arm designs

some shots from the weekend. i tried as hard as possible not to hipster-ify them. tadaaaa

logo concept for anz photography & video. no idea if they went with it.

new photo, wanted to do something like this for a while, but left my slr in long island, so here’s the bootleg version of what i wanted to do with my sister’s crummy point and shoot

aftab preview #3

aftab preview #2

aftab preview #1

eid banquet comin up next week

made a flyer for an upcoming fundraiser, one we hold every year. charity this year goes to turning point, who try to provide a sanctuary for domestic violence victims. i can’t say i love the design but… still learning.

decided to implement that wild sheep chase style for the american gods cover. it works, sort of. makes sense in context of the book, too - gods hidden in the design, the title coming out in the shadow of the cover. still going to toy with other ideas. yes, i know it sort of looks like a barbershop… but i wanted to keep the red/white/blue for ‘MURICA.

hint: if it still just looks like lines and lines… lean far away from your screen.

really nice typeface found on behance.net. it’s $30, but it looks great. especially for single letter use, as seen here.

i’ve been getting some new sources of inspiration for the book covers, in particular this one i found, created by graphic designer sigurd mannsaker at http://sigtastic.com/portfolio.html - a wild sheep chase by haruki murakami. see if you can spot the sheep in that pattern… yup, even has the star on it. sick idea and well executed. now to figure out how to apply this to neil gaiman…

Interworld full book cover. i started to like the back, i don’t anymore. need to work on it some more.

good omens full cover. i’m not 100% on the back cover yet, it’s way too similar to the one that exists right now, except for the massive quote marks.

the full cover for american gods, including the spine and the back cover. neil gaiman loves to put his picture and a little bio on the back of every one of his books so i obliged here. i skipped on the barcode and the publisher information/credits, and gen’s probably gonna say something about that. we shall seeeeeeeeeeee

here’s one with a funkier font and i added some color and contrast to the photo. this one pops a whole lot more, but i hate how many covers utilize the whole text/block over the eyes deal. i did it here because the book is all about gods from different cultures living as mortals around the world, indiscernable from other human beings. they’ve taken on clever aliases and are losing strength as faith in each god slowly diminishes. thus, we see and treat them as we would anyone else. i can get away with it, yass?