This was just a silly t-shirt design I whipped up for my brother who lives with his roommates with 2 guinea pigs and an occasional rat in Chicago, IL.

I just launched a new identity and web site project for a music organization in New York City called Ars Viva Music. Ars Viva consists of 3 main parts, a private music studio, small chamber music ensembles for special events and commissions, and a larger chamber orchestra. I love doing graphic design for classical musicians, so this was right up my alley!

Above is just a snippet of the sketching I did before doing a few refined logo sketches on the computer.

Home Page

I’m excited about this site, in particular, because it represents my first efforts in coding in HTML5. It really just takes advantage of the new semantic markup which I really like. I think it’s going to make for a much cleaner and easier to read web someday. I also think HTML5 will be great for people who rely on assistive technology to surf the web (like screen readers and such). I’m looking forward to the audio and video portions of HTML5, too, so I hope that technology becomes more mainstream soon. For more information, I found Dive into HTML5 very helpful as well as HTML5 for Web Designers.

View the Ars Viva web site online!

Secondary Page

This was a fun new identity project for percussionist Cory Hills who has a side project called The Percussive Art of Storytelling. The project also included a few other pieces of collateral including a letterhead and mailing label. I had taken some photographs for Cory about a year ago and was excited to be able to use them on back side of the business cards!

This is a new logo I’ve designed for Struct/restruct Associates which is a local design, renovation, construction, woodworking and building firm located in Lawrence, KS. They also specialize in historic renovations and masonry. AND, they offer unique, local reclaimed lumber in their projects which is a great way to recycle old lumber that is perfectly usable. They mill the wood and everything! Congratulations to Josh and Matt for getting this venture underway!