I ended up coming up with what you see above and finishing the project by the deadline. Personally I’m really pleased with how it ended up turning out and it may have been even better then what I was initially going to do. I ended up doing some quick painting work over the image given to me and a stock photo of a baby to give them a bit of a unique look and gave them fat white borders to make them look almost like large stickers. I created a textured background to make the solid colored background more interesting. And for the font I used the best font type out there, Helvetica.

Feel free to offer up any critique you may as I love to see what other people think of my work, no matter your knowledge level of design.

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Another month another flier for the Damaged Goods Improv group here in Louisville, KY. This months theme is a quote from Bill Murray during an interview on the Late Show with David Letterman. For the colors and texture of the design I drew inspiration from Bill Murray’s outfit during the interview. Looking at his outfit I thought of colors from nature, rugged/rough textures and even the old school TV.

Speaking of the TV, one of the request I had from the group was to incorporate a screen shot from the interview. I thought for awhile how I was going to do this with out throwing off the overall design. I thought of doing some sort of Illustrator design with Bill Murray or even just embedding the screenshot into the background with some blending. In the end I decided to go with the old school TV. If you look close (hard to do on the above image) you can even see lines like you would see in an old analog TV.

Overall I’m very happy with the design of the flier. Hopefully next month, along with a new flier, I’ll have a new logo for the group to show you as well.

If you are in the Louisville, KY area and would like more information about the show click this link to the event information on Facebook.

Last month I completed and launched a new website for a local dental office, DeVries Family Dentistry. The website, devriesdental.com, is their first real website, they had something through Yellow Pages before. They wanted a place were people could get access to info easily, request an appointment online and even give some feedback.

The design is more on the conservative side, fitting the overall persona of this region. However, that doesn’t mean I didn’t give the website some personality. Dr. DeVries happens to be a legend of sorts for his success as a sports star in the area at the local high school, Meade County High School. The school’s mascot is the Greenwave and their colors are various shades of green. So, I wanted to give a little bit of local touch to the website with the wavy header and in my color choices.

After working on this website I now definitely think that every dentist out there should have one. Not only for people to learn more about the doctor’s practice, but also to allow them to easily do things like request an appointment or learn about a procedure that they are soon going to have performed. That goes for doctors in other medical fields as well.

However after looking at it since it was finished a few days  ago I do wish I had done more to add even more texture to the design. I think I may have gone too light on the texture as you can’t really see it easily.

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P.S. If you are one who is asking, “What the hell is Zuul?!?!” Check here to find out.

Anyways, I wanted to know if I was part of the majority or the minority when it came to my thinking on design software usage. So I decided to ask my fellow designers on Twitter what design software they use. With some help from Sheri Strykowski (writer_sheri), Gerrel Saunders (gaksdesigns) and Dwyndal (Dwyndal) I gathered 79 responses on the matter. Below are the results:

• Adobe CS4: 44
• Adobe CS3: 26
• Adobe CS2: 7
• Other:
  • Adobe CS: 1
  • Corel 14: 1

As you can see Adobe CS4 was by far the most used proving that I am part of the minority and most are willing to pay the the money for the latest (or at least that is what we are going to go with). Personally, like I said earlier, I don’t see anything in CS4 that makes me go, “Wow! I have to update!” That being said, I will be upgrading to CS5 when the time comes, because already you can tell that it will be well worth it. Lets just hope that Adobe realizes that they need to lower the price of their software when CS5 does come out.

But, enough of what I think, below are some thoughts shared by others on Twitter:

Feel free to share your thoughts and what design software you use in the comments section. I look forward to reading them.

This is a logo that I recently created for a local youth soccer team. The soccer team is part of one of those leagues where all the kids just run around around kicking the ball in groups with no goalie and no score kept. The client wanted something cute, and I think I hit what she want, because when she saw it she let out a big, AWWWWWWWW!

While surfing the interwebs today I came across this post on Friendfeed. Its a blog post by PSDTUTS showcasing 48 absolutly amazing photomanipulation pieces of art. You must take some time today and go through and look at every piece, if it doesn’t blow your mind like it did mine, I don’t know what will.

Yet, there are those who didn’t vote, those are the people I don’t want to hear a word out of. Not a single word! I don’t care who you “say” you support, but if things don’t go the way you want over the next four years I don’t want to hear from you. You lose your right to a voice when you don’t exercise your right to vote, its that simple.

Anyways, to go along with this idea I created a poster yesterday. And well, I just wanted to show it off to everyone of the internets. Enjoy and feel free to share your ideas on the poster or the issue at hand.