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 proceeds. The images are a little dry and sterile, but the process is cathartic. Click the page icons to see others in the same collection.

Other male+female icons:

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.

Designed to brand a campaign where contributors are able to choose products in lieu of support. The brief was to use a Japanese influence and re-create the stations’ logo. Initially offered to a calligrapher, I did a letter on spec and was awarded the project. This type of logo is very tricky, it takes a long time to get it just right, with pages and pages of practice letters. All the while trying to achieve the effect of an artist quickly doing it on a napkin.

This was my old company. I really liked this logo. It came about from an impromptu brain storm between myself and a great copywriter friend, Ken Segal. The name of the company I had already decided on as I felt it described my greatest virtue. From then on it was just a matter of finding the right source photo and converting it to vectors. The logo evolved a bit over the years, but this was my favorite version. To find out why I dropped this as a company name, email me.

This start-up company, a developer of sports accessories, with big ideas and a tiny budget was an interesting challenge.

The brief consisted of discussing the Nike™ logo, and trying to achieve the same active, energetic and dynamic. Part of my contribution was to guide the ceo through his many ideas down to the final, chosen above.

This is one of many logos I created for a really good South African friend of mine, Neel Muller. For a while there we were going to rule the design/advertising world. Oh well.

The brief was to create an alluring/edgy design, using a stylized version of the furry mammals that call a hole in the african soil their home. I used the theme of the hole to dominate. For the creature I used a lot looser interpretation. Here is what they really look like!