T-Shirt Design :: Fly Singlespeed 2008

A humble tribute to singlespeeding:

This design is avaiable in dark color shirts only. Click here to go to my online store.

T-Shirt Design :: The iHuck Collection

Ok, "Collection" is probably a little pretentious, but here it goes:

Each one of these designs is avaiable in any of the four colors, in many styles. Clicking here will take you to my online store.

Monument Sign :: Wyoming Springs

Not having a lot of design criteria to go by, I decided to satisfy my of cravings for a copper-finished sign face on a stucco white wall with faux steel exoskeleton. Really just a fancy way of saying I wanted to try this in SketchUp:


A job in progress, we'll see what sort of impression it makes with the client.

Please click on any image for a larger, more detailed view.

Mountainbiking and a Texan = Harcore Fan :: Tattoo Design

A good friend of mine shared his wish to have his arm emblazoned with a tattoo that shows his pride for his native Texas and his love of mountainbiking. Call me a designer-enabler if you will, he was pretty please with this design:



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Sign Program :: The Offices at Hill Country Galleria

I've recently had the opportunity to work alongside some very distinguished environmental design studios in what is currently known as mixed-use developments. The recently opened Hill Country Galleria is one such project. It consists of an extensive open shopping area, condominiums, and office buildings. For these office buildings, I had the privilege of designing the interior signage.

I did not want to copy the color scheme of the exterior signage (a bold burnt orange and other earth tones), and wanted the design to convey the casual "Hill-Country" elegance of the region. A touch of a natural (or natural-looking) element in the wood veneer is complemented with the suggestion of a more utilitarian material in the metal-finished parts:


The staggered border resembles a structural element in the exterior wayfinding package:


The directional blade sign utilizes the staggered border as a structural element:


The client insisted we use the entire "The Offices at Hill Country Galleria" in this directory. I'm not too crazy about it, but I'm satisfied with my visual solution to that design problem.


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Pylon Sign Spectacular :: Blazer Tag

Blazer Tag is a fun place with a lot going for it, except their signage. It looks old and worn out, and doesn't capitalize on the major traffic of the neighboring highway. The client is aware, and requested a sign design that would incorporate a new full-color LED message center, their name, all of it nicely wrapped up in a UFO theme.

Mr. Blazer Tag was pretty impressed with my Jetsons-meet-Futurama Populuxe creation:




(Please click on thumbnails for a more detailed drawing.)

3D SketchUp And Graphic Design Casserole :: Longhorn Bicycle

I continue exploring the many uses of 3D graphics from SketchUp. When the local bicycle club approached me for a t-shirt/poster design for an upcoming event called Singletrack Stampede, I immediately thought about using this concept I had already been considering. You see, Longhorn cattle is very popular here in Texas. So much so, there have been more than one individual that has built a longhorn bike. I have actually ridden one, but I am yet to see a Longhorn mountainbike.
Anyways, I digress, the the point is I created this longhorn mountainbike in SketchUp:



...that I Warholized:


(Please click on the thumbnail for a more detailed drawing.)

...and though about the challenge of creating a longhorn mountainbike stampede, dust-cloud and all, in SketchUp. Without any fancy rendering tools at my disposal, I quickly realized I would need some serious Photoshopping in layers and transparencies to pull this off. I would end up putting it all together in Illustrator:


(Please click on the thumbnail for a more detailed drawing.)
I think you can't beat the dramatic perpectives that can be easily achieved with 3D, but I didn't want it to look sooo 21st-century-3D-thingamajig, so I designed the piece to look like a circa 1970 repro.

Industrial Design :: Countertop Display

I've been experimenting with SketchUp as a presentation tool. Originally meant as an architectural CAD tool, I'm finding SketchUp really lends itself for the communication of other design projects, such as this display.

Click on the image for an animated GIF (Large: 437 KB):



A friend at a countertop company recently requested help with a challenge. Their beautiful showroom needs a way to showcase twelve to fifteen sample "tiles" about 4" x 6", with minimal impact on the existing setup. We opted to use their own plentiful raw materials, which will also help the finished display blend in its surrounding.

Here's the proposal (click for a larger image):



This modular design allows the presentation of samples in increments of five, this makes possible for the client to add or remove modules as needed, adjusting to changes in product offerings. Because the design conceals the notches in the back, each individual module can also be used to display only four tiles without the appearance of something being missing.

Here's what the first prototype looks like (click for a larger image):

T-Shirts

I dont think I promote these enough. Well I need money, and I also just re-did most of the old designs to work on dark apparel. Wow what a selection! Check them out:

3D Modeling in SketchUp :: Roadkill Pedicab

I've been busy with SketchUp, creating complex, curved surfaces for three-dimensional carving. It started with my friend John's logo:


Which I vectorized and then transformed into a three dimensional model in SketchUp:


From that I carved this 15" x 15" x 2" deep logo (click for a larger image:


The flat spot is the result of leaving a very thin layer of extra material on the model, to compensate for the sanding during the finishing process. Next, some hand-finishing, priming, painting and vinyl graphics (click for a larger image):

Cycling Jersey Design :: Teco Westinghouse

Friends riding the MS150 requested a design for their custom jerseys. It started with this sketch:



From that, I produced this:



Which resulted in this:





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More SketchUp Yay! :: 3D Retro Robot Toy

Long overdue, here's 3D Robotica's mascot. I affectionately call it "Model 1"



Click on the image for a small animation.

Monument Sign :: The Shops at Kitty Hawk

Proposal for a small shopping center. Inspired by the name, the colors, shapes and materials are meant to evoke the first successful airplane.

Logo Design :: Soap Box

Logo for a local laundromat chain.

Tattoo / T-shirt Design :: Granny Gives You Wings

You will probably notice a theme in many of my designs: bikes. As in cycling. "Granny" is a reference to the easier-to-pedal "granny gear".

Window Graphics :: Illusion Studio

Notice the organic "watermark" and the illusion of dimensional graphics in the main copy.

Pylon Sign :: Hudson Bend

This sign tries to consolidate the use of modern technology with a craft style. The color palette is meant to blend with the region's sensibilities.

Marketing Materials :: Channel Letters

One of the projects I took upon myself in one of my previous jobs was re-designing their marketing materials. Shown is a sales sheet for channel letter signs.

Oldies But Goodies :: Monument Sign :: Cool Liquors

An experiment in retro-look sign design. Per local code, this sign was designed so that only the letters would illuminate.


Here's the finished sign:

Logo Design :: Solarena

Logo for a clothing brand.