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.