Team Surge is a local Men’s League hockey team currently playing in the New England Senior Hockey League. They have been around now for almost twenty-five years and had contacted me to create a website for them to celebrate the tremendous occasion.
After consulting with them and going through examples of other sites, I built this site to personify what they stand for and how each person brings his own personality to the team. A simple home page to get all the facts and stats they need quickly with the various other pages complimenting it through player bio pages, a history page, and photo gallery from the various events and parties they have been a part of throughout the years.
All this was done through the help of Muse for layout and some custom CSS to make everything flow smoothly. The full site can be found at surgehockey.com.
The whole concept behind Scuf Gaming is their consistency to produce high quality video game controllers. These controllers can be customized in every aspect from the circuitry and button mapping, to the design on the shell on the controller. They have become so popular that almost every professional video game player or internet gaming personality uses their controllers.
That is what I decided to focus my slogan and advertisements around. The slogan, “Play like A Pro” was born from that. I wanted to show case off why someone needs this controller and using the professional gamers’ and teams’ controllers as the center piece, it pulls the viewer in for more information.
For the color scheme, I wanted to stick with black and white with a little grey as an accent. For the type, I wanted something bold that would draw the viewer’s eyes in and also had a smooth movement throughout.
Every Year, the New England Sports Network and the Boston Red Sox hold a family weekend for fans to attend and meet various players and on air talents. I was tasked with creating Talents Cards for the various talents to give and sign for fans. Each card was designed to activate the entire space while guiding the holder’s eyes around the card from the top with the NESN logo to the talent’s picture to the show or team that work for. I tried to keep the look as close to the new NESN look as much as possible while given creative freedom to bring each card to life.
On top of making the talent cards, I was task with creating the broadcast access badges for the NESN crew to be able to walk freely around the event. With the basic info of “Broadcast Access”, the date and where it was taking place, I was given complete freedom to get creative. I used the Winter Weekend logo as the primary focus of the badge with the background given a frost look to it. I used a simple, bold typeface to display the information needed and a typeface that coincides with the NESN guidelines.
StoveGT is a small video game streamer on the platform Twitch.TV. He started out streaming World of Warcraft and after talking to him, I built an entire stream brand from a logo to his stream overlays, to his information panels on the site. He wanted his look to be centered around the character he played on World of Warcraft, which was a Tauren or bull. From there I used the image of a bull head to configure his entire setup from the back drop pattern to the panels. He wanted to keep everything two colors, which were neon green and black as they stood out on the Twitch.TV site. As for the typography, StoveGT wanted something bold, but flowed into each other. I used the Modern Machine type as it appeared. to flow smoothly into each character .
His entire setup can be found at Twitch.tv/stovegt.
Axis was the theme for the Typographics 2016 conference in NYC. We were tasked with highlighting each day’s events and various keynote talkers. I decided to emphasize the presentation given by Dan Rhatigan for this main speaker at the conference for his speech on white space and how less can be more when it comes to designing.
I pulled from that speech to design the itinerary around, using white space and simple lines to dictate where the viewer’s eye are looking. I chose to work with shades of blue to keep the piece light and simplistic. The diagonal Lines create a linear movement that pulls the viewer’s eye form page to page without taking away from the information provided. The type also has a flow to it with the use of serifs in the body copy while the titles call out to the reader to read there next.
I was contracted by Surge to create graphics for their various social media platforms which included game day posts, post game updates, birthday graphics, and Announcement for their Charity Events on Instagram and Facebook. I would discuss with the Team’s captain each season to create a template that would be the central focus for the season. Each season the graphics varied from a simple bar with bold type to full animated posts through after effects. The Color scheme was predetermined to stay consistent with the team’s colors and style.
More examples of the work can be found on their Instagram page neshlsurge.
This project was created to bring life into a very type heavy annual report such as the Peace Corp’s. I wanted to pull the most important information for the fat of the report and simplify it down to where the average person could decipher and comprehend what he or she is reading.
Each section was designed to be completely unique from the other section. They color scheme was what would tie everything together.
The premise of this project was to showcase the natural beauty of the Arboretum. I wanted to use strong photography of the park itself to pull the reader in while giving him or her a factual overview what what actually goes on in this beautiful full of scientific research and discovery.
The purpose behind this was to dive into detail about every aspect of a typeface including, how it was created, its characteristics and features, its various forms in the alphabet and its glyphs. I went with and earthier tone in colors with hues of brown because the typeface looks handwritten and gave an impression that it could be from an older time such as the revolutionary period, even though it came to be in 2003. I used the alphabet and symbols and a background texture to give the foreground a little depth while showing off all the features on the typeface. The various spreads cover different aspects of what make the typeface so unique and versatile in everything it is used for.
The poster is a summary of what the booklet goes into deep detail on for the every day passerby that would take a quick glance as if it were on the street.