Jerry Lee Lewis - The Extreme Sun and Early Years - 16 Disc Set Album Art

This is the most comprehensive Sun Years collection known... It was compiled by music collector JBored76.

I used all images from the web.
CS3 Photoshop

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Images from the web. The Hotrod in the desert pic is by David Perry.

CS3 Photoshop

White Stripes Bootleg Album Art

I love the White Stripes, so I decided to create my own compilation of various live performances and a few rare tracks. This was fun to do...

CS3 Photoshop - all images from the web.

The Darkness Radio Sessions - Album Art

The Darkness Radio Sessions - is a bootleg I that I designed some cover art for. It was fun, plus I really dig The Darkness.

CS3 Photoshop - All images from the web

Embassy Suites: The Big Game Ad

I did this for Embassy Suites'. It was their "Big Game" ad (Note: Super Bowl is trademarked - so you cannot put that in any advertising).

Anyways, the client really liked it and I was pleased with how it turned out. Its always tricky to accommodate what a client wants in their ad, without making the ad too busy.

CS3 Photoshop & InDesign

Album Art

This was for a friends Pat Boone compilation album...

CS3 Photoshop, images from the web.

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Images found on the web, CS3 Photoshop & InDesign

Shea Homes - Advertising Campaign

Basically my employer asked all of the artists to design an ad campaign. The campaign would consist of two double trucks (that means two full page ads that are next to each other - like a centerfold), 1 double truck to be a branding/image ad, the other double truck the sales ad, an insert which is a front and back 10" x 10" piece and two online ads - banner and a tower web ads. We all had access to the Shea Homes advertising art - logos, photos, etc... We had to come up with everything. I mean everything, the copy, the offers, the pics, layout, EVERYTHING!!! All 24 artists did this project. Each piece had to be mounted and then presented to to a panel that would narrow the 24 entries down to a smaller number then those would be presented to the VP's at Shea Homes.

In terms of dollars, this is without a doubt the biggest contract that I've worked on - $600,000 +.

So out of the 24, mine was selected to a smaller group that was presented to the big wigs at Shea Homes. Then from there mine was selected in the top 4 that got Shea Homes to not only sign the contract, but the contract was for more than what was first settled on. So I was given a bonus... We'll see what happens next.


Branding/Image Doubletruck


Sales ad Doubletruck


Front of the 10"x10" insert


Back of the 10"x10" insert


Banner web ad








































Tower online ad

All was original concept.

CS3 Indesign & Photoshop

NES West - Help Wanted Flier Designs

NES West provides concert staff to big events. One of my buddies works for them handling the employment. So he asked me to do some help wanted fliers to be distributed on college campuses.

Here they are - all images are from the web. 8 designs in total on 8.5x11 paper prepared to be printed out and cut in fours with guerilla/grass-roots marketing tactics in mind.

CS3 Photoshop

Spec work/ Mock-Up

What ever you want to call it... Both of these were total concept designs. The Dig This page was for a new publication, its a page mock-up. The publication never saw the light of day.

The other was a spec ad for that publication that never happened - Pep Boys. Again, this was all concept stuff that I came up with. All the copy, images, etc...

Photoshop & Quark

Advertising Design

I did this one a while back. It was for a salon. They supplied the logo and the photo of the girl. Thats it. I did the rest. I thought it turned out pretty cool. What do you think?

Photoshop & Quark

Carnitas Auténticas de "OB" - Business card design

I did this for my brother-in-law. He makes the BEST carnitas. PERIOD.

I dig the little pig's attitude - I thought it was kinda funny.

Photoshop & Freehand

The Thrift Store - Advertising Design

I did these a little ways back.... I dig these cause they have a subtle, retro kinda feel to them. Simple & clean.

Photoshop & Quark

Sac Homes Cover - "Special Edition" Stylemakers of the Year

I was asked to design the cover of a "Special Edition" of Sac Homes. Its called Stylemakers of the Year. So I sat with the editors, writers and brainstormed ideas. This was all my concept. I thought of award shows, plus the colors fell into the holidays...

CS3 Photoshop & InDesign

Advertising Promo Piece

This was just an Advertising Team Poster Design that was done for fun. I really dig Rock'N'Roll poster & album cover design.

The boxer was a piece of low res clip art from the web. I took that threw it on a background layer in FreehandMX. Then took the pen tool and traced it, creating clean vector art. Once that was done the rest was easy... This is all concept stuff.

FreehandMX

Special Event Cover Spec

I did this as a front cover for a special section of a newspaper. Its for the Annual Strawberry Festival. It didn't make the cut. I was told it wasn't "hokey" enough. First of all... I'm a west coast kid - what the hell is "hokey"? They also said it was too hip and contemporary. Maybe it was a good thing it didn't get chosen. Anyway...

I used a photo supplied by a local photographer. Ran a couple of filters in Photoshop to get a little bit of a worn look to the pic.

Photoshop

Whiskey Wild - Bar & Grill

I went to this place and its pretty nice. I ordered chicken tacos, but was mistakenly given fish tacos instead. But it was a great mistake cause those fish tacos were excellent. I also sampled a really nice whiskey. It had a smooth, almost vanilla flavor to it. Its $80 a bottle. Being a whiskey bar they specialize in... whiskey.

Anyway, after visiting these were the two designs I came up with... I woulda liked some interior pics of the place, but didn't have any. I used images from the web and the bar's logo.

CS3 Photoshop & InDesign