On to the Next Adventure!

CONGRATULATIONS TEXAS STATE VOLLEYBALL!  If you weren't in San Antonio on Sunday backing the Bobcats, you missed a great performance as the team took it to Stephen F. Austin to secure a 3-1 victory for the SLC title and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

As promised, here is a preview of my last design for Texas State Athletics, as my last day will be tomorrow.  I'm really happy with this design, I think it keeps continuity with my other fall championship design, and reflects everything that this program is about!

My time at Texas State was amazing and I am glad I had the honor of helping propel the program into a higher level of competition. I look at the growth that the department has achieved in the last year and I can see how I grew with it, both professionally and emotionally. I'll always remember the great students, friends, administrators and fans I had the chance to build friendships with, and I'll always be proud to say that I was a Bobcat.

Good luck to the Bobcats in the NCAA tourney next week, and don't forget to Eat 'Em Up!

Pack Wacker Time!

Huge game this weekend vs No. 10 McNeese State. Winner of this game gets the Wild Card TV game next week and comes one step closer to the Southland Conference title!

I helped the Texas State Student Foundation come up with a design for their '09 'Pack Wacker' shirts. All of the proceeds from the sale of the shirts go to scholarships for student leaders. As a former student leader, I know how much those scholarships are needed when you're putting a ton of work in to making your school a better place.


I tried to dress it up a little bit for posting on the 'ol blog.

I do have to say, I am rather proud of myself for making the rendering of the new West Side Complex in Illustrator! It was a major challenege, and in the end, I am happy with how it came out!

Texas State Football is rolling along!

Here is the new txstatebobcats.com  splash page that will be up this week to greet fans who visit our site looking for info about the big game this weekend vs. nationally-ranked McNeese State for control of the Southland Conference and the automatic post-season bid.

You have no idea what a relief it is to be involved with a program that has a team that closes the deal!

That's not a stab at my Alma Mater, but for the first time, I witnessed 'my team' claw their way to a victory with only moments left in a game to seal the deal.  It was such an AMAZING feeling!

We're going to be pushing hard for a sell-out and then some this week. Expect a few surprises!

Another Championship year

Texas State Soccer has already clinched at least a share of the conference title, so we diecided to make some championship shirts so we could give them out to the team come their final home contest this Friday.

I decided to use a sillouhette of the buildings around the field, because they're a picturesque backdrop and major part of our field's atmosphere.

Final Men's & Women's Basketball Posters (I think?)

After much vision and revision, here is what i think will be the final versions of the 09-10 Texas State MBB & EBB Schedule Posters.

MBB on Deck

Was struggling to get the MBB poster draft together, but in the last hour or so, things just started falling in to place.

Keeping the continuity going!

Remembering a National Championship 50 years later

This year Texas State will be honoring their 1960 NAIA National Championship team. I put this together yesterday so we could have a commeorative graphic to honor this accomplishment all year long.

2009-2010 Texas State Women's Basketball Poster

(NOTE: This is the First Draft)

There was a lot of hassle getting the pieces I needed together to make this poster happen, but my vision came together fast and I finished the entire concept in just under 4 hours.

More Wallpaper!

New Wallpapers for txstatebobcats.com

The webpage was needing some newer wallpaper with the updated brand content. What do you think?

More poster series

I can't believe how quickly the season is blowing by! We are already in to week four of our eleven-week poster series for the campus paper

Remember, remember the Fifth of September...

I've been working all summer on a branding campaign with Texas State Athletics that helps create a sense of not only continuity, but excitement for the many changes taking place.

The University is seeing unprecedented growth on all fronts, and Athletics is leading the call.

As part of an 11 week advertising series that kicks off this week in the University Star, Texas State's campus newspaper, we will highlight different facets of the program that give fans an in-depth view of what is going on inside the department with a collectible poster series sponsored by Grande Communications.

This is week One.

What if El Paso hosted the Olympics?

I think this is what their logo would look like.

I used a series of golden stars that join to make a sun--the symbol of the great Sun City.

The image invokes somewhat of a Mexo-Indio feel reminiscent of the natural cultural representations found in the area.

TXST Baseball Championship Design

I didnt get around to posting it before, but here is my design for this year's baseball conference championship shirt.

Latest Identity Work

Here are some projects I am currently working on:

Kyle Doperalski is a good friend of mine, and an up and coming collegiate athletic sports broadcaster based out of Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was named top national volleyball broadcaster in 2008 by the AVCA for his radio and television play by play.

Kyle wants something that is modern utilizing his alma mater's colors. The 'signal icon' is a bit overdone right now, but I couldn't think of another way to get the 'broadcast idea across. Any thoughts?

Beasley, Mitchell & Company LLP is a CPA firm in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The firm’s services include accounting, taxation, business consultation, litigation support, and estate/gift planning. They are looking at revitalizing their image in the market, and they asked me for some help.

Primarily, BMC wanted to update the firm logo. They’ve added some younger partners in the last few years, and they have been told their image is still old-school. They asked me to give them a mark that would liven-up their promotional materialand add a more modern feel.

Thks4theMmrs!

This was a great year for Bobcat Baseball and Softball! Two conference championships, a trip each to the NCAA tournament and a long list of conference awards.

I'm not a huge fan of the "Baseball & Softball" being left-justified and aligned with the "Texas State" wordmark, but that was the consensus of how the group wanted it.

Some old Twitter Backgrounds

I think Twitter is a pretty fun way to communicate with a captive audience. I think it gets even better when you can brand that communication with a nice clean look. Here is a background that I used for Texas State Athletics.

Note that it gives some great information on contacting the department for tickets and such. The more exposure the better!

The second is for a fan page for the Crossmen Drum And Bugle Corps in San Antonio. My buddy is their tour director and I am a big fan myself having marched in a corps in 2001.

I wanted their name to be prominent plus i wanted their symbol 'Bones' to be slightly visible in the corner--paying tribute to his mystic essence and shrouded appearance throughout the corps' decorated history.

Give them what they want...

I caught wind that some hardcore fans really liked the concept of a campaign the Red Sox did a few years back that asked their fans to 'Believe".

The design utilized the team's signature "B". They asked for someone to mock it up using Texas State's "B", I figured it would be fun to give the fans something that helped them express their excitement for this year's baseball season.

Wrap up and Preview

We added this 'thank you' page to our website that thanks our fans for their support this season in helping both teams earn a regular season championship.

I wanted to include elements that will help us transition into next week's page, and a list of all of the championships we won this year.

WEEEE ARE THE CHAMPIONS....AGAIN!

Here is the design that I designed for the 2009 Softball Conference Champion t-shirt.

The turnaround time on this piece was small at best, as I had very little time to work on a design on top of some other major projects going on at the time.

It reminds me of a Transformer's head. What do you all think?

Our 2009 Season is just around the corner!!!

It's time to start building up the excitement for our 2009 season!

This is a splash page that is going up on TXSTATEBOBCATS.COM in a few weeks, but it really captures the visual identity that we are going to take for the 09-10 campaign. I wanted to go for that epic look. For some strange reason, most TXST fans don't really get excited so the task at hand was to create a campaign that stimulated their desire for a top caliber team. As the defending conference champions, they definitely have the ability, now I am trying to give them the look!

The season tickets for football are complete! Here are the flats that will be sent to all season ticket holders in a few weeks!

More to come as pieces become available!

Take a listen to the...

A new feature at Texas State Baseball and Softball games is the Cat Pod. Our staff pre-selects music and asks the crowd to pick their favorite from three songs played live during an inning transition with their applause.

A few innings later, we play the selected song in it's entirety to the delight of our fans.

I developed this graphic for our video director and he did a great job of animating it and putting it on our video boards.

More Texas State Designs

Tidy-ing up TC Austin

My old boss needed some help with a one page document that they wanted ted to add some flash to. After many tries, I think this beats a word document.