I created this cartoon aviator bird mascot character and the website banner seen above for a recent client. The name of the company & website was “Daily Flock” so we knew the mascot was going to be bird-related. The website offers local New York City bargains, so the idea was that the website scoured the city for shopping deals for you. I suggested an aviator bird, and the client loved the idea.
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I recently created this cartoon character mascot for a client who is a roofer. He was looking for a fun logo for his roofing business, and I assume he’s also a dog lover as he asked for the character to be a dog carpenter.
Below is the final full logo I created:
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Published on
August 19, 2009 in
design.
Tags: Adobe Illustrator, design, disc golf, disc sport, dog disc, flying disc, freestyle, frisbee, graphic design, guts, icon, sketch, sports, ultimate, vector art.
A set of flying disc sport icons I created for Flying Disc Magazine. These icons were created as part of the redesign of Flying Disc Magazine (of which I was also the designer). The client wanted to expand the magazine further out from the original focus on disc golf to include additional flying disc sports. We needed to figure out a way to indicate that different magazine articles and columns were associated with the different sports.
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Published on
July 22, 2009 in
cartooning and design.
Tags: art, branding, cartoon, cartooning, character, design, drawing, identity, Illustration, illustrator, logo, mascot, packaging, sketch.
This was an interesting project. I was contracted to created a cartoon fish mascot character for a niche fishing tool—basically it’s an air bladder deflate gizmo for fishermen so they can sport fish deeper-sea fish and release the expanded air in the fish’s buoyancy air bladder when they arrive at the surface. this allows the fishermen to release the fish back into the water without permanently harming them.
After an initial phone discussion with the client, I was mailed the existing packaging (as I was to also re-design the packaging) as well as some rough sketches drawn by the client to give me an idea of the fish they wanted to see. Typically when clients do send rough drawings, it’s with the “it’s not the greatest” disclaimer, but I actually encourage clients to suck up the ego and send these over. The more information I have from a client about what they have envisioned for the project, the better.
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A handy, exhaustive resource on Greek key border patterns, including a handy online Greek key border pattern generator to create dozens of variations.
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Vandelay Design has a great article discussing pricing issues for freelance creatives. The article talks about design services, but it can apply to illustrators, cartoonists – probably any freelancer out there.
More than just a nuts & bolts calculator, the post gets into the nebulous about preceived value, psychology of clients and more. Nothing needing a PhD, but some nice brief insight into the process.
A good read and some good links at the end as well.
12 Realities of Pricing Design Services | Vandelay Website Design.
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The Designer’s Toolbox looks to be a handy one-stop shop for free templates, specs, dimensions, and information for standard postcards, envelopes, CD/DVD layouts, HTML characters, and more.
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Texture King looks to be a great free resource for photographic texture images for your design projects. I downloaded a random file and found it to be 300 PDI @ 3″ x 5″, so the files are of a decent size to use in your print projects, and perfect for web usage.
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Bittbox is working on a cool new project — Conglomerfont. The idea is that creatives send in hand-created letters, and the final result will be collated into one schizophrenic, ransom-note looking über-font from everyone’s submissions. The final font will be freely available and evry paerticipating artist will get credit for their contribution.
There’s still a handful of letters — uppercase & lowercase — as well as numbers left. Head over and drop Bittbox a line about the letter you’d like to create and join the community typeface project.
I created the uppercase “G”.
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Published on
August 14, 2008 in
uncategorized.
Tags: art, artist, brand, design, font, gallery, graphic design, library, logo, reference, resources, Twitter, type, typography, vector.
Found this neat little gallery of surfboard logos via Paul Howalt on Twitter. A huge library of surfboard logos, including multiples of some.
These logos aren’t vector art or anything ready for print (unlike the Brands Of The World vector logo library), just a reference library or perhaps a design inspiration resource.
Seems a high percentage of these are photos of the logos on actual surfboards.
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