Wife didn’t like the flames idea (see below) so working on this:

Previous design (that bit the dust):

A friend and I are building a custom MAME cabinet. I am doing 100% custom graphics on the cabinet sides, control panel overlay and the backlit marquee.

This all started as a desire to own an original TEMPEST arcade machine like this one. This was a game my brother and I spent WAY TOO MUCH time on in the 80’s. It is a long story, but it is about the same money to build a Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator and then you can play Tempest AND about 2000 other games too! Since this all started with the Tempest machine, I wanted to give a nod to the side art of that machine, but incorporate my design logo. I also wanted the main colors to be orange and black and since I am a pyromaniac, I thought flames were a good element to include.

We are ordering a cabinet from MAMEROOM and are having them wire up the control panel to. The cabinet graphics and control panel overlay will be printed on adhesive backed vinyl and laminated with polycarbonate. The control panel will also be covered in plexiglass. The marquee (wich is backlit) will be printed on film design for backlit signs and then sandwiched between two sheets of plexi.

This is a design for a shirt for the moms in a the Crossings Christian School booster club to wear at games and spirit functions. They were looking for something with some femininity to it, but still a little funky. The school colors are red, black and white. They chose black shirts becasue they want to apply rhinestones to the design and they show up better on black.

I am working on a logo for a business concept.

For the last several years I have had the privilege of helping my grandfather, Garman Kimmell, make his Christmas card. For over 60 years he has created his own photo Christmas Cards. There is always a theme and many years it took special exposures and development in the darkroom to create his effects (all WAY before digital). When it got to difficult for him to use the darkroom I offered to produce his ideas, his way, only digitally. He agreed and for the first few years I digitally did the masks and cut and paste and then had a negative printed which he exposed and developed on paper in his own darkroom. Then he began to be intrigued with what we could do digitally, and he started letting me do more for him. These were all fun projects to work on with him.

My father and I created a final card to send out to his Christmas card list:

This is the design concept for a book cover. My 5th grade son and some friends from school are trying their hands at being authors. They are co-writing a book and ask me if I would help with the cover art. Since I have never been asked to do a cover for a book before, I was honored and readily agreed.

Their initial idea was to have a sword on the cover, but as we worked the idea for the clock face in the title type and the Japanese kanji for Samurai looked better. Any good male middle school level book has to have lightning or fire or something on the cover…we went with lightning and then used a posterize filter to give it a surrealistic effect.

Design concept for a custom Buff for the Pirana Brothers.

Design for a Pirana Brothers “Tuke”, which is Canadian for Beanie. This item would be made by Sugoi which is a Canadian company. Sugoi has an option on their web site to download a template for some of their products. Once you have created art on the template you can upload it back to their site and a 3-D view of the item is created. I hacked the calls for the flash routine that displays the rendering and put it here.

I started a list of ways I could render the T3 Design logo. After I did the first few I started turning them into wallpapers for my computer:

LiteBrite - Everyone had one of these as a kid I think. They were a lot of fun and presented an interesting challenge since the pegs were in a hex pattern. I also remember that when you screwed up and put a peg in the wrong place you had a hole that light came through that you couldn’t fix! This is not a real picture, it is photoshoped from a website I found: LiteBrite

Stained Glass - This is another completely photoshoped image. I found stock images of glass and then created the “lead” frame and the landscape outside. This one was challenging, but fun.

Sand - Again, totally photoshoped. I found a stock image of the beach and then used filters to create the impression in the sand.

Embroidery - This one is real. I got a friend was has a monogramming business (You Name It) who offered to sew my logo out for me. I snapped a pic and cleaned it up a bit and there it is.

VCT Tile Floor - Another complete photoshop job. I used sample tile images from a web site selling tile and then created the pattern and outline. The chair is from an entry in a digital design contest.

Pixelated - I have always enjoyed pointelism and the associated art. I have played around with photoshop and several online resources to create lots of interesting effects. This is just one version.

Foam Craft - Long story short, we have advent at our house on Sunday (during the 4 weeks of advent of course) and invite several families over. Each Sunday a different family is in charge of a craft for the kids to do. This was one of the crafts. Everyone else made angels and “joy” and crosses, I made T3Design!

Barcode - Simple concept. I used an online barcode generator to create a barcode that actually is “T3DESIGN” and then fit it into a template of my logo. Kind of cool I think.

Skyscraper - Stock photo that I stretched and then photoshopped the lights in the windows.

Other Ideas waiting to be done:

• brand on a cow (or even better, a zebra)
• bottle caps (like a pixelated image)
• torch cut metal
• sketch on a napkin
• mowed into grass, or a crop circle thing
• icing on a cake / cake cut and eaten
• ice sculpture
• indie concert poster
• tread pattern in the bottom of a shoe
• pavement, pavestones, etc.
• cars in a parking lot
• architectural plan
• painted on a barn
• painted on a brick wall
• hooked rug
• needle point or cross stitched (or both)
• type
• seats in a stadium
• post-it notes
• shaved into hair on head
• tattoo
• christmas lights
• craters on the moon
• “grand canyon”
• mustard on a hamburger
• pin art / replicator
• highway sign
• sewer grate or manhole cover

Three design concepts for a Team Pirana flag.

Design concept for a coffee label for Providence Hall. Sanguis Leoninus means “lions blood” in latin. THe school colors are blue and red, so taking the red to go with the “blood” part made sense. The coffee is a fund raising item, so having the number people can call to get more was very important. It was also necessary to make sure they knew they were buying whole bean coffee, the roast type, and what kinds of beans they are.

The decision to use a single label saves money and effort but presents the necessity to present all the info on the front of the product. The goal was to be informative but not too sterile.