Monthly Archives: March 2009

Blackcat Billboard Ideas

March 31, 2009
Written by:
Stephen Emlund
Filed under:
Billboards, Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Illustration, Redesign, Typography
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I’m currently working on designing a billboard for fredericktown school district – it’s a project meadow heights church is doing for the school. First I had to re-illustrate the low resolution blackcat that I was provided with. There’s gotta be a high-res version floating around somewhere – now I have my own – and it only took 12 hours to recreate.

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Vector Blackcat – gotta love the pen tool and wacom tablet

 

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One idea for the billboard

 

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Variation of the last idea

 

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Totally different idea – it already feels dated to me – almost like a late 80′s, early 90′s school t-shirt or something.

Anyone have some ideas for background textures/elements and or other ideas that could help these designs? I’m open to anything!

Photo of the Moment

March 29, 2009
Written by:
Stephen Emlund
Filed under:
Photo of the Moment, Photography
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@ the Pageant in St. Louis
Railroad Earth @ the Pageant in St. Louis

This Week in Design

March 24, 2009
Written by:
Stephen Emlund
Filed under:
Photography, Print Design, The Design Process, This Week in Design, Typography
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MEADOW HEIGHTS MESSAGE SERIES INVITE CARDS
Do you have what it takes?

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PHOTO RETOUCHING & COLORING
This photo is one that my aunt gave me about a year ago. It’s my dad and other aunt in the 60′s. The photo was almost beyond repair, with the graininess and lack of contrast. I made good use of the burn tool. First I made it black/white then began layering color in and then burned  more contrast in.

This Week in Design

March 16, 2009
Written by:
Stephen Emlund
Filed under:
Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, Jobs, Print Design, The Design Process, This Week in Design, Typography, Website Design
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MEADOW HEIGHTS CHURCH ‘REMEMBER’ MESSAGE SERIES

Another message series! I’ll have another one to post in two weeks. This one was a borrowed set of graphics from LifeChurch.tv. What is borrowed is the glass image and ‘remember’ logo. The rest is a unique design that fits the Meadow Heights ‘style’. It’s funny that Meadow Heights ‘style’ is identical to my design style. I just counted how many message series graphic sets I’ve designed for Meadow Heights….. drum roll please….. 28!

 

ICONNECT – YOUR ONLINE CONNECTION TO ALL THINGS ATSU

Still being developed, but I just had to share this. This is website numero deuce that I’ve developed for ATSU. It follows the same style that atsu.edu does and still has it’s own identity. The most important aspect is the ATSU blue banner that is consistant across all ATSU websites. The footer is a unique aspect that will be used on all new websites I develop. It’s an alternative to the global navigation at the top of the website.

 

SGA – STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

This is a sneak peak at an even less developed website. the goal here is to globalize the two SGA’s – one for Arizona campus and one for the Missouri campus.

Creative Improv’ing

March 8, 2009
Written by:
Stephen Emlund
Filed under:
Branding, Creative Improv, Design Concept/Ideas, Inspiration, My Life, The Design Process, Website Design
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I’ve spent the last four months working on starting my own freelance business known as Creative Improv. It is a unique collaboration between myself and Michael, but also might include more folks in the future depending on the specific project (photographers & programmers). Michael and I would always tell each other, “you know we should start a design business”. Well that’s what we’re doing. I’m the designer while Michael is the creative director. Check out our website so far: http://creativeimprov.com – not much yet, but more is coming.

Creative Improv’s thought process is centered on the idea of simplicity that Jazz Bassist, Charles Mingus puts forth:

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.

Speaking of simplicity: This is one of the first concepts for the Creative Improv website.

click to view it larger!

Be sure to ‘follow’ creativeimprov on Twitter.com to keep up to date on the website progress and new projects we are doing!

This Week in Design

March 7, 2009
Written by:
Stephen Emlund
Filed under:
Branding, Design Concept/Ideas, My Full-Time Job, Redesign, This Week in Design, Website Design
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NEMO Triathlon Website Redesign
This week I worked on a few different websites, but they can’t be shown yet, since they aren’t public on ATSU’s website yet. This one was a homepage design for the triathlon that the Rec Center at A.T. Still sponsors

Get excited!