Splash Page For Friend's Photography Website

I'm working on designing a couple splash pages for my friend Travis Burke's photography website. Here's one I have so far, and his photography website can be viewed at: www.travisburkephotography.com

GalleryDrive Web Banners

These are a couple of banners I designed for some friends of mine in the hip hop group Gallery Drive. The banners will be up on the website www.SphereOfHipHop.com. I can't wait to here their album!

HDR shots from the SD Zoo

Here are a couple HDR shots of two Sumatran Orangutans exhibited at the San Diego Zoo. Their hair, texture and the nature surroundings made for a decent HDR shot. There are a lot of good photography subjects at the Zoo, so it was pretty easy to come home with a lot of shots.

Brochure Design - 24/7 Affordable In-home Care

This is a brochure I recently designed for my family's in-home care service for the elderly. I made an effort to convey comfort and elegance through the photos and color scheme.

Program Design - A Musical Tribute to Ray Orias

Here's the program I designed for the Musical Tribute to Ray Orias to be held June 20, 2009. I tried to keep with the theme of a somber but at the same time an uplifting occasion, with the black and white photos and the color photo within it, along with the stained / aged paper look and feel.

Ray Tribute T-Shirt Design (Vector Illustration)

This is a vector illustration I did of my great friend Ray Orias who passed away last year.

The design is for the shirt that several former bandmates of Ray will be wearing during a tribute performance this March 29, 2009, as well as other performances in the future.

These images show how I went about doing the vector illustration from the original photo. I first edited the levels of the photo to come up with three different tones of the image. From there, I created paths for each of the different tones that I felt best brought out his facial features.

I had to keep in mind that this design was for a screen print, and so, it was important I layered the colors properly and separated each of the paths to go along with the 4 colors to be printed.

This was how I went about doing this particular illustration portrait, but it can definitely be done other ways. And even though I'm sure it's obvious, I should point out that I got the theme from Shepard Fairey's Obama / Obey image.

The t-shirt will be available for sale in the near future (all proceeds will go towards the Ray Orias Memorial Fund).

NomiS Photoshoot

Here are some of the photos from my shoot with NomiS last week.