EYES WIDE AWAKE

I just finished creating this logo for Grilled Cheese Bandits, a gourmet grilled cheese food truck out in San Francisco. This was a really fun logo to work on and the owners of the company are two awesome guys, one is an old school punk rocker and the other is a metal head (my kind of people). They wanted their logo to have a western bandit/outlaw look and feel without being too cheesy… sorry I had to go there. This logo is also for a food truck so I wanted it to be simple and bold so it would be easy to read and recognizable from  a distance. I also went with a bright color scheme to make this logo really pop. In all this was one of those great logo projects that are a blast to work on, and if you find yourself in SF, get a grilled cheese sandwich from these guys.

I’m always super excited about working with Red Bull because they put on some really awesome events and the Red Bull King of the Campus was no exception. I had the opportunity to create the first place trophy which can be seen in the video. Enjoy.

My buddy Colin Adkins needed a flyer designed for his upcoming acoustic set and I thought it would be a great chance to do a little design experimenting. The show is Tuesday, March 6th at Dos Gatos for those of you in the Jacksonville area. He will be playing with Drew Bond of Opiate Eyes and this should be a good little show.

For the design I wanted to something a bit weird and have a somewhat native american/neo spirit animal look to it, if that makes any sense. Anyways, it was a fun little project to work on and giving myself a quick turn around (1 day) can really get the creative juices flowing.

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I recently had the opportunity to work with an old art director of mine, Andre Macris. He asked for some help on a project in his historic neighborhood of Springfield. It turns out a disc golf course was being built at Klutho Park and they needed a logo. Klutho Park which was created between 1899 and 1901 is a really cool historic park in Jacksonville and I always like to work on projects in the local community so I jumped on board. What I originally thought would be a logo project turned into an overall branding campaing for the Springfield Disc Golf Course which included a logo, welcome sign, score cards and tee signs.

Beginning with the logo, I knew that the park is historic and very iconic to a lot of locals so I made sure to pay repect to the classic stylings and designs that still remain, especially the balustrades which are incorporated into the bottom portion of the logo. The type I used for “Springfield” mimicked some old carved signage above many of the bridges crossing Hogans Creek which runs along the park. I also included a disc golf basket with the number 18 to let people know that it was an 18 hole course. I also wanted to keep the logo circular so it could easily be printed onto discs.

Once that was wrapped up I moved onto creating a welcome sign which included a map, rules, hole info and a few other bit of info for players. In addition, I created a score card so players can keep track of their scores. In all this turned out to be a large project with large and small elements designed to pay respect to the historic park but be fresh enough to grab peoples attention and inform them on the game of disc golf.

I’ve called Florida my home for 13 years of my life and have lived in various places in between, primarily out West. I’m a firm believer in love where you live, if not move, it’s as simple as that. With that said I love Florida, yeah it has it’s pros and cons but it’s treated me pretty well over the years, especially Riverside in Jacksonville. I also love California, I have various friends who live out there and I try to take a trip at least once a year to visit. I wanted to pay homage to these places and I came up with these state love icons. Keeping the idea simple and honest without being too cheesy was the main goal so I went with a simplistic outlines that uses the shape of each state to incorporate a heart. I hope you enjoy.

The AIGA Jacksonville’s Always Summer Poster Show this past weekend was amazing to say the least. There were some seriously great posters hanging on the walls of the Thief in the Knight building. Here is my poster I created for my favorite song this summer, Best Coast’s “When I’m With You.” Since Best Coast is a low fi, surf rock band from California and I wanted to pay homage to that. I started off sketching some retro looking kids smiling/singing and thought the speech bubbles would make a nice symmetrical design. After all that I went in and created a half tone pattern to make it look like it was silk screened and repeated some of the elements in the background to give it some texture. I really like how it turned out and I hope Best Coast would like what I created.

Burro Bags just dropped their Fall 2011 2012 Look Book. If you need a backpack, messenger bag, hip bag, pedal straps, wallet or just some fresh T-Shirts, Burro has you covered. Check it out here.

Here are some videos that I’ve been enjoying lately. Some are older and some are newer but all are pretty amazing.