JAGUAR STEVENS
Logo and promotional material for the band Jaguar Stevens located in Denver, Co
FORCE OF NATURE BREWING
Logo and label design for local craft brewery in Desoto, Ks
ORIGINAL LOGO
BLACK AND WHITE LOGO
PRIDE LOGO
EAGLE PRODUCTS/TSHIRTS.COM
Below are samples of design and illustration work for the whole sale division of Tshirts.com formerly known as Eagle Products, a wholesale t shirt and apparel screen printing facility. I also designed and did layouts for design catalogs, customer art packages, and any promotional material needed for trade shows.
QED SERVICE COMPANY
QED is a coffee equipment repair company that commissioned me to design their logo.
Below are thumbnails and various versions of the QED logo in process of development
MYRNA GAYLE'S BAKERY
I was commissioned to create illustrations for the business card for a startup bakery
These my visual experiments looking for the right kind of grungy style of illustrations the client was looking for
UMKC HOLIDAY PRINT SALE POSTER
These are my initial drafts for the event flyers. The client loved the inclusion of Krampus but ultimately we agreed that the character was too fringe at the time to be incorporated with the other characters.
KANSAS CITY VOICES / WHISPERING PRAIRIE PRESS
Whispering Prairie Press (WPP) is an independent non profit publisher in Kansas City that publishes "Kansas City Voices" (KCV) an annual magazine which features works from artists and writers. The leadership of WPP was in a state of transition and the new president felt KCV needed a facelift. I was brought on to start the overhaul of KCV in the 9th issue with the idea that the 10th issue (coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the magazine) would debut and new logo and a new layout design. The older members of the board wanted the new logo to still be familiar to longtime followers of the publication. The board wanted me to keep aspects of the previous logo (viewable here), yet they were extremely vague in what they were looking for. I decided that I'd use two different type faces like the previous logo but make the new logo a visual block. I then used the motif of the two type faces as titles through out the rest of the magazine.
After the 10th anniversary issue I decided to stay on with WPP. Since the artwork was going to change for each issue cover I decided that it would be fun to tweak the logo in various ways to reflect the artwork around it. My thinking was by altering the logo each year would give every issue that an individualistic feel with out breaking the branding standards established. I took the initiative to do this on my own and when I presented the idea the president of the WPP liked the idea.
After 4 more issues the president of WPP decided to relinquish her position. I decided to use issue 14 as an ode to the work she had done on KCV by imitating the 10th anniversary cover. After the president of WPP left I felt that my time with KCV had come to a close as well and resigned as WPP designer.
While I worked on KCV, I designed a logo for WPP. I had an idea of connecting the profile of an open book to an image of the rolling prairie hills. I inferred the landscape with the simple division of the black as the ground and the white as the sky. The book is hinted with the addition of the extra curved line. Below are variations of the logo and text. The final logo is the bottom right.
RE-PEAT SPORTS
Re-Peat Sports was youth sports training product focused primarily on assisting in proper baseball bat grip. The client wanted a full logo and an simplified icon as well reflecting baseball as the visual theme.
Above are my initial thumbnail sketches and below are color variations of the logo. The client was interested in the colors referencing the Kansas City Royals and University of Oregon.
