Online Portfolio of Garth Wilson

Male Female Icon Set

A collection of icons which I create in Cinema 4D and then bring into Illustrator CS4, where I turn the entire scene into vectors. Time consuming... yes, but it reduces the file and makes it customizable for use. I submit these to iStock where I get a portion of the ...

Latin Alternative Music Conference

The client wanted an edgy ad that didn't conjure up latin stereotypes, yet finding something cool and different about the culture. I think some the imagery for the 'lucha libre' is really bizarre and interesting. I did a set of 4 comps, copying the style of small town posters. I found ...

La Palma Website

A full page flash design for a vacation rental in Palm Springs, California. Everything involved in the production of this site, including half the photography, all the copywriting and research, logo design and even the name of the house I had to do myself. The owners were hands-off which allowed ...

Raw Material Design Logo

A design I did for a small design company, very similar to mine. It's an older design so it has some of the trappings of the early 1990's when a lot of industrial and war propaganda imagery was very popular. I embraced the 'look' of the time, while trying to ...

KCRW iPod Flash Banner

The original design of this banner had no Flash, it was just a jpeg. When Apple released the new iPod, the client wanted a revamp I suggested adding some Flash. In the working example, each show had a unique click through. It took a while to ...

2008 Summer Sweepstakes

With this piece I decided to create in interesting background that, through contrast, I could manipulate the layout. I played with 5 backgrounds before choosing the one above. At this point in the campaign, KCRW's online support drive was robust and I had to consider how to extend the print ...

KCRW Program Host Ad

This probablly doesn't represent great design. I think the final piece ended up looking better that I thought. Initially it was just going to be yummy black and white, with black squares holding the copy. Later, color pictures were added and I had to try balance the piece as ...

2008 Election Ad

Sometimes it's hard to go back to one color when you design. I find the simplest of shapes always works best, when working with limited colors. You can't just convert a color ad to a black and white ad. This was designed to be B/W from the start, with careful ...

Italian Trade Commission Newsletter

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 ...

Summer Sweepstakes Brochure

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 ...