Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator designs, Aftereffects for motion graphics, web development and laser cutting
Professional and Artist Headshot Photography
Photography
Event Photography and Video Services
Crystal Lotus Studios
Design Services
| Branding | Design | Story Telling | Content |
The foundation of a successful brand starts with digital assets, the tools that are needed to create products, market, and tell the story of your brand. This is represented through through a visual language via color, form and placement.
As a freelance artist, my goal is to be the hypothetical paint brush, that illustrates you mental vision into these digital assets that will communicate to your viewers in the marketplace.
Below you can see a variety of applications of design, utilizing digital assets I created using the Adobe creative cloud.
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Motion Graphics
Motion graphics play a key role in live entertainment, or spicing up a video to engage your viewers in a hypnotic flow of pixels and color.
With the power of Illustrator, Photoshop, Premire pro and After effects, I create tantalizing designs that can compliment your music, marketing, or to overlay on a shiny new video to boost your content!
Product Design
EDM Chicago Festival Hat Pin
Evol chicago is an EDM brand, focused on vending as a booth at Major festivals and music events.
This particular project was a collaboration between Evol Chicago, an Illustrator that goes by the psuedo name "Carnivorous FX", and myself.
My role on this team was to create an effective vector, that can be utilized as a production file to create festival hat pins.
This design was used as a cast to form metal in the shape of the elephant, and then filled with soft enamel utilizing the colors I specified on the production files.
Festival hat pins are an experimental market, with a cult following. The more artistic the better the sales!
Presented on an ecommerce marketplace
Though out the year on my social media, I release behind the scenes videos of how I create the projects I'm working on!
You can find me on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube!
Production Files
How it was made!
Creative Vector Design
The Concept
DJ MAHL Z is an Iowa house music artist, that was on the hunt for a new Logo, and some shirts to be made with the new look!
Together we dove into his mind and discovered Bee's were something he strongly resonated with. As our inspiration, we experimented with a variety of designs and landed on this festival-esk shirt!
Production Files
Studio Photography
Utilizing Adobe Illustrator, I was able to create a production file for these shirt to be sublimated into reality!
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After creating the logo, invisioning the concept, and printing onto clothing, the next natural step was to photograph the final product!
Motion Graphic
Now that we had the physical product out of the way, we began to focus on the digital media assets, to match the look and feel of the new style!
As a music producer Mahl Z Created a song, and I utilized digital assets along with orignial content to create motion graphic to fulfill the role as social media content, along side doubling as content for festival projection screens while he was djing on stage.
Crystal Lotus Studios Merch Design
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Crystal Lotus Studios Hard Enamel Pin Design
Event Logos, Flyers and Social Media assets
Upon my harddrives lives a vast collection of artworks made to serve as flyers, advertisements, banners, and promotional tools for Local Chicago shows and brands.
My next endeavor is to expand this mindset into motion graphics. Allowing these art works to live and breathe in the digital world.
Album Art
Portals
Portals will be a collection of stories from other dimensions, told through the eye of cinematography in collision with graphic design to transform fantasy into digital reality.
This is a series in growth, is on a mission to thrive in the realm of escapism.
"Worlds apart" is the first image in this collection, captured in the iconic alley ways of the loop in downtown Chicago!
