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Brochure, custom stickers and calendar I designed to give to clients for Christmas. The stickers were made at inkflo and the brochure was made at 2daypostcards

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Now this came out really cool. I just wish I had the finished product photo. Customer wanted to showcase how sandblasted glass can be contained in an IG unit without ever having to worry about oil stains from peoples hands. The image is on the inside of the unit! So what’s cool? I took the original photo when I was in New York City. I then opened up Photoshop, converted the image to gray scale and had to adjust the levels and contrast to get a striking black and white image. The reason for that is I needed Illustrator’s live trace feature to pick up all the details for me.

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This shower enclosure was sandblasted two ways: surface etch and deep etch. They look super cool but they are time consuming, as you have to weed and blast the glass twice. Deep etching the glass takes about four times and long and it’s done by hand. My arm always hurts making these.

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Customer had an idea for sandblasted glass for his new shower sliding door. He found an image on the internet and I had to recreate it. No problem for this seasoned pro!

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I don’t remember what this was from. Hell, I don’t think I designed it. I believe the artwork came camera-ready I just had to cut the vinyl, apply it and sandblast the glass.

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This piece was for a customers window that he wanted replaced. It was in an area of his house where he wanted privacy but also to have something nice to look it as well. All I was given was a low-res photo of the black and white ivy and that’s where it began! I traced it all in Adobe Illustrator. Another great piece!

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The swirls/vines that you see are clear, it’s the negative space that is sandblasted. I wish I could say that I created the pattern, it was another designer. It came out beautiful!

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The box below is the first time I got to do packaging design! Not extremely difficult. Just contact your vendor, they give you a template, design your little heart out. Just like in print the template gives you the bleed, live area and trim lines. The glass piece I designed as well. The logo that you see is what the A3 glass logo was before I redesigned it.

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So I was given an architects actual hand drawing of what they wanted on a shower door for a client. The customer then came to me and asked if it could be done. I said, “Hell yeah!”. I only asked for the architects drawing, in raster, and then sent it to Illustrator where I ran a live trace so that the plotter knew what it was cutting. Lots of detail and it came it out perfect.

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At Harvey Builders I got to design multiple hard hat stickers. Something I’ve never done before. Quick tip, when designing these base them off of an oval as it wraps the hard hat better. Most of the designs you see were done by me. 

The IQI sticker was one of the very most important projects to start on. Harvey has a sister company and they needed a logo ASAP. The previous designer took it too literal and that was exactly what I needed to make it mine.

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I got to design a lot of shirts with Harvey Builders. My manager was in a creative rut with them so she sent all designs to me. I was super excited to work on them as I’ve never designed shirts before.

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Photography, 3D modeling and graphic design all by me. I loved going out and taking photos of jobs that we did. I took hundreds of Camera RAW photos and went through each one of them. I’m pretty sure this made it to print but I never kept the camera-ready version of this. Sorry.

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A funny little poster I did at one of my previous jobs. I took the picture of the production manager. I wanted him to ham it up as much as possible to get the production guys to laugh and want to read it. I think it helped with production.