Category: Illustration
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Cool King® “Surf City’s Premier Dessert Destination” Advertisement & Post Dialogue
With this advertisement I wanted to show some hometown pride. I figured I’d give a shout-out to Huntington Beach’s deep roots in surf culture — it is known as “Surf City”. I took the photo of the shop the day after there was a big rain. I thought the cloud formations added a nice element…
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Cool King® “Double Chocolate Brownie” Gelato Motion Graphic and Flavor Card
This is the motion graphic and flavor card design I came up with to promote Cool King’s “Double Chocolate Brownie” Gelato. With the sound design, I sampled C+C Music Factory’s 1990 hit “Things That Make You Go Hmmmm….” and overdubbed “Ooooh!” recordings since brownies are definitely in my to 5 favorite desserts. “Double Chocolate Brownie”…
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Fermentation Farm “Kefir Pop” Labels
Dr. Yasmine Mason over at Fermentation Farm asked me to develop label graphics for their “Kefir Pops” line. Here request was the design pull from their existing the turn of the century / 1800s farm town / “Apothecary” theme we initially built the brand on, as well as be fun due to this product line…
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Cool King® “Pistachio” Almond Milk Yogurt
For this ad, I was searching on the web to get inspired by something that shocased the word “Pistachio” and I stumbled across this comedian/musician named Tom McGovern. For the sound design I did a remix using the song he did in his skit about “Pista-CHEE-o” being “da’ best nut”. Please support Tom in all…
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“Vegan of Course” T-shirt Design and Motion Graphic
I met Sky while working on the “Visions by Ehsan” project. To help support his podcast, I drew up a couple designs for T-shirts for him to sell on his Etsy store. I named this design “Effervescence” to call notice to the bubbles floating at the top if the word “vegan” as a shout out…
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Cool King® “Totally Awesome Chocolate Overload” Ice Cream
This is the rebrand I did for Cool King’s “Chocolate Overload” Ice Cream. I can remember how much fun it was to show up at the local arcade with a pocket full of quarters. Upon entering the darkened den, you’d be bum rushed by a tidal wave of spazamatic digital boinks and binks, eruptions of…
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Visions by Ehsan Website Design
This project was based on the client’s emphasis on creating a website design with “Wow!” factor.
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Visions by Ehsan :: Painting 1084 of 2000
Here’s another showcase of one of the 2000 paintings that is part of Ehsan’s “Vision of Unity & Peace” fine art installations.
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Cool King® “Your way, everyday!” Video Production
In my opinion, there’s nothing like fun times spent with friends and family to bring forth a brighter day. I was commissioned to created this video to virtually live the “Cool King Frozen Yogurt & Desserts” experience. Laughs and smiles seem to be a byproduct of visiting this shop. No script, no direction, just document…
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Visions by Ehsan :: Painting 41 of 2000 Motion Graphic
Just a quick edit I made to help promote Ehsan’s “Vision of Unity & Peace” project.
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Cool King® “Snickerdoodle Ice Cream” Advertisement
By happenstance, I stumbled upon this 1960s French Pop song “Zou Bisou Bisou” by Gillian Hills. It inspired this advertisement for Cool King’s “Snickerdoodle” Ice Cream. For fits and giggles, I wrote the ad copy in a humours “sing-songy” nursery rhyme style.
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Cool King® Official North Pole Vanilla Ice Cream
This is the 4th installment of the Cool King® holiday series advertisements I created. Their previous concept was “Polar Bear Ice Cream” with a realistic Polar Bear photo. I riffed off that to create something more with elements pulled from Sanrio characters (i.e. Hello Kitty) and Asian influenced animation. The song sampled is Polar Bear…
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Cool King® Thanksgiving Motion Graphic for Social Media
I made this motion graphic to show gratitude to those who have supported Cool King®. I was inspired by the design elements the art direction for greeting cards in the United States during the 1940s. I initially modified a scan of a card from the era in an iOS mobile app named “Retouch”. From there…
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Cool King® Zombie Sour Apple Frozen Yogurt Advertisement :: Version 2
I made a more cartoon tinged advertisement with the intent to call back my memories of the old Universal Studios monster movies from the 30’s and 40’s and my favorite Halloween themed cartoons (Screams and groans, specifically!). I also wrote a little nursery rhyme styled text for the post.
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Cool King® Just A Little Hocus Pocus Advertisement
Heres a short little advertisement I composed to announce the services Cool King® provides. The song sampled is Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of ”20th Century Boy” originally performed by T. Rex in 1973.
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Visions By Ehsan “Red Fingerprint Series” NFT Collection
I was asked to create a promo video and post verbiage for Ehsan’s recent NFT drop. Here’s what was published.
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Cool King® “Count Chocula” Frozen Yogurt
In the fifth iteration of the Cool King® Halloween Series, I embellished classic movie monster horror imagery with the ultra popular cocoa infused confectionary flavor — chocolate. With the post text, I carried the spooky nature of previous posts and incorporated a chocolate infused theme.
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Cool King® “Zombie Sour Apple” Frozen Yogurt Advertisement
With the fourth release of the Cool King® Halloween Series advertisements I did the graphics in a less cartoon style. I used a combination of stock graphics (The apple photo and hand graphic) with custom illustrations to compose the elements I included in the video. I also added to the “Muerte Family” ghost stories with…
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Cool King® “Ghosted Marshmallow” Gelato Advertisement & Nursery Rhyme
With the third installment of the Halloween 2022 campaign for Cool King, I was inspired to create visuals and a story targeted at those who love vintage animation. I had fun with the post dialogue with the intent of writing a spooky bedtime story.
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Cool King® “Strawberry Brains” Advertisement & Story
Here’s the second installment in the Halloween campaign I created for Cool King® Frozen Yogurt & Desserts. In this iteration, I composed the graphics, edited the video, engineered the sound design, and wrote the story that accompanied the video in the post.
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Cool King® “Monster Pumpkin Pie Bar” Ice Cream
Halloween is always fun around Cool King Frozen Yogurt & Desserts. This is the first in a series of flavor promotions I did for their social platforms. More to come!
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Cool King® “Classic Tart” Frozen Yogurt
If I’m having fun making the advertisement, then it must increase the possibility of the viewer having fun too — right?
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Cool King® “Blu-Raz” Italian Ice Ad
I composed motion graphics and post text for this ad for Cool King’s social profiles. I was inspired by the business owner Rob’s love for 80’s rock bands and freestyle BMX.
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Cool King® T-shirt Design
As a refresh to the staff uniform, I illustrated this graphic. Something simple to personify the intent Cool King® wishes to bring to it’s customers.
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GET SAFE® Workplace Empowerment & Safety Training Event Photography & Promotional Video
With this project, I ventured to the offices of the Moulton Niguel Water District to shoot editorial photography and capture video of Get Safe’s Workplace Empowerment & Safety Training classes. I used this as the base to write the description for the YouTube post. I edited this video and designed the title card as well.…
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Cool King® “Get Your Swirl” Motion Graphic for Social Media
This is a motion graphic that I created for Cool King® Frozen Yogurt & Desserts to promote their “Get Your Swirl” campaign for Summer 2022. It’s short length (10 seconds) and 9:16 aspect ratio is intended for publishing on social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. I rendered it 4k using…
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Cool King® “Churro” Frozen Yogurt
This is the motion graphic and post dialog I came up with to promote Cool King’s “Churro” flavor.
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The Selleck Palm Springs Logos
These are the two logo designs “The Selleck” went with to brand their amazing short term rental located in the heart of Palm Springs. I highly recommend if you’re going to be out that way, you look into making it your “home away from home” while you are there. Book your next stay at The…
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Cool King® “Vanilla Ice Cream” Motion Graphic
I declare, Vanilla is not mundane! A flavor this bold deserves all the love it can handle. Cool King’s soft serve ice cream personifies the flavor’s amazing flavor and this motion graphic celebrates that. #motiongraphics #graphicdesign #digitalpromotion #graphics #branding #design
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Fermentation Farm Kombucha Label Designs
Fermentation Farm has grown into the “go to” purveyor of high-quality, hand-crafted nourishing foods. I respect they set the bar high with their expectation for excellence. The Yelp community does as well since they rated them #3 of the top 100 in the nation of 2022. Throughout the years I have had the opportunity to…
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Wild Rose Bakers Logo
This is the graphic I created for Wild Rose Bakers. The goal was to design something that had interesting texture and detail when scaled large, but also functioned well when used in situations where a small image was needed.
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South Bay Abrams Art Direction, Catalog, and Website Design
I worked as Art Director for many years with South Bay Abrams (1999 – 2020). I took care of many projects in that time. Some highlights are: I updated the companies identity, directed and helped build (160) page print catalog, designed and maintained their websites, conceptualized grocery point of sale pricing systems, and designed their…
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