Designers Blog

Just a quick update to say that the voting for Showtime’s Dexter Tshirt design is over…it looks like I placed 2nd, just short by 3%  —Looks like I won’t get Comic-Con, but it was a great run and my design will still be sold at the Showtime Online Store along with being rewarded a prize pack, it was an amazing opportunity, and excellent for my resume….I will be posting links to the Store and images when i get more word on everything…

SUPER EXCITING NEWS!!!

I recently got word that one of my designs was selected as a TOP 5 Finalist for Showtime’s Dexter T-Shirt Contest.  First Place will be featured at Comic-Con 2010 —and I believe all finalist’s art will be sold in the Showtime store. Not only am I a huge fan of the show, but as a graphic designer, this is super exciting for me!   Voting is happening now.

The one that was chosen out of the 6 or so I submitted was the  “Miami Skyline Bloodslide”  TOP ROW/FAR RIGHT

Please go to Showtime’s Dexter site — and Vote!!

My Design is the Top Row Far Right--Miami Skyline Bloodslide

http://s.sho.com/DexArt

Well I have added pretty much the finishing touches on the all new Pet Portfolio site.  New prices and Size options to get that canvas or poster print you have been wanting. Once again I have turned to Media Lab and their  Sitegrinder Plug-In to help me build this new page. This is the 5th site built with Sitegrinder and I can’t tell you how much it has helped me get my website to look exactly how I want it to look without having to know much coding at all.

These Pet Portraits make excellent gifts for any pet lover or animal owner and best of all, they are fully customizable to your liking.

Each and every print is unique and printed on highest quality poster paper or on a beautiful stretched canvas.  Check out the new website at http://www.thepetportfolio.com and send the link to everybody you know that has a pet.

I have been working on a new business card design for the last week and decided on this one. Thought I would go with the rough grunge look for this Summer 09 design. In my design research and search for inspiration, I found so many awesome blogs and web pages with both creative and inspiring business card designs and thought I would share some… CreativeBits and Inspiredology are not only great blogs for designers, but both have some very unique card designs. I also found CardObserver,  a must see site for any designer or anybody looking for cool card inspiration and design.
Thanks to Uprinting for all the help, printing and great deals on the products.

One nice, sunny, summer day here in Austin, I was sitting on a patio, drinking margaritas and watching all the dogs pass me by. Over and over, I was seeing people jogging with their pets, driving with their pets, eating on patios with their pets and I realized at that point, how much these animals play a role in the everyday life of their owners.  I, myself, have a cat and a dog and have always treated them like members of the family.

As a graphic designer with an entrepreneurial  spirit, I figured I would try to design a site dedicated to pet owners and a place where they can immortalize their pets with a cool/funky/retro/urban style art print on canvas or posters.

I started The Pet Portfolio and have had quite a bit of success with it since it first started up.  I know there are alot of pet portrait sites on the net, but everybody’s style is so different, it just depends on the type of art you are looking for.

Please check out the site @ The Pet Portfolio