Portfolio Update - New Projects Added

I recently added a few projects to my website along with a few other minor changes. If you have a minute, please take a look and let me know what you think.

Anyways you may have guessed, by my previous post and now this one, take I am now back on the market looking for a freelance gig. Give me a call if you are a small business looking for a memorable logo, eye-catching business cards, a beautiful brochure. I can help you connect with your customers through thought provoking designs strategically tailored to your companies core values.
Here are a few of the projects I recently uploaded check out my site for more information and the rest of my work.







Please check back soon for a bunch of photos of the printed pieces.

Design Firm Friday - 2 - Sandstrom Partners vs. ID Branding

It's a showdown in the little town of Portland, Oregon. While San Francisco and New York get the most design press in the US, Portland's has been making a big splash for small fish. Wow, sorry for the rhymes, ha!

ID Branding
The first firm I want to highlight, ID Branding, has been around since 1979 yet I just recently found their award winning work plastered all over the internet and in design mags.







Sandstrom Partners
The other firm I want to showcase is the packaging powerhouse, Sandstrom Partners, they could be considered to be the king of Portland with amazing branding projects for Tazo, Converse Miller and more, but I haven't seen as much from them lately. Except for their cool monthly color scheme and this, St. Germain Packaging, wow, it's stunning! This may not actually be new but I am just now noticing it at least.























Of course you can't forget about Wieden and Kennedy, but because their website is so rad, I will just let you check out their work for yourself wk.com.

Ambigrams

In the last 3 years I have become fascinated by ambigrams, and they often takeover my sketch pad. An ambigram is a word that can be read forward and backward, like the Nine Inch Nails logo. I especially like the Blacksmith logo designed by John Langdon

and all of the Angels and Demons ambigrams, I believe also done by John Langdon. While searching for ambigrams I noticed that Dan Brown's book is being made into a movie and it's being directed by Ron Howard. Should be a good one.




Earth Air Fire Water by John Langdon


Illuminati by John Langdon

And here are a few that I have made in the last couple years.

Revolution


Believe

This post was inspired by one of David Airey's posts on ambigrams at Logo Design Love