Some clips of late...

I've been busy, you guys. Not only have I been working 40 hours a week at the studio, but I've also picked up another 15-hour-a-week job at a coffeeshop. It's a lot of work, but I've been handling it ... for now.

Anyway, I've also been churning out some pretty decent pages. And even a baby shower invitation (which will be in another post). This first one is for the Alexandria, La., paper. The story is about how the smaller schools in Louisiana are using sports to recruit more students (athletes and non-athletes) to their schools. So I got illustrative. Do ya get it? Huh? TOOLS? SPORTS?

The Sunday Town Talk: Sept. 29, 2013

The second one was kind of a big deal in Shreveport -- another Louisiana paper the studio handles. The water supplies near the city tested positive for a deadly brain-eating amoeba. Crazy, right? People died from this a few years back. So I made another graphic illustration. It was on the Newseum's Top Ten the next day and everything.

Shreveport Times: Oct. 10, 2013

Who's hungry?

I'm going to try and post one thing I've designed every week. Knowing me, it will probably last 3 weeks and then disappear. But I can dream, can't I?

Anyway, the clip I'd like to share is actually from last week. It's for the Shreveport Times. The centerpiece was about how all these chain restaurants keep popping up on a certain street in Shreveport. So instead of using the building shots provided by the paper, I got a little creative. With inspiration from Google Maps and vector logo help from BrandsoftheWorld.com, I created a more striking CP.

I learned things along the way, too! Like how to create feathered perspective shadows in Illustrator. It is done by adding a fill to an object (for example, the reddish pointer has a reddish fill, and the gray shadow fill, but it's the same shape), then skewing the gray fill to create a 3D effect. Pretty cool, eh?

Shreveport Times: August 25, 2013

Too bad the obnoxious ad at the bottom of the page takes all the spotlight....