Back to school again. Time for Varsity Basketball Homecoming, so they asked me to design a shirt.

Tried to capture the NIKE baller feel. Something the kids would think was cool. At least my 15 yr old liked it!

My best friend’s parent’s company needed a brand update. He ask me to design a logo that would work on vehicles, embroidered on clothing items, and for stationary and such.

When I ask what he was looking for he replied:

“They have a great reputation. Lots of trust built up over the years in a) the quality of what they produce and b) the integrity of their dealings with people. They’ve also been doing this for 25 years, and my mom’s dad had a version of this business for 30+ years before this.

So I want something that communicates strength, consistency, and dependability. It also needs to fit in the ‘good ol’ boy’ world. This is the land of International Harvester and International Paper, not international espionage. Hay bales, not Christian Bale.

Something clean that can be used as a site header and a logo.”

In further talks I also learned that they drive red trucks. So I was looking for a way to represent the idea of modular spaces, portability and expandability and give it a strong, consistent and dependable feel. I went with a modified square as a foundational icon, a cornerstone if you will, and then filled it with smaller squares to denote independent sub division and parts. The good news is, they liked it.

I do the design work for the Annual Auction and Dinner for our school, Crossings Christian School. This year they ask me to make the design a little quirky and fun. Our colors are Red, Black and White. I went with the dramatic black background and used the diamond because we are going to be auctioning off a diamond. Once I put the diamond on the black i decided it needed to be spot lit and then the rest kind of fell into place.

I did the poster/ad first and then worked up a ’save the date’ card.

The design of the Oklahoma City Turkey Trot T-Shirt. Obvious rip-off of the “got milk?” campaign.

I wanted to get something fall or turkey into the design, so I posterized some feathers and weaved them into the text.

Fox 25 (the race media sponsor) liked the idea and tied it into their spot:

The local chapter of runHers liked the “runHers for the Cure” shirt so they came back and ask about a design for their trip to run the San Antonio Rock & Roll Marathon. They wanted to promote the runHers identity and also play off the rock & roll theme.

I decided to make the participants rock stars and have the shirt design be a signed guitar. The front logo incorporates the runHers logo into musical notes and identifies the race, location and date.

Crossings Christian School was looking for a new spirit shirt design to show off the knight mascot and create some buzz and identity. One challenge was designing for a print on red and black shirts and utilizing the color of the shirt as one of the design colors without requiring separate screens. This was the result:

I do a lot of the design work for Crossings Christian School. Early in the process of establishing an identity we purposefully didn’t modify the crest or the knight image much. Now that the school is larger and better known and the brand is established we have been branching out a little and doing some cooler stuff.

This is a design for a men’s thermal t-shirt.

Shirt design for an Oklahoma race produced by the Pirana Brothers. Two races were held at the same time, one a 24 road race and the other a 24 hour trail race. The 24 The Hard Way idea played off the “hard” surface of the road as well as the “difficulty” of running for 24 hours. For the Double Dirty Dozen the idea hinged on the dirt of the trail and 2 x 12 = 24.

We are all familiar with the Komen “Race for the Cure” series. The local chapter of runHers wanted to make a statement during their participation this year so they ask me to design a shirt for them to wear during the race. I chose to invoke the runner ribbon used by Komen but rendered in the dots that runHers are known for.

Logo and header for a text message service. Took the text bubble from an iPhone (completely reworked of course) and used that as the basis for the logo. The guy I did this for wanted a push card to use during the presentation and business cards. The business card is the green logo bubble on a narrow, slightly longer than normal card. The push card is 6″ square and is a larger text bubble on one side with talking points and a framed area with the rest of the info on back.