A couple new U of M pieces

These are a couple pieces I did over the Thanksgiving holiday. The top one is for those recruits whose teams won their state title. The bottom piece is for all those who helped with the official visit weekend the U of M had a couple weeks ago. I'm currently working on the Potential Student Athlete Questionnaire as well as some other pieces. Working with the Tigers certainly keeps me busy, but I can't complain when it's for football.

U of M Postseason Good Luck Pieces

Here are a couple good luck pieces to send out to recruits whose teams are fighting their way through the postseason. I had a lot of fun with both. The bottom piece is one of a series of three with a different going out after each playoff victory. I particularly like that one because the picture at center is one I took when I had the opportunity to watch the U of M take on MTSU from the sidelines. I was able to take my family to watch the Tigers play UAB this past Saturday as well. Although they didn't win, we had an awesome watching the game.

Several New U of M Pieces

 Tulane Game Review

 20 Reasons #10-Internship Opportunities

It was a real challenge to create this piece as they wanted me to incorporate all the logos of the companies into the piece somehow. I was brainstorming for this one when I came up with the idea of making the logos shape the "M" in the Tigers logo. I thought it was an interesting solution with a fairly solid turnout

 Coach Congratulations

 Team Congratulations for Undefeated Season

(I know I'm partial to Lombardi quotes, but I'm a Packers fan. What do you expect?)

Tough Season

This piece was one of my favorites from this week. I really spent some extra time looking up inspiration before I got to work this past weekend and I think it helped a lot in adding some new flavor to the pieces like the one above. I went away from the grungy fonts and went for a crisper look on this one and I believe it turned out very well. I had three different versions of the background, this being the one they liked. All in all it is one of my favorite pieces of the season so far, which I am happy to say. As a designer, I always want to keep replacing what I think is my best piece with something newer. It helps you to know you are growing as an artist.

10th Anniversary Logo on Ice Bears Rink!

A lot of artists want their artwork to be hung on a gallery wall...

 ...I prefer mine on the rink!

Check it out, the first glimpse of my 10th Anniversary logo on the ice at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum (lower right of the pic). I can't wait to go to a game to get a better look at it in person. It is still an insanely awesome feeling to see it like that. To give proper photo props, here is the link to this photo on the Ice Bears website. After I go to a game I will post photos of my own.

A Happy Halloween from the U of M...

...and Good Luck piece that I really like how my typography turned out on. Why not?

New U of M Powerpoint Backgrounds

New U of M Game Invite & Good Luck

 Good Luck #9

 Good Luck #10

ECU Game Invite

I decided to change things up a bit this week with a couple pieces I've been doing pretty regularly for the Memphis Tigers. I was working on finding quotes for these two latest Good Luck pieces when I thought about just changing things up a bit to give the potential student athletes who are receiving them a change of piece. I decided to take the picture out of the background and put it to the side and separate it from the texture/quote area. I like the way they turned out and the team did too.

For the Game Invite we decided since that this game would mark the halfway point we would change things up just a little to once again give the potential student athletes something somewhat new to look at. I went with a straight on vertical layout but still kept the kind of movie poster quality to it. It was a bunch of subtle changes that ended up looking like pretty spiffy. I am now looking forward to meeting the team in Murfreesboro this next weekend and rooting them on against the Blue Raiders!