WEEK 1

EKTOKIDS BANNER
Hand drawn elements and type: manipulated and composed in Photoshop

WOMP LOGO/BANNER #1
Elements that are hand drawn or created in Illustrator: layered, manipulated, and composed in Photoshop

WOMP LOGO/BANNER #2
A variation of the previous piece. The type was hand fabricated in Illustrator and combined with the other elements by layering, manipulating, and composing in Photoshop

THREE... RESTAURANT BANNER
Photo manipulation and type done in Photoshop

THREE... RESTAURANT PATTERN
A design created in Illustration. Color manipulation and pattern creation done in Photoshop

FRUITSHAKES WITH ATTITUDE
The following illustrations were created in Illustrator for a family owned smoothie stand in downtown Baltimore, MD. All type was hand created in Illustrator.

FRUITSHAKES WITH ATTITUDE LOGO

FRUITSHAKES WITH ATTITUDE SIGN

FRUITSHAKES WITH ATTITUDE STICKER

INKIN' IT - COCK AND BULL PARTY
An illustration whose components were all hand drawn with ink on paper. The ink drawings were scanned in, color manipulated, layered, and composed in Photoshop.

WEEK 2

ONTHECLOUDS ICON PKG
Scanned in drawings cleaned up and customized in Photoshop. Icons will be available for download, soon!

SUNSET BACKGROUND
A background image made from images manipulated and composed in Photoshop.

WEEK 3

HUMANE SOCIETY OF CALVERT CO., MD
Fully functioning interactive web design concept intended to eventually be proposed to the local non-profit organization. Images were altered, as needed, in Photoshop and the entire site was created in Flash, with good use of Actionscript 3.0.

The prototype is available for viewing here

CHARLEE BEAR DOG TREATS
A basic redesign for Charlee Bear dog treats. All images were created or manipulated in Photoshop and the rest of the website was built in Dreamweaver. PHP and MySQL were utilized.

The prototype is available for viewing here

WEEK 4

THE FOLLOWING PIECES ..
are a few from the work being designed for a complete redesign of the website of a small web design business, JGWD (Jerzy Gangi Web Design).

404 ERROR PAGE ILLUSTRATION/DESIGN
A first time attempt at conceptualizing and illustrating an appealing and comedic situation to be used for JGWD’s 404 error page. The graphics at the bottom are elements of the redesign that were constructed in Photoshop, only to be de-constructed in Photoshop for this purpose.

LOCAL NAVIGATION ICONS (final phase)
A few local navigation buttons to be presented throughout the entire website. the key to these attractive icons is to encourage users to continue soaking in more information and hopefully schedule an appointment for a free consultation. The icons take users to the most important and informative pages of the website.
tools - photoshop

LOCAL NAVIGATION ICONS (final phase)
Local navigation buttons, again, for JGWD, but with a more unique approach in its style and presentation. The background image is a portion of the header that this icon will sit on and is shown to demonstrate the ‘hol(e)y’ quality of some of the text.

LOCAL NAVIGATION ICONS (first phase)
One of the first few icons that were designed.

BILLBOARD ILLUSTRATION
To add a touch of humor to their business, a billboard featuring their name was asked to be created to accompany the information on the 6th stage process page - "Promote & Maintain". The stock image of a real life billboard (free to use personally and commercially) was used to build upon. Using Photoshop, the company logo, text, and lighting were created and manipulated to be presented accurately in the billboard's empty space.

'CHOOSE FROM 3 DESIGNS'
A simple graphic image, like the billboard illustration, created to accompany the contents of their 2nd Stage Process page, "Design a Look". Some portions of the image were created in Illustrator. The composing and polishing were done in Photoshop.

'ANIMATED BANNER FOR'
A simple animated banner created for self promotion and personal use.

'WALLPAPER'
A screencapture of a video was heavily manipulated in Photoshop. This image was then used as a background image. Detail