A L T E R M A N I A

Key aspects of design:

• My dad’s favorite color is deep purple. Deep purple didn’t look good as a background color, so instead I made the background a light purple gradient.
• My dad’s favorite shape is the Mobius strip, so I added a mobius strip to the background too.
• My dad likes martinis, so I named the custom font I created in Illustrator “Martini” as per my mom’s suggestion.

I made this Mobius strip in Illustrator by outlining a picture of a Mobius strip with the Pen Tool, and then creating blends between the lines.

This is the original type I created using the Pen Tool and blending in Illustrator. After I put the letters together, I noticed that they formed a “T,” so I was thinking of using the group of letters to be the “T” in “Love, Tyler.” In the end, I thought that the other font I made was cleaner and nicer.

A monster face I made in Illustrator with the Pen Tool and blending. Never ended up using it. Maybe in the future.

Came out looking a lot more ominous than I’d intended. Luckly she loved it, but then again, if I gave her scribbles on a piece of paper, she would say she loves that too. Shapes and type made in Illustrator, textures and shading done in Photoshop.

Inspired by the movie, Helvetica.

Created by first desaturating and darkening pictures of ink in water and smoke. Then I rotated/distorted/masked the images and threw them together until they formed a humanoid figure.

Created by first desaturating and darkening pictures of ink in water and smoke. Then I rotated/distorted/masked the images and threw them together until they formed a humanoid figure. The type was created by blurring text, adding a wave filter, setting the blend mode to color burn, overlaying color-burning clouds, inversing the image, making it black and white, and finally using a smoke brush to give it a wispy look. Last but not least, I added a gradient to the whole thing.

Outlined a businessman with the pen tool.

Creative brain-spew. Sketches painted with Illustrator.

Experimenting with logos. And birthday cards.

Sketch vectorized in illustrator. Don’t ask questions.

Messing with screened shadows, funky brushes, and – of course – barfing monsters.