"Of Sentient Virtue"

 Last May you may remember I posted a landscape design with the main theme being a string of Tibetan prayer flags. Here's the link if you need a refresher: http://nolasvoboda-accidentalartist.blogspot.com/2012/05/blessings-of-san-juan.html

This design is special to me because I worked it up after the amazing experience climbing this mountain last September...

Mt. Sneffels 14,150 ft. San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Near the top of this mountain lay a string of these...

And there ya have it, I just had to make a design based on these two elements! In the back of my mind, I knew eventually this design would find a way to being thrown on a ski template in this year's G3 Skigraphiks Contest. So when it came time at the beginning of September, you bet I was mighty excited to enter this design into the contest on G3's brand new District skis and show it off to the world!  I had to tweak it a little here and there to make it fit into a ski template. I had to give it an extra 20 inches of width and orient it to match the direction that G3 seems to want their graphics to lay.

I am very excited about the changes that have come to this year's contest as well. I love that there is only one sponsor this year, which happens to be the super stellar folks at Backcountry Magazine! Though I don't know exactly how it is decided, but I think the idea to have a "People's Choice" winner chosen each month is a neat one. The prize is not a pair of skis, but swag, a 1-year subscription and a pair of skins are still very awesome prizes to win! I think there will be even more of a feeling of accomplishment for the lucky winner who becomes the Overall Winner, as they will be the only one to receive a pair of skis with their design and all the other goodies!

Anyway, back to this design of mine. The thought of there being Tibetan prayer flags on a pair of skis seemed very fitting. In every single ski town and mountain I have ridden, prayer flags display their colors all across the landscape. As someone who commented a great observation on my design said, "What a great choice to use prayer flags-they are a large part of ski culture today!" I believe that is becoming more and more true. I you go on to research the meaning behind the prayer flag, the meaning in the colors, the main picture in the middle of the "wind horse," the meanings of the animals in the four corners, when and for what occasions they are hanged and even why they are supposed to be displayed in the correct sequence of colors, you will no doubt understand why they are becoming such an important theme in any mountain culture today! I wanted the flags to come off the mountain from where they hang to become the forefront of the design, floating across the real and reflected backgrounds becoming the prominent image.

Here is the link to my design for the Skigraphiks contest! Of Sentient Virtue If you like it, feel free to vote, comment and/or share my design! And while you're at it, do the same for all of the other designs that you like too! There are some fantastic designs this year!

"Ride for a Season with The Singletrack Sisters"

The Singletrack and Skinny Tire Sisters of Western Colorado are back for another fantastic season of riding!

Here in the Grand Valley of Grand Junction, Colorado, biking is a huge deal. We are a mecca that folks from across the country...even Canada flock to throughout the year. The Grand Valley offers biking much like Moab, but without the whole tourist hype. Most folks that ride here, really know what they are doing. Here's an article from The Denver Post yesterday that explains our valley a little!

For some reason in the mountain biking industry, women just don't seem to exist on the trails nearly as much as men. Here is a great little article (written by a dude) that explains the phenomenon a bit more...Why No Y? That may be true across the country, but here in the Grand Valley women ride. This brings me back to last week, while sitting in The Hot Tomato after the weekly group ride at the Kokopelli Loops grabbin a slice of Ganny's Pesto pizza and a New Belgium Cocoa Mole brew, a feller sitting next to me from Wisconsin who comes out every year to ride asked, "Are there were many women here who ride?" He seemed to be quite in awe at the number of women in the pizzaria wearing jerseys and spandex. All I could do was look at him with a funny smirk and giggle, "Oh yeah! There are A LOT of ladies who ride!" He went on to explain with exagerated "O's" and "A's" that there are NO women that ride where they're from and how nice it was to see them out.

The women here ride anything and everything, through any weather and any season! I started riding with the group last year because they sounded exactly like the type of people I had been yearning to ride with. Before them, I didn't really know anyone to ride with. I quickly discovered that I could learn a lot from these women and make a bunch of new friends in the process! My friend and coworker Julie came along for her first time on the Weekly Mountain Bike Ride and explained her experience in her blog for Singletracks.com, My First Group Ride With The Singletrack Sisters.

As you may know from my prior posts last year, I have taken it upon myself to design the logo, posters and various other graphic items for this group of women.  Last year they wanted a general poster aimed at informing women of the Grand Valley that this new women's riding group existed. Now the group has grown (based off the members of their Facebook group alone) to over 300 ladies. Judging by that number and knowing that not every woman in the valley who rides is on Facebook, it was time to get a ride calendar out there for all to see when the rides would take place.

If you are ever planning on coming to Grand Junction, Fruita or Palisade to ride, don't be afraid to join in on the group rides! There are also many great discussions, events posted and valuable information that you can find by joining the Singletrack Sisters Facebook Group! If you have any questions about riding with the Singletrack Sisters or riding in the Grand Valley, feel free to visit their website, www.singletracksisters.com!

Here's a little video from the Sister's ride along the Palisade Rim Trail a few weeks ago!

Blessings of San Juan

In hopes of lots and lots of snow for seasons to come. A digital illustration featuring Mt. Sneffels in the San Juan Mountains of Southwest Colorado.

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"Excitement on the Home Front!"

Last night, after three very long months, the UPS guy finally delivered my G3 ZenOxide Skis, featuring my winning G3 Skigraphiks topsheet design!

 

Every so often, he would swing through our little cul-de-sac, stop at this house or that house. I would run to to door with haste and excitement, soon becoming disappointed to discover he wasn't stopping at mine. This process took place nearly every other night (except on weekends), every week of every month for the past three months. I thought, night before last, he was for sure stopping at my house as I heard the rumble of the truck engine and those ever so familiar brakes. But no, he slowed just enough to turn the truck around in a loop and sped off. 

Last night was like Christmas. I was out back working on a little garden prep when I heard it again. The engine rumble, then the familiar UPS truck brakes. I waited, thought "oh please, please be stopping at my place." Then, I heard they ever so wonderful sound of the truck gate open from over the roof of the house and I knew! I knew he was delivering something to my house! I hesitated to jump to the front door though, as I had recently been disappointed by a delivery to our house that I had hoped was, but just happened to not be for me. I stayed out back while I listened to my roommate greet the UPS guy. I heard them exchange words. As he rumbled off, I ran in the house to see what had came with eyes and ears wide open. My roommate didn't come in the house, she went around back to meet me instead. At that moment, I knew! I saw the long skinny box, with G3 packaging tape all around and burst into neighborhood echoing whoops and hollers. I ran and bounced all over the yard with my box, ran inside, sat the box on our pool table, and ran all about the house looking for something to open it with (there just happened to be plenty of tape cutting devises within a few steps) but I was so excited I just couldn't find anything. I calmed a bit and grabbed a steak knife. While talking to my friend Cindy on the phone in what sounded like very loud high pitch foreign language, I was still so excited I couldn't stop and figure out exactly where I should begin to open the box. Calmed myself again...and there they were. More beautiful than I had ever imagined! The fondling went well into the night and they of course came with me to work today!

Don't worry, there will be many more pictures to come!

"Spruce"

Thought I'd share a little sneak peek of another little project I've been working on for a little company out in New Hampshire. Don't worry, there will be more details to come!

(In the mean time, here's a little hint =)...http://www.spruceski.com/)

"Perpetual Recess - Doodles On Chalkboard"

With the new year came the end to the four month long top sheet design contest I had ever so willingly been participating in. At the end of December, G3 wrapped up the contest with Round 4 and their Infidel ski.

G3 describes the Infidel as a freeride ski for everyday fun, nicknamed the "smile factory." Well, obviously the design going on the ski should be one that invokes and emphasizes...fun! I had a plan for this ski through the entire contest, and could barely wait to get to work on it. The idea was simple, and came from a certain (five at the time) now six year old and his random ever changing and evolving drawings.

I've never spent much time around kids. Well, not enough to witness their evolution, how quickly they learn and the changes in the way they think and see the world. A few years ago I met a young feller by the name of Zack. Wild, high spirited, energetic, extremely caring, very athletic, great at sports and loves so ski! I have had the pleasure of living with this particular young man since he was three. I've witnessed his improvement in knowledge of vocabulary, spelling, counting, colors as well as his motor skills in sports. Especially his ability to learn to ski. I've also watched as his doodles went from random heavy strokes of forceful color back and forth to squiggly wiggly lines all over a page to the formation of things he sees in the world. One of the first things he ever popped out onto a page was a wheel, odd looking but definitely a wheel. The wheel then became part of a race car he had seen at the tracks in Vegas. Soon after there was fire and rain, then mountains and trees. Then a whole picture of him fishing with his dad. Every now and then an occasional skier on a mountain. After many hours of watching Matchstick Productions ski flicks with me in the living room, he was drawing and demonstrating avalanches.

As much as I love his doodles, there is a same-ness to all of them. They are very much his style. After chatting about my idea with his mom, we came to the idea that maybe we could get doodles from his entire kindergarten class. They would draw whatever they thought of when they thought of Winter. Every drawing would be individual and unique in its style and composition. In turn the ski would be most unique in its own right, have not one artist, but 26 little ones!

I remember being in school, looking out the window unable to pay attention or focus on my school work as the snow fell outside. Excitement overcame us. All we could think of was the bell of recess or the end of the day ringing, signaling it was time to go outside and play in the snow. Oh the snowmen and the snowball fights and the snow forts, snow tunnels, snow on a slide, a huge pile of snow, catching snowflakes on our tongues...etc. How we couldn't wait to get to the sledding hill. Playing so hard we never noticed as the sun set. So sad we had to go inside and wait till we could get out and play in the snow again. Recess was the best! If only the snow play could never end!

A few days before Christmas break, when little children's minds are filled the most with thoughts of snowmen, snowballs, sledding and anything else they look forward to when it snows at Christmas time, we commissioned the kindergarten class for one drawing each. A massive pile of amazing drawings it was! They were all so different, the skill, the images, the composition. Away I went, scanning and cutting, scanning and cutting until I had a completely random layout of each and every drawing. It was perfect! And to give it a different twist, I reversed the background, making it look as though they drew all of this on a chalkboard with different colors of chalk.

You can view my entry for Round 4 here:
http://www.g3skigraphiks.com/view/entry/perpetual-recess-doodles-chalkboard

The Skigraphiks contest was such a great opportunity to put my skills, the skills I use for my own personal design play, the skills I never get to use as a newspaper advertising designer, to great use! I finally had a chance to take personal stuff I would play around with doing, apply it to a formal design and put it out there for the world to see! It was the most fun I have had with ideas and designing them in a very long time. And to see all of the fantastic designs that came out of this contest, I was blown away! The Skigraphiks contest was such a wonderful opportunity and who knows, maybe this year in 2012, I will throw out more ideas and enter the contest again.

"Compound of Enlightenment"

Time again for another round of Genuine Guide Gear's Skigraphiks contest to wrap up. Round three goes to their backcountry favorite, the ZenOxide. Being the literal thinker I am, I worked to combine my understanding of the definition of the word "Zen" and the word "Oxide." Thus creating an image based off of my personal interpretation of my definition of "ZenOxide."

ZenOxide:

1: A binary compound of Oxygen with Meditation and Intuition, emphasizing experiential Wisdom in the attainment of Enlightenment.

In thinking about this definition, I imagined an environment where I experience the most of my intuition and feel enlightened (possibly due to the lack of oxygen high in the Colorado Rockies!)  I incorporated images of mountains to identify the place and gave them a reflection because I believe that to achieve wisdom, one must first reflect upon the past. When looking out across the vast dynamic mountains, I reflect upon the journey (however short or long in time) that got me to that place. All of my senses powdered my intuition which lead to my decisions along the way. As I am there, I feel an overwhelming sense of peace and excitement. All the things going on in my life quickly fade away and I come to a realization that in that moment, non of it matters. I feel a huge accomplishment as well as a sense that I am very small in comparison to the world around me. I do believe, that in that moment, I achieve an even greater wisdom.

Oxidation is most often seen with metal or wood, and I chose an image of oxidized metal as my background because my favorite mountains are mined for their precious minerals and metals. Everywhere you go, they show signs of the mining and the oxidation that has come over the years. Oxidation is a representation of all of the forces, man-made or provided by nature that age us and wear us down throughout life. Though this process is constantly happening, we achieve various forms of Zen, and we persevere. G3 always portrays the ZenOxide ski with the Japanese symbol that represents "Zen." I thought to incorporate other images of Japanese heritage to the piece to help bring the image as a whole together. Finally I chose to use a stamped metal font for the name of the ski to reinforce the metal background. The Zen circle encompasses the name of both the ski and the Genuine Guide Gear logo as a reminder that anyone can attain a state of ZenOxide.

To vote for my design and check out the many other fantastic designs, click here! G3 Skigraphils - Compound of Enlightenment

"Bernard Of Menthon"

I'm back at it again! Time for round two of Genuine Guide Gear's Skigraphiks Contest. This round goes to Backcountry Magazine Editor's Choice 2012 ski in the "Mountaineering" category, the G3 Saint. Congrats to G3 for winning this fantastic award!

Now I shall tell you a little about how I came about my design! I wanted to stray away from the cliche images associated with the term "Saint," cathederals, statues, Renaissance-esque artwork, etc. As I thought about it, I remembered some images I had seen of "Patron Saints of Graphic Design." I thought, well heck, there must be a Patron Saint of Snow, or Skiing or some Saint along those lines. Low and behold I found him! His name was Bernard of Menthon. And through my research about him, turns out he was a pretty awesome feller and most of us don't actually know who he is, but we do  know of him! He will forever be commemorated in the form of a massive, docile, gentle beast of a pup known as the St. Bernard! And thus the idea of my design was simple, straight to the point and off I went! To vote for my design and check out the many other fantastic designs, click here! G3 Skigraphiks Saint

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A summed up version of Saint Bernard, the Patron Saint of Skiers and Alpinists goes a little something like this:

There is a path across the Pennine Alps leading from the valley of Aosta to the Swiss canton of Valais. This pass is constantly covered with snow seven to eight feet deep, and drifts sometimes accumulate to the height of forty feet. Although the pass was extremely dangerous, especially in the springtime on account of avalanches, it was often used by French and German pilgrims on their way to Rome. Bernard of Menthon (Bernard of Montjoux 923-1008) founded a monastery and hospice at the highest point of the pass in the year 962, and the pass came to bear his name. A few years later he established another hospice on the Little St. Bernard Pass, a mountain saddle in the Graian Alps. These hospices were renowned for the generous hospitality extended to all travelers over the Great and Little St. Bernard. Heroic monks accompanied by their well-trained dogs went out in search of victims who might have succumbed to the severity of the weather. They offered food, clothing, and shelter to the unfortunate travelers and took care of the dead.

History shows how Bernard saved the lives of scores of travelers who had fallen victim of avalanche, exposure and other mountain hazards. Bernard was canonized and further honored in the late 1800's when European dog owners renamed the Alpine Mastiff, known for it's endurance and capabilities in high altitude rescue, the Saint Bernard. Today Saint Bernard is known as "The Patron Saint of Skiers and Alpinists."

"HEADLINES"

Discovered another chance to win something fun! Genuine Guide Gear's Skigraphiks contest is back for another season. The first ski on the list is the new freestyle ski, the Highball. Thought I'd take another chance win a pair of skis and throw out a design idea I have been playing around with for a long long time! What a great opportunity for designers to get their design onto the top sheet of a ski!

You can check out and vote for my design as well as the many other fantastic designs here: http://www.g3skigraphiks.com/view/entry/headlines

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"Is It Winter Yet?®"

A little over a month ago, Liberty Skis out of Avon, CO announced their "Is It Winter Yet?® T-Shirt Contest.

The rules were simple:
Each entrant may submit up to two T-shirt designs.
Each design must feature the words “Liberty Skis” and “Is It Winter Yet?®”.
T-Shirt designs can feature a front and a back.
And the deadline for entering was July 24, 2011.
Public voting will be from July 24, 2011 through August 8, 2011
Judging will be from August 8, 2011 through August 11, 2011
Judges will announce the winners on August 15, 2011

Now I will admit, when it comes to having a chance to win something, I enter just about EVERY drawing/contest I see float past me. I wasn't too inclined at first to enter this particular contest, mostly because I didn't think I was going to have time to come up with a design. But the thought of possibly winning the prizes made it so that I just couldn't pass up the opportunity.

The prizes...follow with a gasp/grin:
The Grand Prize, winner will receive one pair of new Liberty Skis, plus 6 T-shirts with your winning design entry. (Enter gasp!)
2nd Prize, second place will receive one pair of Liberty poles, plus 6 T-shirts with your design. (Enter grin!)

Okay okay, let me think about it for a bit...

So, I thought about it. And I thought, oh man is Liberty asking the right question for me or what?!
When I thought about the question, "Is It Winter Yet?" I knew instantly what my design should be. It should be the one place I find myself ALL Summer and Fall long, just waiting for Winter to come...lounging around in my ski gear, looking off at the not so distant mountain, waiting not so patiently for there to be snow on it once again. Bingo!

To give an example, here was myself a few weeks ago. At the beginning of July, out on the front porch, sitting in my Adirondack chair, sipping coffee, all dressed up in ski gear...

So you have the basic concept for my design, let me tell ya a little more about the graphics in it. Obviously the skier chillin in the chair facing the mountain. I chose to make the chair and Adirondack chair because of my own chair, and because many times I have sat in one of these chairs at a ski resort, nibbling on a burger and sipping a tasty beverage. These chairs flood the snowy "patios" in front of the mid mountain restaurants.

The skier I wanted to be an anonymous silhouette, an image to represent anyone and everyone. Doesn't matter who, this skier could be you!

The skis on the skier, I went to great lengths to create. They are Liberty's own Double Helix skis. I wanted to keep them as simple as possible while still making them recognizable as the Double Helix. The Double Helix is also the ski, out of all the skis out there, that I have chosen to be my next ski.

On to the mountains. If you have read my posts in the past, you would know that I like to make ball point pen doodles of pictures I have taken. These mountains are a ball point pen doodle I sketched of the mountains seen looking South from the top of Breckenridge Resort in CO (here is the post from last September...http://nolasvoboda-accidentalartist.blogspot.com/2010/09/doodling-with-ball-point-pen.html). I felt that adding some very much Colorado-esk mountains was very important, being that Liberty is a Colorado based company.

The rays of sun rising over the mountains. I live on the western slope of Colorado, so for me, the sun always rises over the mountains that I love. My day starts with looking East towards the mountians while the sun rises over them, wishing for Winter to come. And on a very special morning, the sun rises and there it is, Winter has come to the mountains once again. So the rising of the sun represents the rise of another Winter. The rays are representative to those on the East slopes of Colorado as well. For those folks chase the sun up into the mountians when winter comes. And their day ends with the setting of the sun over the mountains they love. And on that one very sad afternoon, the sun will set on that season and the long wait for Winter to come commences once again.

Bamboo, quite possibly the most important supporting graphic. Liberty makes high performance skis rooted in functional innovation and respect for the environment. Liberty prides themselves on being the first and remains the ONLY ski company to use bamboo in all their skis. Bamboo is strong, light, eco friendly. On top of the renewable amazingness of bamboo, Liberty also operates on 100% wind power. Adding the bamboo was a very important aspect for me as I am constantly in an attempt to be as green as I can. I also chose to make the bamboo green to give the design a summer feel. Almost like the skier is sitting on a bamboo jungle like beach.

Well now that I have told you all about it, here is my design! If you like it and you are a Facebook user, please go vote for my t-shirt! As great as winning a pair of skis or poles would be, I would love more than anything to have a t-shirt with this design on it! It would be my most favorite shirt that I would never stop wearing! And you too could purchase this shirt for yourself! Public voting will be going on through August 8, 2011. https://apps.facebook.com/contestshq/contests/130235/voteable_entries/25855290

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"Noise Makers For Your Spokes!"

Business cards for the Singletrack and Skinny Tire Sisters of Western, Colorado.

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"Sisters and a Slice!"

Here's how the story goes:

The Singletrack Sisters decided to throw a benefit. 

They needed a poster. 

I was happy to enlist my services. 

The Hot Tomato in Fruita, CO was happy to host.

I began to "blueoodle" (blue ball point pen doodle)! I blueoodled a pizza!

 

I scanned in the pizza, cleaned it up a smidge...

Then I took the blueoodle into Illustrator!

 

Seeing as there was a cruiser giveway, I thought it would be good to throw a cruiser in!

 

Went straight to turning the cruiser into a vector.

 

After I got those two graphics made, I thought pizza wheels would be fun!

 And thus became, the poster for the Singletrack Sisters' Hot Tomato Benefit.

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"Ride Like a Girl!"

Just finished up a recruitment poster for the Singletrack and Skinny Tire Sisters of Western Colorado.

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"Singletrack Sisters"

A friend of mine recently called me up to inform me about a new group of women only riders in the Grand Valley. I had heard about them before in the Daily Sentinel's Biking Guide special section (http://www.gjsentinel.com/special_sections/articles/all_that_glitters_is_gold). My friend (a Bike Shop mechanic), is very into the biking community mentioned that this group of ladies, the Singletrack and Skinny Tire Sisters of Western Colorado (check out the group's Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=338465622420&ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=338465622420&v=wall), were looking to move from just a Facebook group to become more of an actual group in the community. They want to get an identity, make brochures to leave in the local bike shops, hold clinics and do so much more. He gave the leader of the group my information and away we went!

Before they decided to have me do their logo, I was inspired by just the idea. I had a sudden urge to sketch up a mountain biker chick pulling a wheelie and fooled around with ways to abbreviate the name of the group. Ended up scrapping the abbreviation idea, but loved the chick!

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Still, without officially deciding to have me do their logo, I continued on. I cleaned up my sketch a bit in Photoshop and threw it into Illustrator where I turned it into a vector image. ©nolasvoboda•accidentalartist

 I kept going. I played with the thought of adding a bike track element. ©nolasvoboda•accidentalartist

And played around with various fonts to create additional logo type and maneuvered the letters around for fun and added a girlie hibiscus element. ©nolasvoboda•accidentalartist

I had a thought to throw all of these elements into a shape that would bring them together. I ended up choosing an oval. ©nolasvoboda•accidentalartist

I found another font I really liked and used it for the rest of the name. I chose to exclude "Skinny Tire" for the time being because I wasn't sure they would want it anyway. ©nolasvoboda•accidentalartist

After this point, I decided to stop because I created an image I really liked. I sent it to the head of the group just to see what she thought. She loved it and decided at that point to have me move ahead with designing their logo! Through various changes and rounds of proofs, we eventually came up with an image that we both liked and thought would be a good representation of their group! She chose the colors of red and blue to be added to the logo. I had a thought while dreaming about it one night that if there is going to be red and blue, I should use yellow and make it representative of the Colorado flag. I chose an iron red for the rocks, a bright cyan for the sky and a golden yellow for the circle. I didn't want the logo to be exactly Colorado's colors, but more representative of the colors seen in Colorado's scenery. I also worked up a black and white logo for any of their black and white printing needs and a rectangle shaped logo for stickers or anything that would need to be cut to shape.

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"Venture People, Venture!"

I recently started up a new Facebook page for people who like to do stuff outside and like to find others to do stuff with. It is a place where people can connect by creating adventures and get in on others adventures! This isn't going to be one of those groups that is left up to the "Admins" to figure out what to do. It's up to anybody and everybody to get out!

I also created an event within the group where every week I will post known activities for the upcoming weekend, and anybody can write any events they know about that will be happening. These events will be constantly updated every week and when events have past, they will be deleted.

And...well, its always better to include an image for the profile and the event. I decided to create logos for them!

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Visit the page here: Venture Out Western Colorado

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Visit the events for the weekend here: Weekend Shenanigans

"A Batch Of Logos"

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Identity "Revamp-vamp-vamp"

With the new logo finally complete, it was time to officially update and revamp the business card! I decided initially that I wanted them to get them printed my MOO.com this time rather than overnightprints.com. I love the feel of their card stock and at MOO you can upload up to 50 images to be printed on the front side. With that in mind I thought it would be fun to create four entirely different cards. Individually they look like super cropped bits of my logo...together they form the whole image! Collect all four!
Uploaded and ready to be sent off to MOO!

"A New Brew" Update

The labels for Monument Brewing's brews, on their bottles! And I must say...I do love flavor of Wedding Bell Wheat, very yummy!

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Identity "Revamp-vamp"

Went through and did a little more revamping of my logo. Decided to change up the typeface all together! Then did a little updating and simplifying of my resume.

"A New Brew"

A friend of mine who I will refer to as Mr. Bonnell, inquired upon me one day for my design skills. He has started up with a partner, a macro brewery which they are calling Monument Brewing. Mr. Bonnell asked if I could help him in coming up with two labels for two of his brews that he wanted to unveil at a friends wedding on the 14th of August. One they decided to call Wedding Bell Wheat, given it's distinct flavor by brewing with lemon and lime. And the other they went with the name Brook Trout Brown Ale. Once Mr. Bonnell and his partner worked out some details, he gave me a better idea of what he wanted incorporated in his labels. And to work I went!

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