I’m having a hard time figuring out what “Mumbleypeg” actually is. The internet is giving me two definitions, but I think it’s safe to say it involves bored kids and knives.

I finished up this logo for Mumbleypeg Productions, a film production company in New York. It was my first attempt at creating a logotype entirely from scratch. It may not be too fancy or involved, but it’s unique.

I only made the necessary letters for the company name but really considered making the rest and fleshing out a full font. I wish there was a better software solution for the process, but there isn’t really anything for Windows other than FontLab, and that’s quite a pricey commitment.

Maybe some day.

I did an illustration of a man holding a parrot. I don’t know the man or the parrot but apparently they’re good buddies—or were at this moment anyway. I’ve never been to Reddit before but it’s top stories always show up on my favorite news aggregator, Popurls. I usually scan the headlines just out of curiosity, but most of the time it doesn’t look like anything too exciting.

Now this was a couple of weeks ago already so I forgot what the headline was, but it seemed captivating enough for me to want to check it out. Again, I forget the specifics but this person’s father was going through some rough patch and needed some cheering up. The submitter presented a picture of their father and his parrot, which was apparently the only time the bird had allowed someone to hold it, and asked for people to “Photoshop” the picture to help cheer up pops.

It was a pretty poor quality picture, I think it was taken from a phone, which meant that there really wasn’t too much magic that could be done in photoshop. Instead, I took it into illustrator and traced out a nice clean vector illustration.

It was a nice photo->vector learning experience for me and the the Reddit submitter seemed genuinely pleased. I think she(?) was thinking about turning it into a t-shirt.

Sorry about your dad’s awkward smile.

I just recently finished up the website for Seattle-based director extraordinaire Keith Rivers. He was a great guy to work with and he makes some really stellar videos, you should check them out.

We decided on a design that looks and feels pretty simple and straight-forward, but is actually loaded with quite a bit of content. I custom-built everything on top of the Wordpress platform, which means Keith is able to easily add information to the site without having to get dirty with the HTML.

Another recently completed logo design. This logo was created for Purple House Dirt, a cooking blog with a nice clean and modern website that showcases their culinary adventures.

I just finished up a new logo for Cindy Reiner Photography. It’s pretty vivid and colorful, styled in order to both compliment her current website as well as her business approach, which is aimed at younger families and their bubbly babies. I think it turned out pretty nice, it’s pretty bold and saturated, but it still means business.

It was time to change the blog. The first one was a foray into Drupal, which was a good learning experience, but I’ve been doing so much with Wordpress lately that it just made sense to make the change. The past design proved to be a little less personal than desired and ended up being a separate component instead of melding with the portfolio, which got a little confusing. Hopefully this helps keep me motivated to update.