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Utah Aids Foundation Gala Invite

I was super excited when Utah Aids Foundation contacted me to help them create an invite for their yearly gala. 

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The theme for the event was art deco. So of course I went all out in that style.

 

I started by researching the art deco style and found so many fun geometric pattern ideas. I sketched out some concepts on paper and then I got busy in Illustrator creating various geometric shapes to frame the invite.

 

There was a locomotive aspect to the creative brief so I illustrated an old steam locomotive and had that as the central object in the invite.

 

Finally I wanted some colors to capture that era and we landed on a gold color with a dark blue background. 

Preservation Utah: Donut Dash

I had the chance to work with Preservation Utah

over the years on various design projects. 

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My favorite project was the Donut Dash 5K run that took place at

Heritage Park in Salt Lake City.

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The race had tables set up with donuts on them, where runners

would run and eat donuts along the way! So much fun.

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So I sketched some initial logo concepts and came up with a running

donut of course! I had the donut jumping over a city to represent

the urban environment for this race. 

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Since Preservation Utah enjoys a more retro feel and look, I went with

a classic 2-color palette with yellow represnting the time of the year ( summer! ).

TEDx Salt Lake City

In 2017 I had the crazy opportunity to do a TEDx Salt Lake City talk. The talk was about the relationship between art and science.

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A couple years ago I decided to join back up with the local TEDx team and I am now their graphic designer. 

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Below are a mix of the last couple of years of branding for the event. 

Toasters

Before becoming a graphic designer, I was an audio engineer. I was doing sound at a club right next door to a new sandwich place at the time called Toasters.

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They have the best sandwiches! I went in there so much I became friends with the owners. I was studying graphic design at Salt Lake Community College at the time and when I told them they asked me to create their menus. 

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They liked more of a "real" feel to their menus and one way we created that look was to give the menu lots of fun textures. I created brushes in Photoshop from random images and then drew the food elements in Illustrator.

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Makes me hungry every time I see these!

Hi! I am a designer, animator

& teacher from Salt Lake City!

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