Ones & Zeroes - Alternates

Ok, so maybe I went a little overboard on the pirate theme, but these were fun nonetheless. Here are the alternate logos I promised for my friend's band.

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Ones & Zeros

A good friend of mine is the lead singer for a band called Ones and Zeros, and had asked me to do a quick logo for him. This is the winner, modeled with some reference to a pirate flag (the crossed 1's). I will try and also post some of the alternates tomorrow to show (even more pirate-esque).

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Our first huge show...

Hip-hop.com is moving forward, with the live shows coming fast and furious. Our first major show presented by our new label is a hell of a great way to get started imo. Tomorrow (Monday) night at Ruby Skye in downtown San Francisco, Rakim and Mos Def are performing live. Check out the above flyer I put together for all the info.

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Road Dog Tour Visualizer

Testing out our new tour visualizer which will be available to all artists/bands soon. Using our online Road Dog Tour Manager, artists are able to set up their current tours and use this widget to easily market their tours to fans. Lots more coming soon on this one...

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Lipton Sparkling

There's some thing's you work on that you just can't wait to show. While working at my last agency I concepted/designed a site for Lipton Sparkling Green Tea that I am happy to say went live this morning. Above is the original concept I did several months ago, so you can see the evolutions over time. Take a look and find something random today.

http://www.liptonsparkling.com/

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Spread the word - www.hip-hop.com

Life is good. I have now been freelance for almost a month, and work has been steady. I am hoping at some point to keep this thing updated on a more regular basis, however I am still finding that the majority of the work I do can't be released until months after the fact. Fortunately I have been working on something I can share.

I recently did a re-branding for www.hip-hop.com. My love for hip-hop in general has made this a very fun and exciting project to be a part of. Only a holder page for now, but we are working on so much more. Here is the logo I came up with which I hope does a good job of taking the classic hip-hop symbol of the power fist, and modernizes it by showing the fist holding a pair of headphones. It is also meant to symbolize the average hip-hop user and their general mindstate. Catch the vibe.

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Oh the times, they are a changin'

After a lot of work and consideration I have decided to leave my current agency and strike out on my own. I am hoping to start my own agency/design shop/hybrid, and best of all I will be able to finally work from home. My big mac is all set up and ready to go with dual 24" monitors and the comfiest chair I could find. I will supply more and more details as time goes on, but for now, here is another one of my half done sketch pads (black sketch pad - silver paint pen). I really need to start scanning these in instead of using iphone snaps.

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Sketch Pads

I have been keeping my sketch pads for years, and found that I enjoy drawing on them as much as I enjoy drawing in them. Here's an iphone shot of one of them for now, but I'll try and scan the rest in later.

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Pure Awesomeness

I have no idea who did this and where it originated, but my hats off to you, and if you are reading this let me know and I would be happy to give proper credit. I just had to share :)

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The view

I know this is a badly hacked together panorama (I have the high res photos and plan to one day do this right), however I felt it was worth sharing. This was the view from my last agency. I do miss that balcony.

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Another random desktop

Unfortunately I have been finding that the majority of my day to day work can't be posted for months due to NDA's (Non Disclosure Agreements). Instead I am going to make a daily effort to try and take 10-15 minutes to do something random. The following was today's randomness, a break from pitch work.

Nice and Big, it's at 1920 x 1200

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My Beautiful Wife

Yesterday was my one year wedding anniversary, and seeing how it is known as the paper anniversary I figured I would do a drawing of my amazing wife.

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Widgets

Everyone loves widgets, in fact the word seems almost magical in client meetings. Widgets make the world a better place. This is a contribution of mine, to said place. A widget I designed for ABC.

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D is for Dragon

Having a bit more fun with the dragon icon I am creating. Here is a work in Progress...

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Dragon

A little something I have been working on in my spare time. I have always had a love of these mythical creatures and their noble majesty. Hopefully this will be the first tribute of many.

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Random Graffiti

Saw this today on a "hope" exploration near the agency. My hats off to you random tagger BKF.

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USGA

Been awhile since my last post...well I guess if you're interested in following what I have to say then you will get used to it. I enjoy writing (despite my serious grammar issues), but posting on the regular has never been a strength.

Last year I worked on a website for the U.S.G.A. (United States Golf Association) that was all about chronicling the history of golf in the U.S. The U.S.G.A. Museum was a fun site to design due to the high quality of the assets provided. I particularly enjoyed doing the series of murals for the history time line. While they look good on the site, you can't see the murals in their entirety so I thought I would post one here (above pic).

More to come soon...

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