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Redesign This: CornerStone Bank Logo

March 2, 2010 Art

This week I take on CornerStone Bank, a North Dakota-based bank with a swirly logo, which is trying too hard to shave the edges off its name and be more trendy. Too much is the keyword here.

The original design seen to the right suffers from the spiral syndrome along with its nearest cousin the Hilton [...]

Design: Just Code It.

February 1, 2010 Art

A quick motivational poster design for my fellow programmers and coders: Just Code it!

2010: New Year’s Dawn

January 1, 2010 Art

In the dawn of this year, may you conquer and prosper!

Design: Contract Logos

November 28, 2009 Art

I’ve been doing job interviews in Fargo/Moorhead lately and I’ve decided to pull out some of my recent contracted logo projects and share them online. Stay tuned! :)

Tools used: Freehand & Photoshop

Design: Campus Logo Projects

November 17, 2009 Art

Last week I dug up some of my early extra-curricular projects and logos that I’ve worked on from my days at Minnesota State University Moorhead. Here’s a selection of them:

Tools used: Freehand & Photoshop

Design: Typographic World Map

August 22, 2009 Art

Here’s another cool project from my Design vaults: the typographic world map!

I started this project initially in late 2002, with the intentions to mark each world nation with its national flag, few iterations later and I thought “wouldn’t it be cool to have their actual names displayed instead?”

Bingo! I spent a couple of weeks working [...]

Sketch: College Friends

August 18, 2009 Art

College years are certainly some of the best I’ve ever had, and not the least for all the wonderful people and friends I met there.

I have a habit of drawing those who touched my life in one way or another in a little black sketch book, as evident here and there. Below are some of [...]

Photography: Aqua Lilies

June 30, 2009 Art

I’ve been experimenting with artificial HDR effects lately, combining regular photos with effect layers in Photoshop, and here are a couple of samples using our Aqua Lilies as a test subject:

Tools: Kodak DX6490, Photoshop

Photography: Birdy

June 19, 2009 Art

Sometimes when the conditions are just right, and the subject matter, lighting conditions and setting align, you can get a perfect shot. Here’s a couple lucky shots of a bird that suddenly landed on our balcony for a few minutes, and I managed to snap it through the door frame and screen.

The dark and light [...]

Design: FrontierTELCO

October 28, 2008 Art

Here’s one of my latest commissions for designing a complete logo and stationary package for a client that specializes in online phone and Internet services. The initial goal was to design the main logo for the main service, titled frontierTELCO, then modify it to accommodate PBO and ISP services. After several sketches, I decide to [...]

Design: Veracity Corporate Logos

May 13, 2008 Art

When Veracity Credit decided to update its Brokers division, I was commissioned through The Chiron Group to reconstruct their logo and create a new one for this particular venture.

One thing that I love, is salvaging old logos from low quality, pixelated GIF files! There is a certain satisfaction gained from recreating boxy shapes into vectors, [...]

Design: AventureUSA Logo

May 1, 2008 Art

Designing logos can be an extreme sport at times, especially when your client is another designer and/or artist. Case in point: my work on Aventure USA, a travel agency for French tourists visiting the USA.

The initial design process was very straightforward, create a simple, elegant graphic within the company name, without overly patronizing the overall [...]

Caricature: Tribute to Naji al-Ali

August 29, 2007 Art

My interest in the art of caricatures was sparked in the early 90s when I noticed this interesting little scrawny cartoon guy in an old al-Safeer newspaper. It was Palestinian artist Naji al-Ali’s daily caricature depicting the ravages of the Lebanese war with his signature Handala character. That drawing with its simple lines and minimalist [...]

Illustration: Lebanation

August 11, 2006 Art

If you’ve ever heard of Lebanon, chances are you’re familiar with this country’s contentious history. To describe Lebanon in few words, I would say it’s a boiling cauldron of sour soup with sweet bits floating all over it. There is plenty of good here and there, but it’s all surrounded by hate, bigotry, vengeance and [...]

Caricature: Middle East Blues

March 18, 2006 Art

2006 was a tough year, on personal and global level, notwithstanding the Israel-Hezbollah War and the resulting carnage and destruction, and in these dark times I did several caricature drawings releasing my feelings towards the Middle-East and the never-ending conflicts there.

Here are six of those focusing on the Iraqi invasion and its infighting, Gaza blockade, [...]

Illustration: Childhood Inspiration

November 10, 2004 Art

It’s quite strange where artistic inspiration emanates from, and in my case it is a tiny charcoal portrait of my young mother, which was drawn somewhere in the Soviet Union when she was a teenager.

This little discarded portrait laid in our family albums for decades untouched, until one random day, I picked it up and [...]

Ceramic: “Trimily”

August 10, 2004 Art

“Trimily” is a ceramic set created for my Clay Principles class in MSUM, representing the family as a euphemism. The pieces were molded with a heavy base and light leaning tops, and designed with a concave shape within two of the vases to compliment the largest vase.

The tri-set can be arranged in various configurations and [...]

Ceramic: “Orrific Pod”

July 12, 2004 Art

Molding and forming clay into shapes is a Godly experience. Blasphemy you say? Well let me explain:

This amazing process combines the childish fun of dipping your hands into dirt and the spiritual process of creation. With each fold and touch, you are giving that piece of indiscernible filth a whiff of life, and with a final [...]

Ceramic: Plates Collection

July 9, 2004 Art

Presenting a selection of plates from my work in MSUM’s Pottery classes.

The plates were thrown over a period of two weeks, then colored and baked within another. The plates are titled as follows:

“Digital Shell”: A take on traditional Venetian Majolica painted dishes with high-temperature poly-chromes. “Homeland”: Heavy dark colored [...]

Ceramic: Bowls Collection

June 1, 2004 Art

Presenting a selection of bowls from my work in MSUM’s Pottery classes.

Th particular set of bowls was influenced by the Japanese geometric throwing style, with conservative slip of grays and blacks. Each bowl was painted with specific dots, symbols and encryption.

The bowls are titled as follows:

“War” “Morse” “Morse [...]

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