Behance Network

For those of you who don't know what Behance Network is, it is a social network site for creative the exhibition of creative portfolios, projects, and collaborations. It allows you to set up a portfolio and showcase your work for free (pretty cool). Behance is becoming more and more popular and allegedly has millions of viewers monthly (including talent scouts for top brands). Right now Behance is an invitation-only based website. A few days ago I received an invitation to set up a portfolio site with them, which I intend to take advantage of. Hopefully soon everyone will be able to see my stuff on Behance.

We Belong Together! Shirt Design

We belong Together! I have been wanting to do a t-shirt with a “message” for some time and this is what I came up with. I know that another Eco shirt might be more of the same right now, but this is my first eco based design so I hope it is still enjoyable. I wanted it to feel like an animal kingdom chart with an array of different animals (with humans included) and have a written message that indicates that we are all meant to live together, harmoniously. The more that the human race grows, the more that we have to expand and the more that we expand, the more that we encroach on the territories of animals. I know that this is inevitable, but I think that we should pursue new ways to share our space with animals and harmonize instead of simply driving them out.

This shirt is available on my RedBubble storefront in several color variations.

Japanese Mon Shirt Series

This is a new set of shirts that I created based on Japanese Mon (Family Crests). A few are recreations of old family crests from Japan, but most are my own designs based off of similar themes used in traditional Mon. All of these shirts are available at my RedBubble store front.

Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Here are a a few of the promised shots from the honeymoon, which we spent just outside of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee. The park is the most visited park in the United States.

Featured in Blanket Magazine

My submission for the newest issue of Blanket Magazine (The Portrait Issue) was picked up and featured with a lot of other photographs and designs. Blanket is a great conduit for exhibiting work (for the outgoing artist) and drawing inspiration (for the passive art connoisseur). The picture is actually a reflection of my wife that I captured off the glass of our hotel during a trip to Mexico.

The Tate Creative - Logo Design

Here are some final mock-ups for the identity designs I created for the Australian designer Tate.

Truth

New shirt design that I just got posted today; Truth. Based on my composite style of design the shirt depicts some different elements and the word Truth. Hope you enjoy.

Revolution featured on Little Wonders Blog

I was recently contacted by Damien Mason who asked for permission to post one of my works, Revolution, on a blog he hosts called Little Wonders. Little Wonders is a compilation of inspirational works of the highest caliber found on RedBubble. I very graciously accepted and a post for my print has been made. Damien Mason is a very talented illustrator and I would recommend anyone to check out his work via the link listed above.

Mask of Terror

New shirt design available for sale at the DesignbySolo Shop. Modeled after an iron Ressi Men style mempo (Japanese Samurai battle mask). The mask design is from the Momoyama period in Japan and was employed by the samurai to inflict debilitating fear upon enemies whom they faced in close combat.
The design is off-white on white to simulate the face emerging from the mist or fog.

Font Design

This is a simple font design that I drew up on paper some time ago. The font is designed with a modern, san-serif look based on the Cyrillic alphabet, which consists of 33 characters. This design was never turned into a usable font on the computer.

Website Debug

As you probably know, I recently launched my new website. The design is completely HTML based, something that I am new to (my previous sites were Flash based) and there were a few bugs that showed up across different browsers/resolutions. I think I have the majority of these issues debugged and I will be able to sleep more peacefully. If you run across any bugs, please report them on this blog or via email. Thanks for your continued support.

Heredity and Training.

New print design, Heredity and Training. The basis for the typography is a partial quote from Mark Twain's, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court; quoted as, "We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training." The photography was taken downtown Cincinnati.

Distortion Experiment 1

Wanted to do a little bit of experimentation on photo manipulation/distortion. This is pretty basic, but I think the result is interesting.

Joshua & Proverbs in Print

Here is some photos of the printed works, Joshua & Proverbs. Thought you might want to see. Enjoy.

7M3 Poster

I made this just for fun. I have been looking over a lot of musical event posters lately (mainly at gigposters.com) and I was inspired to try my hand at the style. Seven Mary Three was one of my favorite bands several years ago (their American Standard album is still one of the best in its genre) and I wanted to feature them on the poster. Let me know what you think.

Bridge

An overexposed photo I took of one of the bridges going from Newport to Cincinnati this evening. The treatment is up for interpretation.

New Prints -- Proverbs & Joshua

Here are a couple of new prints that I just finished working on (I will be posting them on the website soon). These posters are inspired by quotes from the Bible. These are a few quotes that stood out to me and I wanted to present them in a manner in which you probably are not accustomed to. Both quotes are presented in a low contrast colour layout which emphasizes the fact that they have to be truly look at and examined to absorb the meaning behind them (you can't take everything in at a glance).

Downtown

Finally, I have the new site up and running (smoothly, I hope) and I have time to post some of my work again. I hope to be able to make regular posts once again on this blog, so stay tuned in. Here are some pictures I took of downtown Cincinnati. These were taken with my Canon 350D.

New Website

The new website relies solely on HTML and does not require any Flash player add-on's for viewing. This means that the DESIGNBYSOLO website will be more accessible to non-conventional web browsers (ie. ipod, cellular phones, nintendo wii, etc.) Hope this is helpful for anyone who has had trouble viewing my website in the past.

New Website Live

Just finished getting my new website online... It was quite a chore. The new design is much more expansive than previous versions while it maintains an ease of navigation. Please, check it out and let me hear your thoughts on the new design. Hopefully you will enjoy.