The site itself is now defunct but I have the skeletal working still on my site.