2019, Adobe Illustrator. MTAC’s theme for the big two-20s is “sports”! Get it? Score? I have to admit that sports are not my wheelhouse, so this was an interesting challenge to take on! In fact, big ups to Jon Wright, who saved me at the 11th hour with the inspiration to borrow from a certain […]
2018, Adobe Illustrator. The well-received logo for the 2019 MTAC theme is finally here! Rather than pull total inspiration from Sailor Moon, NASA, or any one thing, this year’s theme was influenced by art deco, something that was also big 100 years ago — in 1919! I was inspired by many different shapes in art […]
2017, Photoshop/Illustrator. Logo for MTAC’s 18th year theme, “18th Battalion”. War is hell. There should be a lot less of it, to say the least. But there is a lot of anime about war, and about the eternal struggle of humankind — our own personal wars within our hearts and minds. Originally going for a more Western-familiar and […]
UNDERTALE came out over a year ago. Can you believe it? It still feels like just yesterday when it burst onto the scene in non-violent glory. I’m so glad that many people ended up loving this game — it even made the local anime convention more fun than usual earlier this year.
2016, sumi ink on rice paper, Adobe Illustrator. Logo for MTAC’s 17th year theme, “Haiku” — 17 syllables. This logo was created by scanning in and assembling strokes created on rice paper with sumi ink, then vectorizing them. More unused symbols were created in this way as well. Look at how the logo’s used in the reveal […]
2015, Adobe Illustrator. I did the theme logo for MTAC 2016 — video games! The logo evokes a retro feel (think Pac-Man or Mega Man) while maintaining a crisp modern aesthetic. It also includes knock-out and flat versions. Its creation included a lot of variations at first… It’s easy to imagine such a logo animated — […]
2013, Photoshop. A work-in-progress design comp for the MTAC 2014 website theme. Keeping with large use of the year’s theme (love) and colors (pink and sky blue), this new general layout for the homepage was aimed to create a more useful and dynamic display of information to visitors, which could easily be updated as well […]
A cute, cartoonishly detailed theme logo I created as Visual Communications Coordinator for Middle Tennessee Anime Convention. This is for MTAC’s 2014 theme, “love”. It flourishes with cherry blossom petals, a powerful visual in Japan often used in love-oriented anime.