Three Sixty Five - Thoughts of a Designer

2011-02-13T16:24:00.000-05:00

Decided to experiment with different types of methods and elements to create something different that wasn't seen before.

Day 65: R Splash Effects

2011-01-27T10:00:00.002-05:00

Day 64: NEW Movie Promotion

2011-01-23T19:34:00.005-05:00

The best way to practice design would be by giving yourself the ideal project you would love to work on but never get the chance to. Therefore I created a new movie and gave it a movie promo poster.

Day 63: Robo Logo

2010-12-02T13:24:00.002-05:00

Logo I did for a friend's tentative apparel company.

Day 62: 1000 Words Worth Design

2010-11-06T20:05:00.004-04:00

They say that a picture is worth 1000 words. How many words does a design worth? This design is created to inspire a new way of thinking, a new approach to design, and providing a positive message of "Designing Dreams into Reality".

Day 61: Birthday Invite

2010-09-17T15:52:00.004-04:00

Custom birthday invite.

Day 60: E-mail Ad

2010-09-17T15:49:00.004-04:00

An ad that is sent via E-mail to generate larger audience.

Day 59: Calendar

2010-09-17T15:45:00.004-04:00

A calendar with a theme to promote motivation in the community.

Day 58: Grunge Website Tut

2010-09-02T00:04:00.000-04:00

Continuing to regain photoshop skill. Tut link: http://www.grafpedia.com/tutorials/create-grunge-wordpress-theme-photoshop

Day 57: Portfolio Website Tut

2010-08-30T23:55:00.000-04:00

Just working on my fundamentals so I thought I'd do another Tut. The link to it is: http://psdfan.com/tutorials/designing/create-a-professional-portfolio-design-in-17-easy-steps/

Day 56: Typographic Portrait Tut

2010-08-29T19:02:00.000-04:00

Just trying out some photoshop tuts. Link to tut: http://abduzeedo.com/super-easy-typographic-portrait-photoshop

Day 55: Digital Bokeh

2010-08-25T15:33:00.003-04:00

Digital Bokeh in Photoshop

Day 54: Commute

2010-08-25T11:01:00.002-04:00

It gonna rain

Day 53: Space and Planets

2010-08-10T13:14:00.005-04:00

Space, created in photoshop

Day 51: 4Down Logo

2010-06-30T11:25:00.002-04:00

The logo for a project i'm currently working on, which will hopefully go live in about a month. Stay tuned....

oh yeah and.... guess who's back!

Day 51: Logo Concepts

2010-06-30T09:20:00.003-04:00

Logo concepts for a financial advisor client at Raymond James Ltd.

Day 50: Lowder Design

2010-06-30T01:14:00.002-04:00

Portfolio website overhaul. Currently under construction but its getting a face lift.

www.lowderdesign.com
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 49: FIFA 2010 Creative Advertisement

2010-06-30T00:10:00.005-04:00

I felt the urge to create an unconventional advertisement for the FIFA 2010.

Like a meteor, it comes around every so often. And when it does, the whole world stands in awe. Economy, politics, anguish, pride... all seem so far away.

The only time the world becomes one.

Day 48: E-LAN's World

2010-06-28T20:36:00.005-04:00

A screenshot update of my online portfolio website. WWW.ELANSWORLD.COM

Day 47: The Incredible Hulk

2010-06-28T20:31:00.002-04:00

A movie poster parody remake of The Incredible Hulk.

Day 46: Ain't No Stoppin Me Now

2010-06-28T18:16:00.005-04:00

A promotion poster for the Israeli Hip Hop star Alon De Loco.

Day 45: Are You Charged

2010-06-28T18:13:00.001-04:00

A wallpaper concept for a Dodge Charger.

Day 44: DJ TZ

2010-06-28T18:12:00.001-04:00

Promotion wallpaper to the new Logo for DJ TZ.

Day 43: Tattooed Wallpaper

2010-06-28T18:08:00.002-04:00

A tattoo design that was later on developed into a wallpaper.

Day 42: Play on Words

2010-06-28T18:05:00.003-04:00

My face created with words. By shrinking the image you could see the shadows and detail on my face.

Day 41: The New iLan - Gelled Hair Edition

2010-06-28T18:03:00.003-04:00

Promoting the new and futuristic iPhone (iLan).

Day 40: Feel the Heat of the Beat!

2010-04-21T13:21:00.001-04:00

Exploring new techniques and playing with new styles to promote a message.

Day 39 - Gourmet Food & Wine Expo

2010-04-18T03:09:00.001-04:00

Design for job proposal cover. Simplistic yet effective.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 38: Deep Sea Media Business System

2010-04-09T20:14:00.003-04:00

Business system that goes along with the logo.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 37: Deep Sea Media Logo

2010-04-09T03:18:00.001-04:00

General design company that focuses on web design. The word "deep" represents submarine or goggles with bubbles coming from it to reinforce the idea. Navy Blue was chosen because it gives off a relaxing feeling and to once again reinforce the idea of the deep sea. I used the typeface Vag Rounded STD. I loved the rounded curves and bubbling tone the letters had.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 36: Plakatstil WordMark

2010-04-07T21:26:00.004-04:00

Word markbased on Plakatstil. Hand drawn lettering, which was then taken to the computer for refinement.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 36: Art Nouveau Wordmark

2010-04-07T21:23:00.005-04:00

This is a wordmark based on Art Nouveau. Hand drawn lettering, which was then taken to the computer for refinement.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 35: Be Who You Want To Be

2010-03-01T19:38:00.002-05:00

By believing in yourself and working hard for what you want, one can become who ever they want to be.

Day 34: DVD Package Display

2010-02-19T13:55:00.003-05:00

An entertainment package display for previously done posters.

Day 33: Bring Out Your Inner Beauty

2010-02-12T16:25:00.003-05:00

Because of society people become afraid to show who they really are. To succeed and rise in society one must bring out their inner beauty and not be afraid to show others who they really are ;)

Day 32: Nothing Is Impossible

2010-02-05T23:55:00.002-05:00

Demonstrating an understanding of both skills and strong message is the key =)

Day 31: Portfolio Website

2010-02-03T23:41:00.001-05:00

My new portfolio site in the making. Still a work in progress.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 30: Random Drawing

2010-02-02T10:50:00.001-05:00

Just some pure randomness. Imagine falling asleep and waking up and this guys just looking into your eyes.

Day 29: Random Drawing

2010-02-01T21:17:00.000-05:00

Due to a high workload we will be only posting weekdays. Occasionally weekends. This is just a random drawing of some guy on the bus.

Day 28: LC Logo

2010-01-27T21:49:00.003-05:00

Here is a logo option for LC design. We are trying to use the abbreviation as a logo because the name is too long to use in the logo. The LC also forms an "ON" symbol. This has meaning to us because we are always "on" up awake designing.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 27: Tutorial

2010-01-26T10:37:00.000-05:00

Back to the space theme. Decided to do a tutorial today.

Day 26: Promo Poster

2010-01-24T17:19:00.002-05:00

I've come across the video clip Shut It Down by Pitbull Feat. Akon and was so inspired to make a promo poster which at the same time allowed me to play with new style of compositions.

Day 25: Logo Concepts (3)

2010-01-23T00:48:00.001-05:00

Sorry about not posting in a couple of days. I was out of town. Heres some final logos for that production company I'v been working with.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 24: Logo Concepts (2)

2010-01-20T20:42:00.002-05:00

Took the drawings from yesterday and did some on the computer.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 23: Logo Concepts

2010-01-20T00:21:00.001-05:00

Some logo concepts for a client. It's for a movie production company.
©2010 LOWDER CHESTERMAN DESIGN

Day 23: The Resume

2010-01-19T22:04:00.003-05:00

I spent today sprucing up the old sheet of credentials, hopefully it assists me in getting a wonderful job hahah!

Day 22: Abstract mondays!

2010-01-18T21:28:00.003-05:00

So I decided from now on Mondays will be dedicated to making a piece of abstract art, here's my first go at it

Day 21: A closer look at the truth...

2010-01-17T14:39:00.004-05:00

Here's a nice little piece of conspiracy inspired typography :D

Day 20 - Manipulation (under pressure)

2010-01-16T20:41:00.001-05:00

Just some random messing around with photoshop. Lost some quality on the upload. Heres the stock I used. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonytoo/3683219335/

Day 20: Refresh

2010-01-16T18:10:00.002-05:00

Refresh!

Day 19: Mad as a hannable? (hatter v2 :D)

2010-01-15T20:28:00.003-05:00

I decided to add a little spice to the original day 19 entry :D

Day 19: As mad as a hatter

2010-01-15T16:16:00.004-05:00

In spirit of the upcoming alice in wonderland movie (which looks amazing by the way), I decided to try out a photo manipulation/retouch for the first time. You can see the image I used at http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2010_Alice_in_Wonderland/2010_alice_in_wonderland_mad_hatter.jpg

Day 18 - Freestyle Drawing (random)

2010-01-14T23:13:00.000-05:00

Another boring subway and bus ride today so I decided to do some illustration. Just some random stuff.

Day 18: Smoke and Mirrors

2010-01-14T19:32:00.003-05:00

It's only day 18/365 and it's beginning to become hard to think of new ideas :( well, here's day 18, smoke and mirrors...

Day 17: Creativity

2010-01-13T23:07:00.004-05:00

The result of a being really tired while doing my daily design :D

Day 17: Random

2010-01-13T21:40:00.000-05:00

Just messed around with text and layers in both photoshop and illustrator and came out with something cool.

Day 16: Freestyle Drawing (random)

2010-01-12T20:14:00.000-05:00

Random Drawing of some guy on the bus.

Day 15: ???

2010-01-11T15:55:00.003-05:00

Here's yet another attempt at photo manipulation, this one is kind of sporadic but i'm not unhappy with how it turned out haha!

Day 14 - Photo Minip (Robot of Society)

2010-01-10T21:08:00.001-05:00

Decided to do some photo minip. Haven't done it in a while.
Society molds some into robots. Following the "blueprints", throwing there personal views out the door or just simply locking them up.

Day 13: Photo Manipulation #2 .... magic?

2010-01-09T17:06:00.006-05:00

Here's another attempt at photo manipulation (again), I really want to get better at this technique so i'll be posting random things like this every now and then!

Day 12: Drawing (Fear)

2010-01-09T04:17:00.000-05:00

I'm a little late with this one due to being away for the day. Just some freestyle drawing.

Day 12: Dark Planet

2010-01-08T13:30:00.002-05:00

Here's another attempt at photo manipulation, I used stock photos of a cityscape and some landscape photo's here, coupled with some nice planet brushes and a whole bunch of layers and layer adjustments!

Day 11 - Tattoo

2010-01-07T21:37:00.003-05:00

1 of many tattoos that was done for relaxing =)

Day 11 - LC Girl

2010-01-07T04:32:00.002-05:00

Did this for a client, decided to post it up for my daily design. Done in illustrator.

Day 11: h2O

2010-01-07T02:35:00.004-05:00

I saw a couple of graphics like this recently, I thought i'd give it a try, i'm pretty happy with the result. This is also one of my first tries at photo manipulation! Pretty fun stuff

Day 10 - 2 Fresh

2010-01-06T21:03:00.001-05:00

I'v done something like this before but when i received my "computer arts" mag today I wanted to try something like their cover.

Day 10: Electric Feel

2010-01-06T11:40:00.004-05:00

I'm putting together a reel of my work soon so I can start contacting companies (4 months left of school!) I came across the song "electric feel" as one of the potential song to use for it, and it inspired this graphic... it kinda shocked me like an electric....

Day 09 - Freedom

2010-01-06T00:03:00.002-05:00

Once again trying to keep the posts versatile. I'm a couple min late posting. This piece speaks for itself.

Day 09: Spectrum

2010-01-05T06:45:00.003-05:00

I guess I was feeling colourful when I thought of this idea, I saw a similar type effect and thought it would fit perfect with this colour spectrum idea.

I was right :).

Day 09: Unique

2010-01-05T01:23:00.007-05:00

Anyone can communicate a message, but to communicate the message efectively is only earned by practice. ;)

Day 08 - Web Interface

2010-01-04T13:54:00.000-05:00

Took the daily designs to a whole new level. My first time doing this type of web layout. entire thing is custom. I know daily designs are not suppose to be so detailed but I have the time right now so I took advantage.

Day 08: A six letter word for freedom.

2010-01-04T08:50:00.004-05:00

Some fun with smoke brushes and good 'ol fashioned type !

Day 08: hot celestial bodies (pun intended)

2010-01-04T03:03:00.005-05:00

I've been coming across a lot of space explosion type graphics this past little while so here's my attempt at creating my own :)

Day 07 - Pattern

2010-01-04T00:01:00.001-05:00

Decided to try out a pattern. Done in illustrator. It was taking forever to upload which is why its posted late.

Day 07 - Dey-Lee Di-Zahynz

2010-01-03T07:39:00.004-05:00

I remember seeing something with a page opening and revealing some html code a while ago and I figured i'd try the page peel effect since i've never done it, and also I figured html code fits in pretty well with this whole thing since I also develop websites.

Day 07 - Twitter Theme Design

2010-01-03T05:11:00.008-05:00

So I got caught up in making my twitter page look nicer, so I thought i'd post two designs for today, here is the twitter page theme, i'll be posting another graphic later on today as well! Remember to check back later! Also, follow us on twitter! http://www.twitter.com/dailydesigns

Day 06 - Grass Tutorial

2010-01-02T07:46:00.000-05:00

Just a tutorial to learn some new techniques. http://www.tutsforps.com/Photoshop-Tutorials/Texteffects/Create-Grass-text-in-Photoshop.htm

Day 06 - Breakdancer

2010-01-02T06:42:00.000-05:00

I tried to combine illustrator and photoshop together but realized I've lost photoshop skills but I still got a decent result.

Day 06: Stay Green!

2010-01-02T05:31:00.005-05:00

Today's graphic is a little bit special... I put some extra time into it :) . I originally had the idea to do a green abstract type earth with grass and trees all over it, and then this idea popped into my head ... this is my depiction of our wonderful earth burning out. Enjoy!

Day 05 - Freestyle Drawing (Bill)

2010-01-01T23:35:00.000-05:00

I decided to keep with the character sketches and improve. This is a family member of mine.

Day 05: LC Design !

2010-01-01T08:28:00.005-05:00

Some fun with brushes and multi coloured gradient overlay layer styles :D. Oh ya... happy new year!!

Day 04: Eye wide open...

2009-12-31T04:56:00.004-05:00

I just had this idea of a crazy eye that kind of peers into your soul.... anyways, this is what came from that ... enjoy :D

Day 04 - Freestyle Drawing (Jay)

2009-12-31T00:59:00.000-05:00

Another freestyle drawing. Decided to get the feeling for hand drawing pieces again.

Day 03: Eclipse?

2009-12-30T23:15:00.005-05:00

I appologize in advance for the lens flare :( ... this is a tutorial that can be found on smashing magazine's website. Still trying to get my mind into space...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com

tutorial: http://abduzeedo.com/really-cool-eclipse-effect-photoshop

Day 03 - Freestyle Drawing (Nas)

2009-12-30T23:06:00.000-05:00

Decided to do something a little different. I'm not much of a drawer so allot of my posts will be geared towards improving my drawing skills. This is a freestyle drawing of a hip-hop artist called "Nas".

Day 02: Planet Photoshop

2009-12-29T07:35:00.003-05:00

trying to get my mind on space...

Day 01: iHolidays - Apple Christmas Design

2009-12-28T04:23:00.004-05:00

Apple design inspired by the Christmas spirit!

Day 01 - Website Ideas

2009-12-28T03:36:00.008-05:00

Brain storming ideas for the "Lowder Chesterman Design" website. The theme is "space lab".