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 […]
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 […]
2013. This is the comp of this website’s first WordPress theme, and its current theme. HTML5 valid and CSS3, this theme features custom menus, backgrounds, and headers, though for this website’s purposes they have mainly been coded in manually. Cool Stuff: Get more information by hovering over the images on the homepage’s featured area! Click […]
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.
2012-2013. As Visual Communications Coordinator within the creative development team of ArtsCubed, I collaborated with the marketing team to create promotional design work for MTAC: Devil’s Dozen, the 2013 theme of Middle Tennessee Anime Convention. This included: The Logo Flyers (general and audience-driven) Web Ads and Graphics Newsletter Images Social Media Graphics (including promoting guests) Signage On-Location […]
2012, WordPress. For a small local Japanese/Thai restaurant not far from where I went to college. They needed some things to be done to their outdated website, so I offered a quick redesign, to which they agreed. Its look was inspired by the restaurant’s wooden booths, as well as the sleek black of seaweed-wrapped sushi rolls. […]