the holidays are in full swing. With it comes the annual FORTHGEAR holiday gift. We are knee deep in putting together this years concept. As usual we have bitten off more than we can chew in a lot of ways. Below is a preview of what our clients have to look forward to. Yes, it is an Elvis Snowman!

Here is the third poster in the series I have been desiging for Davis Lanes.

As my family can attest, I am a huge fan of mini-golf. It started as a boy back on family vacations to Bear Lake when all I wanted to do was play mini-golf. Ocassionally I will stumble upon fun products that, if I was made of money, I might enjoy purchasing. Sometimes I even think to myself “why didn’t I think of that?” MyMiniGolf is one of those types of products. I was sent this link by a coworker and probably wouldn’t have posted about it until I ran accross a fun comic book style page that is part of their About Us Section. Click on the Making Of MyMiniGolf and you will see the process, insperation and sweat (literally) that went into their product. I found it inspiring as someone who has a lot of ideas but never the bit of crazy nievete you sometimes need to take a product all the way to market. I commend them for their journey and appreciate the fun way they chose to share the journey with us!

I was working up some logo concepts for a client that thought they needed an eagle and a globe in their identity. These were a couple concepts that while they were completely wrong for this particular client, turned out okay. Maybe they will make a cool t-shirt someday. . .

This is an ad I designed for Wolf Creek’s new corporate event and meeting space, Pineview Lodge. It will be running in an upcoming issue of Utah Business Magazine.

Here is a link sent to me by my friend Greg with some free fonts. Can’t beat that price!

http://www.misprintedtype.com/v3/fonts.php

This is a link to a nice tutorial on a vector based halftone-dot effect. I thought it might come in handy for someone down the road.

http://www.jdempsey.com/create-a-halftone-dot-effect-in-adobe-illustrator/

I have been bowling at Davis Lanes in Layton since I could barely hold a bowling ball. Never in a million years did I ever think they would call FORTHGEAR and ask us to do a project and never in a million years did I ever think they would ever approve the budget and actually go through with a project. While small in scope, we had a lot of fun brainstorming and producing these posters. I got a lot of good support in their development from the great team at FORTHGEAR. They will be going up in their new movie style backlit display that they have installed. Enjoy.

this is a shirt and logo I have designed for our church’s youth conference this september. The theme is One Heart. One Mind.

there was a lot of debate about what colors we should use for both the shirt and the print red on the ash grey were not my first choice but ended up the politically acceptable compromise.

This is a complex illustration I have been working on for one of my clients that is lobbying to get Referendum 1 passed by popular vote here in Utah come November’s election. I guess some state officials are still confused about how the program is going to be funded so they had me work up this diagram. As you can see public education funding is pretty complex. I have to credit my associate Josh for coming up for the original look and feel for the Illustration. I had the fun job of taking the clients sketch and making it make sense…