Jimmer POY

March is here and that means so is my favorite time of the year March Madness. To celebrate we have a poster for Jimmer Fredette who should be national player of the year. If you know me you know I am a Huge KU fan. But there is no one like him on our team. Heck I have never seen another player like him. Ive never seen a coach believe in a player enough to allow him to pull up from 32' feet and let it rip. Just youtube him and you will see. If you dont already know.

Its been too long

Well hello again its nice to be back on here. A lot has happened since my last post. To start I got a real job being a designer. Even though my education was in illustration I got a job as a Product Designer at The Gerson Companies in Olathe, Ks. This interview process happened at the start of October and that explains why I haven't posted in a long time. Unfortunately I cannot put up any of my work from their for quite a while.

After that I got engaged to the most wonderful girl in the world who I love very much. We are getting married in September of 2012. Im sure there will be post about our wedding plans in the near future. I very excited to design invitations and do all the other good stuff that comes along with getting married.

For now though I started a home project. At this very moment there is a batch of beer brewing in my apartment. Its a pale ale / canadian style draft. (I picked this because hey if i mess this batch up, its no one I knows favorite style of beer) Plus I want to save my good ingredients for when I have more experience. Being the nerd/designer I am, I decided to make labels and packaging for this beer. To start I ordered your typical brown glass bottles. The website I purchased the bottles from also had bottle caps. I chose white bottle caps, only because off the top of my head I couldn't think of a beer with a white bottle cap. After choosing the bottles and caps I though a little bit about branding / a name for my "brewery" I settled on "White Cap" pretty simple and logical do to my purchase. As for the look, I wanted something that is not the typical beer label and this wont be sold in stores so I have no restrictions at all on the design or colors. I couldn't decide between more of a modern look or a retro one so I did both, well I did a retro and a less retro for now more are to come unless I decide I really like one of these. But here they are.

The lighter blue are my favorite at this point I think I like the square label as well.

Technology

So as of late I have been feeling like my computer has been failing me. I have an imac that is about three years old and I am also using photoshop and illustrator cs2. It just feels like an im using an antique, like trying to make a website on a typewriter. Its just the way it is though since apple replaces their products every six months. So if anyone feels like donating a brand new imac and cs5 or even cs4 to me I would really appreciate it.

On a side note this image was not originally made for this purpose. It was created as a test project for a company. I just reinterpreted it to how I was feeling today. Over all though the creation of the typewrite image was a lot of fun and I am very pleased with it.

Detail.