Category: Design

My friend of many years recently opened a new pizza and pasta restaurant called “Fat Boys Pizza and Pasta” with his in-laws. The needed to make a website, and I volunteered my services to design and build the website.

Fat Boy’s Pizza and Pasta is a “family-owned, family-operated, and ‘fatboy’ approved pizzeria servicing the Ogden area with gourmet pizza and pasta.”

For the web design I wanted to do something clean but fun. I decided to use a counter-top theme with clean lines and an underlying simplicity. Let me know what you think.

If you ever find yourself in the Ogden area, you should try it out!

A friend of mine threw a surprise party for her grandfather’s 80th. In his youth, he was a wrestler known as the Masked Marvel. They wanted a simple invitation, but I convinced them to do something more fun. I modeled this invitation after an old-style wrestling poster. I think it turned out pretty great. Let me know what you think!

This last month my wife and I had our first baby. While this is something that I would normally put personal site, it is the reason for why I have had so much time recently to draw the following things. With less sleep, more down time, and not enough client work to fill my time, I found myself passing time with the recreation of some of the newer recognizable Apple products. Each one is completely vector and drawn in Illustrator CS5.

The new Apple TV. Apple’s continual push towards minimalism makes these less and less challenging to recreate. The harsh glossy lines are no more than simple gradients. Much easier than the previous Apple TV.

The new iPod Nano. This was fun to illustrate because of the detail around the buttons. It really makes the image look good.

The new iPod Touch was also a fun one to recreate. The headphones especially took some time to get right. Overall, I was very pleased with the result.

The Apple Remote. Simple. Not much to it.

The unibody MacMini is gorgeous. It looks so slick. Check the detail work on the slot-loading CD Drive.

And my favorite one of all, the Magic Trackpad. I think this turned out great! This one was actually done in CS3 since I did it on my laptop. (Not going to pay for 2 CS5 licenses now, am I?) That proved some difficulty for transparency with the shadow, but over all, it turned out really well!