Instagram has a helpful gesture where you can pinch to zoom photos. That’s nice. It would be nicer if that meant Instagram let you post higher resolution photos, but really, you can just zoom in on the standard resolution. That’s okay.
Category: Illustration
Personalized Credit Card
The bank has personalized credit cards now. They print up the card with a photo of your choice, either from their gallery or from an upload. Their guidelines are for a 840 by 840 pixel image but that’s a little bit confusing. They don’t seem to post any guidelines on the correct proportional sizing for a background image which shouldn’t be square, but instead rectangular.
No matter. This cropped fine onto the credit card. Which I can’t go back and review anymore for some reason. So no screen shot. My bad.
SINAC logo
Seattle International Narcotics Anonymous Convention (SINAC) 2017 had an opening for a graphic designer. I’m volunteering to do the work and this is my introduction piece. It combines a variation on the Seattle Mariner’s logo with the organization’s logo, spelling out the SINAC acronym.
Gutter Monks
Our bowling team needed a logo for shirts, because bowling teams need shirts and shirts need logos. I don’t make the rules, I just break them when I can.
Glyph of warding
Fingersketch glyph.
John Wayne Pioneer Trail
Logo design for the John Wayne Pioneer Trail in the Iron Horse State Park.
Fingersketch
A quick fingersketch in Procreate Pocket.
Here To Stay
Designing logos can be incredibly challenging. The trick for me is to spend a lot of time with the idea away from my desk where I feel pressure to be putting ideas into documents. Ideas have to begin in the fertile fields of imagination and be allowed to graze for a while.
It’s nice to have a smartphone on which to sketch out ideas when they come to me from out of the mists. iOS has a cute Notes application where I can make sketches with my finger. When the idea struck me to use the You Are Here pin icon as part of the logo, I sketched it out on top of a Treasure Map X and filled in the edges of the X with arrows. The idea was that the X and the <O were denoting Here and the arrows would denote Staying.