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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 [...]

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 [...]

Design: The Baskerville Poster

April 25, 2004 Art

As part of my Graphic Design studies in MSUM, Prof. Allen Sheets included several font studies in his curriculum, which I found to be incredibly impacting to my type utilization and appreciation. One of those memorable type faces was Baskerville, the better Caslon!

Wikipedia tells us the following about the creator:

The Baskerville typeface is the result [...]

Design: Podary Logo & Stationary

June 5, 2003 Art

Here is one of my earlier identity works for my Graphic Design classes in Lebanon. The goal was to come up with a catchy name and complete identity package for a fancy gift shop.

The name was the easy part, podary in Russian means “to gift”, which sounds eloquent on its own. The design on the [...]

Design: Bella Luna Café Logo

May 25, 2003 Art

If you recall my earlier post on Courtside Café’s logo, you’ll agree that Bella Luna Café’s logo was due for an update.

The restaurant was designed and furnished in rustic colors and decorations, with an eclectic menu and diverse patrons. This combination of elements presented a fun challenge for the logo creation process, for which I [...]

Design: Inpress Logo & Stationary

March 16, 2003 Art

Inpress is a printing press company and paper distributor that needed a new and fresh logo, with an impressing look.

Using the basic black and magenta colors, the minimal design emphasised the name, along with the tagline and basic info.

I’m a fan of the KISS principle, keeping things simple and straightforward should be a life mantra!

Tools [...]

Design: The Bodoni Poster

February 1, 2003 Art

Class assignments are always fun and challenging for Graphic Designer majors, especially if you were lucky to be one of Prof. Allen Sheets‘ minions in MSUM. The early GD classes focused on study of colors, shapes, compositions and particularly font types, for which I studied and designed a display panel. The lucky font I ended [...]

Design: Courtside Café Logo

December 29, 2002 Art

During my first year in the States, I visited my cousin in Wichita, KS over the Christmas break, and it happened that he was expanding his successful restaurant franchise during that period. Bella Luna Café franchise was in negotiations with Genesis Health Clubs to incorporate its branch into the club’s several outlets. The eateries were to [...]

Design: My Minnesota Logo

December 27, 2002 Art

Here’s my personal tribute to Minnesota, the 10,000 lakes state that welcomed me in its land and college for years and which I will always love and remember for its people, nature and yes, crazy weather!

Tools used: Pencil, FreeHand

Design & Illustration: Poetry Book

December 10, 2002 Art

A very dear childhood friend of mine had a thing for words and poetry, which I encouraged and supported, pushing him towards writing while I critiqued and provided pointers. And for a couple of teenagers, this pursuit was nothing short of a major accomplishment!

Two years later, and 34 poems in, I offered to design the [...]

Design: Celebrity Logo

November 27, 2002 Art

Here’s another of my favorite class assignments from my days in MSUM. We were instructed to design a logo for a celebrity of our choice, and naturally I picked Salvador Dali, whom I’ve studied and researched for years.

Designing the logo was a relatively easy process. First, by picking the most distinguishable personal traits, the moustache. [...]

Design: Book Cover & Layout

May 15, 2002 Art

Breaking ground on the blog with a couple of my book layout and design works from my years in Kafaat University Institute.

A cover design for a French school book titled Frequence Jeunes, and a publicity booklet for Schneider Electric:

Tools used: FreeHand, Photoshop, QuarkXpress

Design: Festival of Joy Logo & Poster

December 19, 2001 Art

Posters are considered to be an artsy form of graphic design, worthy of art collections, museums and portfolios. That said, creating a well balanced and eye catching poster is a challenge, especially if you are doing your first one.

My first poster was a college assignment for a youth dance and music festival. First, we had [...]

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