The Wordpile

 
My writing is self taught, and presently little more than a glorified, hopeful hobby. My Graphic Design skills, however, are earned: I carry an Associates Degree in Graphic Design out of Cuyahoga Community College. I’m best in Photoshop and Indesign: I’m a natural compositer and make very good use of space, both aesthetic, practical, and unusual, as the alphabet people will show (see below). I’m unemployed for now, and my contact info is the next page over, so if any of this makes you think you’ve got a job I should handle, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. I’m open to short or long term contracts, and am especially interested in any long term, bread winning propositions that will allow me to work out of Baltimore.

 

Brochure for Fantasy Image Company

Two sides of the Alphabet World

Each ‘character’ is made from one letter of the alphabet, one font, upper and/or lower case, any size. Draw a line down the middle, and you should see a pattern emerge: oddballs on one side, upper class on the other (aside from J the Jester, who technically belongs on the oddball side, but is with the nobles because they find him amusing)

 

Magazine ad for Fantasy Image Company

Like any good non-profit organization, Tri-C likes its freebies. Nearly all its mailing material was designed by us Graphic Design students as projects. This one was to encourage people to take summer courses. I assembled these comic people out of parts of the logo, and created a little set of scenes in which one character wakes up the other two and makes them come to class. One pays attention, but the other doesn’t and is smitten by a giant Tri-c logo representing the new semester workload. It was fun to make.

Pole Banner Ad for Fantasy Image Company

Unconventional Ad for Fantasy Illustration Company

In case you can’t read it, the line of text says ‘www.whydidthelioncrosstheroad.com’. In an applied campaign this would re-direct to the company home site.

 

Poster for Tisha B'av Local Event

Tisha B’av is a mourning day on the Jewish calendar, a date that represents a staggering amount of our religion’s most devastating moments in history, including the destruction of both temples and the Spanish Inquisition (the day it went into effect and the boats of Jews left Spain). As such, every other poster I’ve ever seen for a Tisha B’av themed talk or event or whichever features the western wall in its graphics somehow. Therefore, I resolved to never use it. The garment in the sand is a pair of Tzitzis, worn by all Jewish males, and the pages are from a traditional hebrew prayerbook (I had one with several loose; I just photographed them and put them back).

Mock Newspaper Page

Redesign of Barilla Spaghetti Box

I will try to acquire a new scan of the original design, but for now, suffice to say it was unanimously voted as an improvement.

Wolf Ceremony

At the end of the day, this is my favorite thing to do in graphics. Elaborate, scene-type composites. I am available to make things like this to order, most likely on an hourly wage rate. Customers will be given a ‘detail range’ to select. Want a wild, unusual, or impossible family portrait? How about some custom scene of your daughter for her birthday? It’s Photoshop – the sky is the limit, just like my imagination.

My Business Logo

If you’ve got a vision, I’ll make it real.