This was a rather complex project offered to me from Castle Awards. The project included me to create a flashy design for the front and back of the T-shirt for a race car driver.

The back design was rather complex yet enjoyable to create. After some research, I quickly noticed that the racing market seemed to have their own unique design style and was happy to be given the opportunity to try something new. The design was drawn in Adobe Illustrator but the color separations were done with ease by using the multi-channel mode in Photoshop.

An illustration for a T-shirt. The artwork was created by first finding a photo of the car and then placing it in Adobe Illustrator. I rendered the car over the photo, section by section.

Although I probably would have drawn the motorcycle directly on the computer today, this drawing was done years ago, and was simply produced with a black pen on Illustration board. It was later scanned in as a .tiff file, outputted to produce a film positive and etched on glass. The customer later reused the artwork as a screenprint on t-shirts.

Here is another project offered by Castle Awards. The design, which includes the color separations and trappings, was executed in Adobe Illustrator. The blue splash in the background and the swimmer was created by using a program called Adobe Streamline. Adobe Streamline "vectorizes" bitmap photographs which gives you a lot of control on how the program will render the lines. The streamline file was later imported to Illustrator.

In collaboration with the mayor's office, I was selected to design the city banners for Fall River's Bicentennial year. Similar to the Bicentennial Logo shown in the logo section, I have chosen to emulate a patriotic and sentimental, nostalgic feel. I used a "vectorizing" technique to the photographs which were screenprinted a single sepia color on an light tan background. The blue and red are the traditional American flag colors. Five banners were created in all and displayed on lamp posts throughout the city.