My co-workers challenged me to do a shirt design around halloween in the style of something you might find on Woot! or another shirt-a-day website. The idea for a zombie happy-hour came from Catina M. who is a huge zombie-fanatic. I had a good time putting this together and am glad I found it on my desktop today and had a few minutes to share it on my blog.

I had the opportunity to design a Ragnar shirt for the Mountain States Networking team this year. It’s just taken me most of the rest of the year to get it on the blog.

I had the opportunity this fall to design my first ever tapestry blanket to be given out as my companies holiday gift to clients. Below is the design and then a photo of how it translated to tapestry. There were definitely some
challenges in achieving the hoped for vibrancy and consistency of color that I had hoped but it’s still pretty cool to see something you designed woven into a fabric.

The actual blanket

As part of my job at MarketStar, I’m often asked to design down and dirty little logos for internal employee programs / campaigns. Between you and me, this is something I really enjoy. This year we went all out on the BYU vs. Utah Rivalry week with contests and prizes. I was asked to design a logo for the communication just days before things were to kick-off. Anyway. it worked out okay. The game went my way as well this year with the Utes winning 54-10 in Provo. Go Utes!

I was asked by a co-worker to help him create a quick logo for their first-ever entry into their church’s BBQ cook-off.
I didn’t have much time so I experimented with the Kawaii or “Japanese cute” style. They ended up winning best
chicken. Hopefully the branding factored into the results…

I am posting this mostly because I just got a new Wacom tablet and this was the first project I got to use it on. It was a fun illustration. I’ve posted the original pen and ink and then the final which was painted in Photoshop. lots to learn still but the tablet is absolutely amazing!

here is the illustration in the context of the campaign landing page…

I had a great opportunity to illustrate our first official MarketStar infographic this past month. We wanted to do something fun and different to illustrate the challenges sales and marketing organizations often have in terms of sharing information that leads to a healthy sales funnel. Perhaps it was the movie, perhaps it was the fact that we always refer to salespeople here as mavericks. In any case, the more we worked through the idea the more we realized it’s a perfect metaphor for what we were trying to say. Unlike the movie however, we are trying to show that despite their differences, cowboys and aliens need to work together.

You can view the entire campaign and download a larger PDF of the Infographic by clicking here.

UPDATE: We just published a corresponding eBook on Lead Nurturing. Download a copy by clicking here.

We’ve been running a recruiting campaign locally for MarketStar. The theme is “This, Only Way Better”. It’s been a fun campaign because you can customize the message to the audience. We’ve done a great billboard on 1-15 that sits just in front of a local call center. We’ve also been able to do a fun rodeo themed variation. Below is a small ad we did to sponsor Ogden’s Acapella stock concert. Again, we were able to put a fun spin on the overall theme. Let me know what you think.

I designed this logo for my brother-in-law. He is attending graduate school in Kansas and needed this for a business class project so I did this in exchange for free legal council the rest of my professional life – right Dan?

When a young friend of ours was diagnosed with cancer over a year ago, I started a pencil drawing with the intent to give it to her to boost her and her families spirit as they battled through the emotional ups and downs of the trial. I’ve never done well with emotions and as the weeks turned into months and the severity of the situation became heavier and heavier it became harder to bring myself to putting pencil to paper. Earlier this year Madey lost year long battle with a brutal and unfair cancer. When I heard the news I knew immediately that the picture I had started so many months before was meant for another purpose. I forced myself to finish the piece and was able to present it to the family as a memorial at the funeral. They loved it so much that later that month they asked me to do a version they could use on her headstone. It was an honor to be involved in such an intimate and emotional process. I believe our talents our gifts from God and sometimes we are meant to be instruments in his hands to bless others. This was truly my experience with this piece.