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JWorks Management Website Launch

James — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:45:34 +0000

Since the launch of iFilehere.com, I’ve been working on another project for JWorks Management. The project included branding and website design using a WordPress CMS integration. The website features a video section, contact section, twitter feed and blog feed. Always enjoy working with JWorks! Check out the image and the website @ http://www.jworksmgmt.com

JWorks Website

I have several projects I’m working on right now. I will post the next one asap!
-James

ifilehere.com Website Launch

James — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:38:45 +0000

I’ve been working on several projects right now. I’ve also been working on finishing my associates in graphic design. Boy, am I busy! So one of the projects i’ve been working on is www.ifilehere.com a tax return website. They are a local company from Michigan, so I was pretty excited to work with them!

This website is based on wordpress cms. I’ve been working alot lately with wordpress theme’s and they really seem to be easy to launch and maintain. I’ve launch a blog, forums and newsletter with this site. I also recreated the top logo and all of the images on the website itself. Overall it turned out pretty well! I’m excited to continue working with them!

iFilehere.com Website Screen Shot

LA Trash Apparel Website

James — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:39:44 +0000

As of recently, I’ve been FINALLY working on a project that I’ve been working on since 2010. It’s finally here. It’s almost finished and that means I will be able to reveal it within the next few weeks! Obviously its LA Trash Apparel. A clothing company I’ve been working on. I’m really excited as the clothing is arriving within the next week! Which means the shop will be completed by next week and everything will be completely launched! Right now I have the base structure implemented into the website and because of that it is up and running! Which is okay because the look is finished and so are the current pages. We will be launching 5 T-Shirts with tags removed from the back and a custom LA Trash Apparel tag screen printed on the back. They are all printed on American Apparel for more comfort! We haven’t launched the products yet, nor are they for sale yet, but it’s coming!

Check out the current progression @ http://iamtrashed.com
-James
www.1987clothing.com

Happy New Year!

James — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:44:05 +0000

Just wanted to take the time to say Happy New Year to everyone and I hope everyone gets to start off with a fresh new year and new things!

I have been keeping myself busy with a few projects I will be updating soon!
Thanks to everyone that supports my work or anything else I do!

-James

The Quiet City Screams T-Shirt Designs

James — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:27:36 +0000

So I’ve been working on these 2 designs since the last blog update. The first shirt is another anchor design that I did. It’s different then the previous anchor designs I’ve done. On the anchor shirt I used the pen tool to create the anchor in Adobe Illustrator I also created the main font in Illustrator as well. Overall I tried something new completely designing this t-shirt in Illustrator instead of importing to Photoshop. I managed to keep it down to 3 colors which is surprising that I Was able to get it that low. I wanted to go with 4 – 6 colors!

The Second Shirt was created in Photoshop. Once I created the text, it was all pretty much rasterized so I could manipulate it to fit the design. The bottom features a city amongst the shapes that were rasterized to and then added a grunge to make it fit the style I was reaching. I thought the lines added a nice touch as well. This shirt was limited to 2 colors as well but I still feel those 2 colors worked out well!

I will have more to post soon enough!
-James

The Quiet City Screams Anchor Shirt

The Quiet City Screams City Shirt

Updated blog

James — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:35:22 +0000

Today and yesterday I’ve managed to get the blog updated and had to work on the layout a bit to get it back and running completely how it was. I’m still updating and adding things and will be throughout the day. I will also have a new post tomorrow with a new shirt design that I recently finished.

Happy Holidays!
-James

Currently Working.

James — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:44:05 +0000

So I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been busy with school. I finished this semester of classes this week! So now, it’s back to working hard on design. Since I haven’t posted anything in a few I’ll start with everything going on right now. I am currently in the process of a blog update, So I’m currently backing up the database tonight and preparing the blog for the update.

On the other hand, I’ve got a few projects I’ve been working on.
Toronto Ink has had the website re-designed to a lighter fit.
You can always check it out at http://www.torontoink.com. I’ve also posted it on the main page of my portfolio.
Here is screen:

Toronto Ink Website Screen Shot

After the blog is updated I will be including another blog update about the blog update and another project that is currently in progress.

-James

Final Thought Drum Head

James — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:15:35 +0000

It’s been a REALLY long time since I’ve designed a drum head. But! I had a order come in for it in the past couple weeks. I’ve mentioned several times about the launch of the entire Final Thought Project including the Website and CD Packaging. Well they wanted to go even further as to making the drummers bass drum head the CD cover. So, my task was to make that happen. Not sure if he will have his porthole lined up like this but this is a mockup only. I think this is personally one of the coolest bass drum heads I’ve ever seen. Anyways, Check it out.

Final Thought Bass Drum Head

Toronto Ink Tattoo Studio T-Shirt

James — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:25:28 +0000

After completing the website to http://www.torontoink.com I set sail on a journey for some new T-Shirts for these guys. First if you live in Toronto, Canada or surrounding areas…. Check them out! They have done some amazing work!

I had fun designing these shirts. The sky was pretty limitless as to what I could design. So I started out working on one shirt at a time… The first design came to me as I put it together. We already had a general idea for the second shirt. Our idea was a Jersey Shore Workout Shirt that guys could wear to the gym at the same time with a flare! I think we pinned it perfect. So with all that said below are the 2 T-Shirt concepts that will soon be displayed inside Toronto Ink Tattoo Shop and eventually in an Online Store.

In the first shirt I used a halftone for the upper “Toronto” text. As for the Splatter’s I actually went outside and used a can of spray paint and sprayed paper and let the paper dry up and scanned it into illustrator.

The second design I used the pen tool and created the bird. After I created the bird I created everything else around it and used a college font. Afterwards I gave it the washed out look using Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Grunge Patterns That are actually grunge’s that I made myself and are available for download in the Photoshop Brushes section or on Brusheezy.

Toronto Ink - Inked Up - Heather black

Toronto Ink - Bird T-Shirt - Forest

LA Trash Apparel Designs

James — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:03:08 +0000

I’ve been so busy with school and design I haven’t been able to post to any website. I have been working on a lot of designs. I guess it would be appropriate to post them separately.

First, after finishing the Final Thought Project I have been working on a couple shirts.
I finished two new T-Shirts with LA Trash. The clothing line is finally in the process of finalizing shirt design ideas and getting them printed off and ready. I’ve posted all the previous designs all over the web, however here is the newest designs.

The First is a T-Shirt I’ve previously displayed, however the colors have been altered to a more fitting pattern. I first started this design randomly making text paths in Adobe Illustrator CS5. As the design started coming together I start using only text to create the entire shirt. I really like this design it is probably one of my favorites.

The Second is a Zip-Up Hoodie. When I went into this design I had no idea where I was going. After a while I started creating the text in Adobe Illustrator CS5 with the idea of some how incorporating “This is my hood” into the shirt. After I came up with the text I liked the idea of an abstract city in the background of the text and then once it was all finished I topped it off with the LA Trash trademarks of the Garbage Can in the background as well as LA Trash Apparel embedded throughout the large text. Overall This is my favorite design I have ever done. I can’t wait for it to get printed off.

LA Trash Text T-Shirt

LA Trash This is my hood