Wire Wings t-shirt teaser

I've been working on a tshirt design for a long time and I've finally made the jump to starting the digital work on it. Here is a teaser of the base work that has been done so far. I'm calling it the 'Wire Wings' for now.

Hope you like it! More to come on this for sure.

-Jake

RawData Web Project

As promised, though a couple days slow, here is a link to the RawData website which went live earlier this week.

http://therawdata.com/

There are some holes in the site as far as database integration but that is not what I was responsible for. There is also some bigger functionality stuff that will be revised in the near future but for now here it is!

-Jake

(Here is a screen shot of the home page.)

Quick update, I've been cramming on the previously posted RawData website. The site design was completed awhile back and then we started development but had to fire the development company when they didn't actually do anything do anything after multiple weeks. Now I'm taking a more active role by doing the front end coding as well as the original design. When the site goes live look for a link.

-Jake

Photochopped Larry

Been working on figuring out and learning a new technique for 'photochopping' a car.

Here is the base photo:

Here is stage one in progress:

And here it is currently:

I plan to white out the grill and headlight bezels and see what I think. Then I will flatten it all, add some noise, and try putting it on a different background.

-Jake

Been awhile and needed a new skull

here is my newest skull design:

I originally did this design a few years back I recently wanted to do a more Adobe Illustrator friendly version so I put this together. Shortly I hope to actually put this in Illustrator and do a digital version.

-Jake

Hotrod Wagon that is Hotrod done

Awhile back this itch crept up on me to build a hotrod wagon for my 1 1/2 old son. He has a little plastic wagon that he liked to be pulled around in but he is already wayyyy to big for it.

This is what I started with:

And this is what I built:

My son really likes to ride around in the wagon. Here is a pic of him just last night after we had taken three different walks around the neighborhood!

The wagon was over built to handle the future terror that he will rain down upon it so its a bit heavy for him right now, here is a pic of him attempting to move it on grass!

And apparently he got the urge to look like Kareem Abdul Jabbar while riding and busted out my protective eye wear.

Had to throw this out there but I promise I'll get back to other design stuff!

-Jake

Bullet holes, rivets, and a smashed skull

So my friends and I liked the smashed skull image so much that I added our motor club name to it and then built a custom wallpaper.

Ta Da!

I also began working on a new skull design that isn't for anything in particular other than fun... or maybe a shirt....

-Jake

Hammered Skull v2

Here is a newer version which so far is by far my favorite!

-Jake


Edit:

Here is the design after digitalization:

Hammered Skull

A new doodle of my anvil smashed skull.

A little sadistic bad luck

Had an idea rattling around in my head for the last few days and I finally decided to build it. The illustration goes along with the idea of The Luckless, here it is:

I had fun putting this one together! I actually built the skull out of pieces to get the right angle on it and also to get the jaw jacked out like that. I'd probably wear that on a shirt!

This will be an evolving design as you are seeing it in version 1.0 so stay tuned for updates to it.

-Jake

Skull Appreciation Day!

I have been following the blog over at skulladay.blogspot.com and love the work they are doing and have been considering doing my on 365 day project. (more info on that here). SkullADay has declared June 4th 'Skull Appreciation Day'. Click the image above to get some more info and also to see the work happening on that site. Great creative stuff that is also inspiring!

-Jake

Could have waited but didn't

So I know I've done a large number of posts in a short amount of time but I just had to share this piece.

This is the newest and what I could consider almost totally finished version of the new The Luckless logo.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

-Jake

"Branding Ninja" - my new title

My father took on a new job a year or so ago. The job was with a startup called Raw Data and involved some pretty amazing goals that required equally amazing levels of development skills and talent, both of which my dad has plenty of! Well the company made some awesome progress over the last year and, unlike Matchplay in a previous post, they have continued to grow and flourish. I was approched by the CEO about coming on in a branding capacity. This isn't a regular job and I only earn equity in the company for my efforts but the opportunity is one that is pretty incredible for any designer this early in his/her career so I accepted. With the new side job I also got a new title... but its one I got to CHOOSE! So I am the 'Branding Ninja' for Raw Data in Salt Lake City, Utah.

My first move was to sneak up on and judo chop the logo. The logo was designed early on and while solid had some fundamental problems. Here is a comparison of the original and my modified version:

Original:

My first edit (top) and my second edit (bottom):

It was important to me to add some visual weight to the mark and also to tighten up kerning of the lettering. There is still some work that can be done on the kerning but this is pretty close. I also wanted to flip the divider/underline bar so that instead of dropping down and then to the left it dropped down and then swiped to the right. In the west we read left to right and have a sense that moving forward means to move to the right from the left. Having the line the way it was suggested, even subconsciously, that RawData was moving backwards and they are doing anything but that!

The website is also under construction. We started with a registered user section since the major reason for the site is to facilitate the dissemination of info to and to assist the registered users. After that it is to inform potential user. Here is the page that I've title 'Panelist'er' (since our registered users are actually members of a user panel):

The column on the left is a blog format panel that allows Raw Data to post information to and for the general population of the panel.

The column on the right is specific to the panelist and allows the user to see and manage their account, settings, see usage stats, and provides direct links to the panelist to communicate with Raw Data.











The second page, as mentioned, is an informational page designed to inform and inspire prospective panelists, a page I've titled 'Prospect'er':

Similar to the panelist page, I have use a three column layout with the column on the far left being a quick reference column and the two on the right being combined into one and used to provide the more detailed break down of what is required to be a panelist.













The project is based on a concept of washing away the old archaic way of doing things with a digital, streamlined, and more fluid solution. To visualize this I used a white wash idea of Raw Data and its process flowing down and over the old way of doing things, which is represented by the orange color filled with blurred and cluttered spread sheets, the current standard in the industry. The fluidity of RawData is conveyed to the viewer by the flowing liquid but the rigid three column and very geometric shapes of the body of each page shows the predictability of the data format that you can expect from RawData.


This in an ongoing project and changes will happen and more pages will be added, I hope to provide samples here as I complete pages.

-Jake

MatchPlay Identity & Site Design

A good friend passed my name along to a guy he knew that was interested in building a website that provided stats tracking for rec. or comp. teams for youth sports. The site was based off a system that his grandfather had developed through years of involvement in youth sports but was totally paper based. My task was to update the brand and design the initial website, front end, design.

Here is the mark in its updated form:

(I always display my mark designs the way I did in college, with a full sized version in color followed by the same mark in reduction and in black and white.)



Here is the site design. Keep in mind that this is the first iteration of the site and ultimately the company failed to take off and the project was killed so this is as far as it went. I put it here because it shows an early step in my process and hopefully you can see the direction I was taking it. The developer and the owner of the idea were both thrilled with the design and concept.

Like I said the company ran into some logistical and financial issues so this project, unfortunately, didn't come to total fruition.


-Jake