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"Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

Design Awards

  • Trade show booth design

    Design, concept and management of trade show assets for corporate client.

  • St. Vincent De Paul

    Visual solution from a basic description and provided copy.

  • In house advertising

    Flyer to market the new, smaller newspaper as more local and relevant to potential advertisers.

  • Advertising Supplement

    12 page special section layout, design and pre-press production for the 2009 Ostrich Festival.

  • Local Arts

    Crafting an advertisement to the style and feel of the clients brand.

  • Family football tree

    Concept, design, illustration and headline for weekly high school football section.

  • Packed full of stories and art

    Design, illustration and layout for main section page with multiple brief stories

  • Tangled knot

    When the headline becomes the illustration becomes the design. Don't transform your type into different shapes too often.

  • Iraq culture

    Iraq is divided and the commentary asks why we feel the need to bring them together. The design uses the separation of the people to form the colors of the Iraq flag.

  • People patterns

    Photo-illustration design solution depicting a person with a compass with rural, city, education, and workers.

  • Happiness

    Solutions as simple as this often have gone through rounds of sketches, headline treatments or other photos. Sometimes a visual comparison with contrasting color speaks volumes.

  • Freedom of information

    The story was short, but you get the point of it quickly by how the secondary headline reads through the censored text.

  • Truth in chocolate

    Creating a headline through clever restructuring of the subject at hand.

  • David and Goliath

    How the US wants to be the big shot but it's still not working. Use of 300 point font and white space.

  • Evolving economy

    Cover illustration for a special section about the diversity of the Valley and growth over time.

  • Speaking of the internet

    As the hands tick you get references to websites that are fun to visit.

  • No art but big story

    The Harry Potter book would be arriving soon. This depicts the space on the shelves that it'll occupy for only a short period of time in the stores.

  • Cover bands

    I took the supplied photo that and split it up to allow the copy to flow in the center as if it were intended to be designed this way in the first place.

  • Top ten

    Simple design solution where the top ten topics of the story are the arrows in areas of a target that are in relative positioning of significance.

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