Work over the winter

Here are a couple Live projects I did over the winter intercession. The first is a flier for a church event:

I was pleased with this piece for a couple reasons: one, its use of metaphor, the guy breaking through the brick wall is a picture of breaking free of things in the past and on the reverse side there are a couple of bricks taken out of the wall to see the possibilities of what lies beyond.

Second is the use of mixed media and collage. Since I was small I've loved sketching and pen and ink work but it's never really made it into my design work. One reason is that design studios are often so fast paced, you never get the time to produce this kind of work. With this piece I had some time so used pen and ink for the wall, cut photographs for the grass and wall and water color for the sky.

The next piece was a logo design for a local ice cream company just getting started. Actually, it's my neighbor. He's recently bought an old vintage ice cream making machine (looks like an old steam engine) and is going to tour the country's festivals and sell ice cream. This is the finished logo:

And this is a self portrait I did for fun. You can see I'm really having fun with the pen again :)