Unique LA - July 30 & 31

Fluent Flyers Website: Up and Running!

http://www.fluentflyers.com
this is my brother and i's t-shirt company! It's officially up and running. Check it out and let us know what you think! Thanks!

Fluent Flyers Launch Tomorrow!

Why hello, my bro and i's t-shirt company is launching tomorrow! As in the website and online shop. Stay tuned for more info! Thank you.

http://www.facebook.com/fluentflyers

http://twitter.com/fluentflyers

Arriving soon!

on facebook. on twitter.

shop in the works.

Twitter

Something in the works. Follow us on TWITTER! :-)

Cut and Paste Los Angeles 2010 / Homer + gummi bear in a chocolate car

Homer and his giant gummi bear homie driving around in a chocolate Hershey car.

This was my test round entry for Cut & Paste 2010: Los Angeles: digital design tournament. (http://cutandpaste.com) 15 minutes to design from scratch. Made it to the finals in '09 but I didn't make it this time around. I'm still pretty happy about my piece though. And it was fun going out there for the test round. Just like last year, the test round topic was bliss! On to the next. :-)

Kid Cudi Music Break:
music inspires art.

Kevin Hart is not cocky.

Kevin Hart was in Big Boy's Neighborhood a week or two ago. Funny interview throughout but this had to be his funniest line: "I'm not cocky... but my swagger is." Laughed out loud for real. More than a week later, I (personally) still find it funny. So much so, that I had to slap this together really quick. It's not about the design though, it's about the swagger. lol Peace -vince.

Logo Progress :-)

West Valley 580

This design was intended for a charcoal colored shirt. Large print on the back and a smaller print on the front over the heart. I love blogging about the process when I can. :D

This shirt is for the West Valley CHP. They have an annual ride or race from Baker to Las Vegas. This isn't usually my style but it was fun to work on. Plus it gave me more practice with my tablet that I got a few months ago. Intuos 4!

Check out my step-by-step process after the jump!

Smoke and Rockets

26 Happs

26 HAPPS: Recently redesigned cover. Crop-marked and everything! Two thirds of the way through approvals and print production.

My Farmville Mario

Farmville is the Facebook farming sensation! Here is Super Mario that I made out of hay bales! I'm currently a level 19 farmer and I'm gonna hit 20 very soon. And yes: me = dork. hehe.

26 Happs Sneak

Cut & Paste Competition 2009 Aftermath

So Cut & Paste seemed like it just flew by. It was hectic and fun. No, I didn't win but I did make it to the final round. Despite a stressful morning and early afternoon, it was an amazing time. And I just noticed they updated their website with photos so now I can update my artblog. So here's 30 minutes worth of art from a saturday evening in Los Angeles. Yes, indeed.

Round 1: Human Nature - tattoo
Positive thoughts and ideas grow beautiful things. Negativity grows thorns.

Round 2: Time Travel - lunchbox
It's like a suitcase hence 'travel'. The stickers are time related and food related and there's your 'time' and 'lunchbox'. =)

Thanks for all the love and support the past couple weeks! =P Cheers.

PS. I seriously need to go snowboarding soon!

Cut & Paste Competition 2009 / Bliss

I very recently found out that I will be partaking and competing in what's called the Cut&Paste competition (Los Angeles; there's others in other cities as well). In a nutshell, the participants have 15 minutes to build their design from scratch based off a certain subject. There's 8 designers, 3 rounds and an audience of about 1000.This monkey fishing for banana fish in banana waters was my test round idea; which I sacrificed a day of snowboarding to attend. The subject was 'bliss.' This actual picture is my pre-test round before the actual test round cuz i didn't get a chance to save it for myself. So yeah, that was done in 15 minutes.

Anyways, Cut&Paste goes down on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at Avalon Hollywood. 5PM - 11PM. $15 online pre-sale. $20 at the door. For more information, take a gander here. Mark you calendar. Come out if you can. I really don't know what to expect but it should be fun and something different!

Yes, We Can.

"We've been warned against offering people of this nation false hope,
but in the unlikely story that is America,
there has never been anything false about hope."

Sooner or Later

Sooner or Later is my favorite song off of n*e*r*d's last album, Seeing Sounds; despite the fact that it's kind of a major downer. The photo was taken at the Wiltern about a month ago. They opened for Common. [non gif version]

Oktoberfest

Here's an Oktoberfest flyer/mag ad I designed for WU. The actual final was blue, but I really prefer green. oye. oye. oye!

Prep UCLA

Shirt design I put together for a friend and her group / organization / crew.

K.I.S.S means "Keep It Simple, Stupid!"

Kismet Cinema

A logo I designed a while ago. The wedding rings connecting as the film of the camera. For all your wedding photography and videography needs, visit www.kismetcinema.com. View their blog here. A toast to you and yours.