Logo design for a local podcast about coming up with awesome (and sometimes insane) business ideas to compile more money for another 6 pack of the good stuff. 

Ideas and inspiration were gone over with the client, initial sketches and preliminary design work were completed before finally being  reviewed with the client again to determine their favorite option.  The main logo included the full podcast title, while the secondary logos containing just the bottle, dollar sign, and mic imagery both with and without the "BMP" text.

Ultimately the podcast did not continue being recorded, and the logos were not implemented.

A yearly list I put together of my opinion on the top 25 albums of the year.  Purely a personal project that I thoroughly enjoy spending time on, that I post to Facebook to converse (and occasionally argue) with friends over.

I'll come up with the Top 25 albums, 15 honorable mentions, as well as a coruncopia of "best" awards, with a paragraph or two of my take.

Last but not least, it's not legit until you have a custom Spotify playlist with the best track from each album!

Summer of 2015 T-Shirt Design for Lost In A Name featuring sticks and picks, which represent the each of the instruments used by the 2 piece band, and Brewers themed color scheme.

Poster design for Lost In A Name's second annual "LIAN RIOT" show on May 2nd, 2015 at The Metal Grill in Cudahy, WI.

Limited run poster design for Five Finger Death Punch's Summerfest 2014 show in Milwaukee, WI.  Screen printed by the excellent folks at Catharsis Printworks.

Tasked with the project of creating a fresh packaging design for a Wisconsin product, I chose to go with perhaps the state's greatest product: beer.  Angry Minnow Brewing, located in Hayward, WI has a logo that is lackluster at best.  Besides being poorly executed, nothing about it screams angry (or alive for that matter).  The name left a ton of potential for a great design, and I wanted to make the most of it, both with the imagery and typography.

T-Shirt back designs for Macski's Highland Foods.  Each design featured a small Macski logo on the front chest.

As an alumni of Cudahy High School and it's excellent marching band program, it was an honor to design a logo celebrating both the 25th Cudahy Marching Band Invitational and 90 years of band at Cudahy High.

Traveling is one of my greatest passions and I decided to make it a focal point of a design series for an Advanced Typography course my senior year of college.  I focused on using imagery to create type, specifically the airport codes of American cities.  The images and colors used for each poster reflect both local flavor and tourist attractions specific to each city.  

While the poster series would be great for tourist purchases and for those looking to show their hometown pride, I ultimately saw these designs hanging as massive banners in airports greeting guests as they began their time in that city.

This apocalyptic themed illustration was done in the summer of 2012 with pen and ink, and was featured in the fall issue of Straylight, an art and literary magazine.

As a half semester Independent Study project in my junior year of college, I chose to work more on my favorite type of design: sports branding and logo design.  The North American Soccer League seemed like a prime target for creativity as it was a mid-sized league with two 2014 team additions, and the popularity of soccer in America was growing rapidly.  By the end of the course I had multiple logo and kit designs for 6 potential expansion teams in unexplored professional soccer markets.

Poster design for the Nate Weiss Quartet's 2013 show at the Highbury Pub in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood.  The symmetrical design highlights the 2 things the iconic pub is known for: soccer and live music.

Working with the Admissions Office at UW-Parkside provided me several great opportunities.  One of these was designing the programs and "save the date" cards for the Wisconsin Association for College Admission Counseling's annual conference.  Initially the theme was "Unveiling the Mysteries of Higher Education" but after seeing an inital sketch I did of the lock theme, the board decided to have "unveiled" changed to "unlocking."