Fall Quarter 2012

I have not been diligent about keeping this blog updated, but this quarter I produced some things that I am really proud of so I am going to post them!

Package, logo, product, branding a business card design for the fictional fragrance company 'Ol'factory'

Illustration of one of the 7 sins: Gluttony

Illustration of a creation myth: The water wagtail based on an Ainu creation myth.

Also this quarter but yet to be uploaded:  'Hey Marseilles' creative lettering design and 'How to kick ass and take names' instructional guide, so stay tuned!

First Projects of Spring

Mechanical Animal sculpture, made from a barbie bicycle, an old clock, and stock gears/clock faces from Michael's.

Stencil Print done with cut stencils and Speedball Ink done to accompany the mechanical deer project. The second one's background and color adjustments were done using Photoshop.

Conceptual posters advertising the Opera AIDA, which is about ancient Egypt.

Experimental Web Design, meant to focus on the design of fonts and type, rather than readability. Exercise done to learn CSS3.

Explore the rest of the webpages here.

Illustration Final

For my final project in Drawing and Design for Illustration, we were required to design 5 circus characters and then put them together in an 8"x22" illustration (above). For my circus I chose a comic book superheroine crime fighter theme.

The original design illustrations:

Juggler/Clown

Daredevil

Tiger

Sharpshooter

Animal Tamer/Tightrope Walker

Website Redesign for Eco-Sphere

For an assignment I had to redesign a website. I chose to give eco-sphere.com a makeover, because I love their products but their web design is a little 90's.

Redesign:

See the Working Website Here

There's still a few bugs I need to work out before I'm going to put it up on rlemker.com, but I think it's blog worthy at the moment.

Crab Shack Brand Identity Redesign

For an assignment I had to do a total redesign of the Crab Shack restaurant on Tybee island. I want to get proper photos of the prints taken before I put it up on my personal site, but here's the raw images for everything in the meantime:

Logo

They didn't have much of a cohesive logo before, but they did have this strange mascot character that was featured on T-shirts, billboards, and other commercial items.

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Coasters

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T-Shirts

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Hot Sauce Bottles

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Menu:

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Fall Quarter Illustrations!

I did a lot of work this quarter, here's some stuff from my Illustration classes.

Rocket! Sprites

These are long overdue, I made all of them as part of a project to keep myself entertained during summer. Robot pixels!