Beer Label
hearty congratulations to Ed and Damon (@nycbeerologist) for winning first place in the spiced beer category at the Homebrew Alley Celebration at the Brooklyn Brewery this weekend for their Holiday Robust Porter. As a fan of porters, I was impressed that they could brew their own which held it's own with many porters I've had. They beat out 57 other beers in their category to take home the gold.
http://homebrewalley.org/HA6winners.html
I'm looking forward to their future brews, including this Ryeamerica Ale which will be unveiled at the Super Bowl. Pictured above is the label I've designed for them. Forget the overrated commercials, I'll take a horn of homebrewed ale!
his is a little late, but I'd like to thank my clients for their business in 2011. I feel very fortunate to have been able to work on the kinds of projects that I found exciting and interesting and I'm looking forward to more of the same in 2012. All of the extra work on the weekends and late at night have paid off creatively and professionally. 
ausages and beer go together like chocolate and peanut butter. So do happy clients and happy designers which is what we have here. As a big foodie, I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to design for the food service industry – I know it well from working in restaurant and catering businesses while in school. 
henever I'm on vacation, I make sure that I take digital pictures of any good textures along my path. To mark the end of summer, I've collected some beach, boat, and ocean textures from this year and years past. Feel free to use them as you wish, for personal or professional projects. 
ince getting the iPad 2 about a month ago, I've been trying to figure out how it fits into my professional life beyond consuming design/tech articles and emailing. It's become clear that it's going to make a huge difference in organizing my ideas and my time. But the Holy Grail of course is being able to use it as a straight up design tool. 
ednesday night I had the pleasure of attending the Hatch Show Print workshop at 
ecause every fantasy baseball league seems to have at least one team named after The Warlock himself, Charlie Sheen, I've created some free logos for fantasy baseball managers who have Tiger Blood in them. Enjoy, courtesy your friends at 
ogos are possibly my favorite design projects. I get to make a major impact for a new business or existing one, as well as explore type, concepts and color combinations. And I often get to extend this out to a full brand with textures, color palettes and imagery. The first stage of logo development is usually limited to black and white or grayscale designs as I feel clients can zone in on colors and react to them and lose sight of the overall design. I want a client to be thinking about the design alone and developing a color palette is just an easy and fun step after the initial comps. 