Sept 2010 - Lottery in stores now!

Here are two of my Lottery campaigns that are in stores during September. The square poster is for Raffle. The large poster is promoting the scratch-it ticket "Amazing Race."

August 2010 - SITKA Workshop

Our class instructor was the fun, talented, & Swedish Kicki Mathsem.

We learned various ways to imprint onto ceramics. All of the techniques were new to me, and I am looking forward to exploring them further.

Here are the results of my low tech printmaking on ceramics 3-day workshop that I took at SITKA in August. More can be found here on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26930878@N07/sets/72157624605451249/

July 2010 - Garden Art

Here are some ceramic totems, flowers & letterforms in my backyard this summer.

May 2010 - Recent Outdoor Designs

SOLV 2010

Here is the new 2010 SOLV Bag.

SOLV - 2008, 2009

I have just recently been tasked to design the new re-useable bag for SOLV 2010. While researching for this project I dug up the bags and brochure panels that I designed for 2008 & 2009. (SOLV designed their brochures using only two colors, therefore I had to adapt my bag design into a simplified brochure panel.)

2008 Bag (top), 2009 Bag (bottom) - Showing side, front, side, & back panels

2008 & 2009 Brochure Panels

2008 Brochure (top), 2009 Brochure (bottom) - both designed by SOLV

Scratch-it For Schools - April 2010

This year I had the opportunity to design all of the elements needed for this year's Scratch-it for Schools event. We used the same logo as last year, so it was pretty much a revamp of the color scheme.

Info Poster

We used last year's checks because we had so many left over. It worked well since we used the same logo.

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I designed a 25th anniversary bonus foil sticker that was added to distinguish them from last year's checks.

Here are the tickets, info sheet and scrapers that were used this year.

Directional signage.

Check-in table.

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Truck wrap.

Ceramic Kitchen Tiles - April 2010

A few weeks ago I found some great textile blocks (see above) on Etsy and thought they would be interesting to experiement with to see what the impressions would look like in clay. I was thrilled with the results and decided it would be fun to make tiles for my kitchen with the patterns/designs that they created. (I actually bought 11 more blocks today I love them SO much!)

As shown above, I stamp the different blocks into a combination that pleases me, then take my template square and cut around the clay to create my tile.

After the tiles have dried for a few days, I notch the back (for adhesive purposes) and then smooth the edges on the front with a sponge.

St. Patrick's Day Raffle - March 2010

Raffle Outdoor Bulletin

For this St. Patrick's Day Raffle I based the lobby decor on a combination of the print and tv advertising. The print was a very basic pot of gold with 4-leaf clover background. The tv ad consisted of two men walking through a field of sheep in what was meant to look like Ireland. One man was walking a bike. To help people make the connection between the decor and the tv ad, I had a monitor set up in the lobby with a reel of the ad and out-takes from the tv shoot. (above is the marketing dept. with Andy Carson)

One of my favorite parts of the decor was how I adapted the front desk to look like an irish rock wall with weathered wooden gates on each side. The great thing about this budget-wise is that I was able to print everything in-house and did not incur any extra expense beyond the ink and paper. (I included vines, moss, actual rocks and plants to the top of the desk to add effect. I also put a pot full of chocolate gold coins at the front desk for visitors to enjoy.)

View of the front desk and stage from the balcony.

Here is a view of the stage area where the announcement took place. We had the announcement televised on the KPTV Andy Carson morning segment as in past Raffles. We also had the privilage of having our past winner on hand to provide commentary.
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For the stage decoration I was able to obtain the actual bike prop from the tv ad. Unfortunately we were unable to have real sheep in our lobby, so I created sheep cut outs and adhered grass to the stage as well as more faux stone wall. I bought shrubs and fern as well as incorporated the lobby plants into the scene.
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We also streamed the announcement live on our website (above-right is our web master, Matias Trejo).
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For this Raffle I created the reveal with numbers on the underside of the gold that was topping the pot of gold in the announcement scene. Our interim director, Larry Neiswender lifted it up to show the audience the $1 million winning number.

Monopoly Scratch-it - March 2010

This is my most recent Scratch-it campaign for the Oregon Lottery. I am satisfied with how this project went from concept to final execution. I like that it is conceptual and gives viewers the opportunity to make the connection between what the copy is communicating and what the visual delivers.

As seen at Fred Meyer (April 2010)

Keno Refresh - March 2010

Here are posters and hanging banners for the most recent Keno refresh that I designed in the past few weeks. The fun thing is that they feature actual winners, and we haven't done that at the Lottery in quite a while. The challenge was to create a fresh look without having the winners look too forced/posed. The great thing is that all five winners left the photoshoot saying "that was fun."