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Chatter was doing a story about Cross Fit and a guy who is doing it out of his garage… hence the title. I decided that the grungy hard edged diamond-plate was a good fit and went with it. I really like my intro and typography. Read More
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
The Chatter "20 Under 40" issue… Every year Chatter hilightes 20 people in the Chattanooga community. I did the photography for the cover and inside feature. The idea that Eric Taylor (Art Director and Designer) had was to do this Brady Bunch meets Hollywood Squares... Read More
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
This designs rocks. I am very pleased with this one. Of course Matt Fields-Johnson's photography set the stage for the awesomeness that this feature is. I did do a bit of post work on Matt's photos to get the right look and feel I wanted... Read More
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
This is a story about local murals in Chattanooga. My favorite part of this feature was the opener. The photography by Mark Gilliland was awesome and the title treatment just worked. Read More
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Without the option to do photography for a story about the dangers that lurk while hiking in the SouthEast… I (we) decided to go the Illustration route. We hired Matt McClane to do some illustrations based on the art direction that I had... Read More
Monday, March 19th, 2012
Cover shot for April edition of Get Out Magazine done in studio. The feature story was about unusual marathon style running races. The cover eludes to one of them as a nudist run. Instead of having our models wear fig leafs, we opted for the... Read More
Friday, March 16th, 2012
This was my first of many to come Feature editorial designs for Get Out Chattanooga Magazine. This was actually my very first feature at all for Target Publishing. I honestly had no idea what I was doing, but it seemed to turn out alright and... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This was my first of many to come Feature editorial designs for Chatter Magazine. The opening photo was taken by me, the rest of the photos were contributed. The overall tone of the design was taken from how I created the opener. I wanted this... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Cover photo and editorial shots for March edition Chatter Magazine. My only instructions for this project was "no flash" and to just use available light. High ISO and a bit of post production and these shots came out excellent. These are just a handful of... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Editorial in March 2012 Chatter Magazine for the upcoming allergy season. We had gotten Ellie the Marketing intern to be our damsel in distress. I knew that the headline was going to be over her head and was going for they "B" Movie look. We... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
I created a 20 page book for the TFP's Marketing and Sales Departments to bring awareness to potential vendors and sponsors of the large events and expos that the TFP holds Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Another TFP Holiday ad. This one I went all Martha Stewart on and made this ornament with a styrofoam ball, newspaper and Modge Podge. Photographed over red seep and in post added some additional graphical elements. I really did like this one… even though it... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This year the Times Free Press took home a bunch of awards from the Tennessee Press Association (TPA). We thought it was a good idea to tout our success and create a couple of ads (to difficult to get everybody in one shot). The... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is the 2nd poster design for Pardee’s “Hike to Health” 2011 campaign. I have also posted the Pardee Hospital Web Banner that was on the homepage of their site. The hike was held at Chimney Roack State Park, where last year’s Fall HTH was... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is the web banner that I created to promote the “Hike to Health” event for Pardee Hospital at Chimney Rock. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
I cannot believe I almost did not include this campaign onto my website! So… I was challenged with creating a new print campaign for local Beltone advertising. This campaign won some silver ADDYs.
The Concept:
What is it like to not know exactly what someone is saying... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is actually an old ad (February 2011) that I forgot about… but definitely worthy of going in my design blog. This ad was different from the rest of the campaign which was photo heavy and colorful. I love using typography as design and it... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is a logo very different that the kind of logos I normally do… It’s all Raster. There was no way I could achieve the look I was going for in a vector format. The logo will be used for a game. I am also... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Here is this year’s Independence Day ad for the Times Free Press. It ran as a full page in the newspaper at 10.5″ x 21.5″.
The entire project was built in Photoshop and has my signature antiqued paper background. The shapes were built in illustrator as... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Here is a 8′x3′ event banner printed on outdoor vinyl. The Banner is for the Land Rover club of CROC (Carolina Rover Owners Club). Every year they host a large rally and was in need of a new event banner. This project is laid out... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
The Times Free Press shoots a lot of photos as you can imagine. There are staff and freelance photographers at all sorts of events around the Chattanooga area. The TFP has a dedicated section of the website to view/download/buy photos from these various events. This... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is the 1st poster design for Pardee’s “Hike to Health” 2011 campaign (3rd I’ve done for them). The hike was held at “The Pink Beds” in the Pisgah National Forest. The illustration shows the trails and wood bridge that runs through the pink rhododendron... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is the web banner that I created to promote the “Hike to Health” event for Pardee Hospital at Pink Beds. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
At the TFP, I created a huge campaign for the Tennessee Press Association (TPA). It involved print ads, outdoor billboards and digital ads. The campaign was to run in all newspapers throughout Tennessee. The campaign was to bring awareness to the value of news; be... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is the logo that was chosen and 3 ideas of business card layouts. One 2-sided and two single sided options. The client ended up going with the non-bleed, single-sided version on the right. The other real nice thing about this logo is the fact... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Here are 4 more submissions that I presented to Summit Insurance for their identity. I still went with the whole mountain theme. Google summit and look at all the mountain themed logos… It’s almost ridiculous. I was fairly partial to the 3rd one down. The... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
A new local insurance agency commisioned me to do a logo design for their business. I was given some pretty concise direction. The client asked for Silver or metallic, bold, contemporary on black background with the “M”s forming mountains. I was very proud that I... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
These 2 ads are for a new program that the Times Free Press is offering to job seekers and employers. I decided to go the retro look with an all illustration ad. The illustrations are done in Adobe Illustrator. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
These 2 ads are concepts for a new book promoting workplaces around Chattanooga. The 2 concepts above are for the logistics industry… yea, I had to look it up too ;) Lot’s of Photoshoping with these two concepts, but I am pleased with how they... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is an image ad for one of the local La-Z-Boy galleries in Chattanooga. It is a magazine ad going into “Chattanooga Now”. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Here is this year’s house ad for the Times Free Press. It ran as a full page at 10.5″ x 21.5″.
The entire project was built in Photoshop and incorporated some vector elements. I used actual newspaper (digital files) pages and an antiqued paper background. The... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Here is a simple self promo image ad for the Times Free Press for Thanksgiving. Ad ran in the newspaper at 10.5″ x 21.5″.
Background of ad is several photos layered in Photoshop. Typography is done in Illustrator, then all composed in InDesign. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
These are the concepts that were presented for the Clip logo Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is the web banner that I created to promote the “Hike to Health” event for Pardee Hospital. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is the 2nd poster design for Pardee’s “Hike to Health”. The hike was held at Chimney Rock Park and the illustration shows the waterfall on the Hickory Nut Falls Trail. This is all hand drawn in Illustrator and then brought to Photoshop for color... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Here is an image ad I did for a local outdoor store. I had pretty much total creative freedom for layout and overall design. The only direction given was to use their logo and feature teh Luminox watch and tehn I was given a list... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is a very small web banner for Pardee Hospital on the BlueRidgeNow news web site. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is a screen shot the Pardee Hospital home page. I took elements of the poster to create a splash page graphic for them. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is another poster design I did for Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The poster is for a women’s event. The entire poster was created in vector and brought to photoshop for some minor distressing.
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Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This logo is for the Chattanooga Visitor’s Bureau. It is for a monthly publication showcasing the goings on in Chattanooga. It is a one color design intended for color change each month depending on the color palette for the issue as well as the featured... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Yep, Betty White is coming to Chattanooga and headlining at the Life Expo. This is a 15′ x 28′ banner on the Chattanooga Times Free Press building. I also did 2 Billboards and a host of other collateral for the event. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Here is a house ad that I did for CTFP. The goal was to create a vintage styled newspaper ad that may have been run in the 40′s I nearly despise “clip art”, but in this case it worked and worked well. The ad ran... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Life Expo is a convention for… basically the baby boomers. Here are some logo concepts that I came up with. Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
These are 3 ad concepts I had done for a finer reastaurant in Monteagle TN. The High Point Restaurant.t has a pretty cool story actually. I am pretty happy with all 3 designs and the HP guys seemed to like the middle concept... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Believe it or not, there is a local version of Dancing with the stars. However, the stars are local personalities like news anchors and doctors. Nonetheless, I was asked to do some large format art. The 2 pieces shown above were to be placed on... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
This is a series of posters for the fitness facility at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
I was instructed that there would be no branding and that the 5 posters be different form each other. That was about all the direction I was given.
Not a whole... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Cover for FIFA program guide in Chattanooga. This concept was not chosen to move forward, but I liked it so much that I thought it was worthy of recognition. I did not do any real illustration for this; I mostly used sock elements and a... Read More
Sunday, March 11th, 2012