It's ALIVE!!!!

Rob Anspach always throws one helluva good Halloween bash! And it's become a tradition for him to tap the shoulder of one of his fellow designer pals to create each year's invite postcards and posters! Well... this year I had the privilege of doing so! I figured I'd design this year's invite with the feel of the old horror/suspense comics - and I'm really happy with how it turned out! (I've included my rough sketches below, as well, to show the process I went through to get to the final end-product.)

Grobot Concept Sketches

Last holiday season I had the pleasure of working on our holiday promo at Real Art! As always - the Real Art Holiday Promo is a team effort andeveryone gets involved. And it always has a tie-in with a local charity, etc. This year we created "Grobots" and auctioned them off in a silent auction format - proceeds going to various Hope Equity Micro-Endowments. The project was a success and we sold out of our various "Steam-Punkish" creations over the following months! I was looking through some of my past projects the other day and stumbled across these concept sketches I did back at the start of the Grobots project and I thought they were worthy of sharing here!

Check out www.recycledlifeforms.com to see where we ended up! We one Adobe Site of the Day back in January for this project... and several other awards as well. It was definitely a fun project to be involved in.

Cornhole Guys!

While I'm on the subject of cool little retro-looking characters, I thought it appropriate to show off some little guys I invented for my pal Ben Witherspoon recently. He's one of the masterminds behind Cornhole.com - the #1 makers, suppliers, distributors of Cornhole game sets, products, etc in the world. (Man - I hope they have a better elevator speech than I just tried to construct! Haha)

Anyway - he came to me about designing their biz cards, letterhead, envelopes... the whole 9 yards. And soon I'll be working on their brochure. But these little fellas are playfully present on all their printed stuff.

Oh... and be sure to check out Cornhole.com and buy a set!

A Happy Little Character

I like the simple sculpted "line" of this little fella. Some lazy Sunday coming up soon I plan on animating this little character, but for now - I thought I'd share a simple sketch of him.