Chuck Ortiz

My Editor-in-Chief asked me to illustrate a portrait of him to use for social networking. We're toying with the idea of me potentially illustrating the rest of the staff as well, either way this was fun!

5 ways to keep it real.. Italo style.

Illustration I did for an article on italian cuisine. The title was '5 ways to keep it real: Italo style" so I drew a hand holding out it's five digits while sprinkling some basil on a bowl of delicious pasta. I did two different color ways, but I found the orange hand worked best. omnom.

DOTPR

My friend is starting her own pr company in sunny LA and she asked me to create her identity. Here's the final logo we decided on and some sample web pages I've created for her.

Cuddle Timez.

I was asked to create a narrative for my first attempt at silkscreen in general print last fall. I decided to show a make-belief fur re-growth formula at work. These are some of the drawings I created for the prints using simple pen & ink.

Letterpress Final Project

These are the drawings I used to make polymer plates for my final project for letterpress last semester. I'll throw the final prints up here once they're unpacked. I printed them on newsprint with a translucent white as the background of the hand and some of the text, along with handset type defining the correlating word.

The morning Benders.

Typography assignment last semester where we were asked to create artwork for individual songs off the same album to be placed in Itunes.

Chroma & Serenade

Silk screen and lino and watercolor, oh my!

My final project for general print last semester.. I made a digital collage which I then silkscreened, I cut the ampersand out of lino (first time doing lino, not bad?).. theeeen added watercolor and ink details, enjoy.

Whimsical?

Canadian Owl Stamp

House & Home.

Typography 3 assignment: We were given two articles from house & home and had to design them under the same restrictions given to their designers. We used their templates as well as their fonts. Here's what I managed to come up with, enjoy.

how to:

Project for Design 3, I had to show how to use an object in five steps. I chose to show how to make a scarf into a hat. enjoy.

typeface report revised.

wtf is ocad?

So this week I threw in some designs for the redesigning of OCAD swag. Here they are. Also, I am fully aware I'm obsessed with budesbahn and I'm trying REALLY hard not to design with it... it has proved much more difficult than one might have thought. What does a designer do when they have a love affair with one font? download thousands more. I have been on a spreeeee.. one of my new favorites is blocked (no idea who it's by.. it doesn't say.. odd)..could never ever work for body copy but I'm not even concerned with that right now... that's right.. said it.. eff legibility. Let the minions work to read. haha, kidding... not really. Anyways, enjoy?

miam.

les oiseaux.

sometimes add makes you more productive. yay!

shoo cont'd.

business card created for 'shoo'.. and continuation of our earlier branding project. Coming up will be a four page spread, fun fun fun.

headers.

Just out of boredom. enjoy.

saved soul.

I designed this logo and package for a 'green' shoe company.

look.

I had to make 25 designs after the word 'look'. I decided to just show everyday things you look at, and place the word where you look. Here are a few I liked.Oh, I added color after the fact, it seems all second year assignments involve no color. boo.