Tag: freelance

  • Show and Tell: Real Hot Dog Tee

    Three cheers to eagle eye’d Aaryn Nutter for spotting one of my designs on the Urban Outfitters website! I created this t-shirt for CDC Apparel last year and am super jazzed it got printed. Click here to buy one for the guy in your life! (Photo from the Urban Outfitters website.)

  • One More IBTrav Design to Vote On!

    Our buddy Trav went and got himself one more approved entry for the Threadless horror design challenge! Please click on the below image and rate that design a 5 – he only has a little time left to get votes so please click on over and do it now! I love Trav’s description of this…

  • Help a Friend Get a Threadless Tee Printed!

    Our very dear friend Trav Falligant of IBTrav Illustrations has entered some shirts in Threadless’ Horror design contest, and we would all really love some help getting him votes! You have to create a Threadless account to vote, but it’s well worth it. Please keep in mind Trav’s a starvin artist and the prize money for…

  • Show and Tell: Project Small Blog Rebuild

    So excited to share the latest web project I’ve been working on! Hearts and Laserbeams collaborated with Delilah Snell of The Road Less Traveled store in Santa Ana to redesign and rebuild her Project Small blog. Delilah put together a layout she liked in Photoshop, and I used a highly customizeable WordPress template to build the…

  • Choose Tee #3 for Choose Haiti!

    I did some pro bono work for Choose Haiti recently, and they’re getting ready to print some shirts to raise funds for relief efforts. They’re letting the public decide which design gets used, and I would love your support for my work! To vote for this tee, you have to be a Facebook member. First, click…

  • Show and Tell: Meringue Bake Shop Website Graphics

    I recently worked with Kristin Ausk of Orange County’s Meringue Bake Shop to design some art rearets for the rebuild of the company’s website. We created a vintage oven graphic to go with her existing cupcake icon and logo for the banner, a fun blue and pink stripe repeat to brighten up the background, and…

  • How to Convert a Color PDF to Black and White

    I clicked through Google Analytics last night and found out two things about how folks are finding my site via search engines. 1) Someone out there was looking for “laser schwing”. 2) Lots of hits come from folks looking for answers to computery questions. I’ll talk about my new quest to become the number 1…

  • Show and Tell – Electronic Billboard Ad

    Simple design I worked on for an electronic billboard ad being broadcast to the masses! Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend and got some good sale shopping in! (I know we scored some amazingness at Old Navy’s buy 2 get 1 free sale!)

  • Makin’ Me Blush…

      I got the nicest letter of recommendation from Laura Glover of Daydreamer LA about our time working together for CDC Apparel; you can click to read it here. Here’s just a few shirts we worked on together:

  • Debate Time: Crowdsourcing Graphic Design

    I saw an interesting retweet from Aileen Holmes this past weekend and it started a bit of a heated debate between Josh and I. I’d be interested in getting a discussion going to see what y’all think. Here’s the post Aileen retweeted from Debbie Millman: The US Dept of @Interior is crowdsourcing their logo. Please…

  • Show and Tell: Forever 21 Girls Tees

    Big thumbs up to my pal Aaryn West for alerting me that a slew of tees I designed while working at CDC Apparel are still in the little girls department at Forever 21! Take a look at the tees below, and click on over to Forever 21 Girls to purchase one for the young lady…

  • New Painting Commission!

    Just wanted to share this painting I did recently for Adam Lovinus! He was hoping to surprise his wife with a portrait of her with their new son for her birthday, and it was so much fun to paint. I think it’s cool that over the years, I’ve kept my cartoony style, but my paintings have gotten…

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