Black Sunshine

Magic Hat Christmas Tree

2011-12-15T03:28:00.000-08:00

We are having a tree contest this year at the office. Here is my entry (with help from the Mrs.)

perched atop a Winter Wonderland Variety pack.

Alan SnowSanta

Angel bottles

Stylish Mardi Gras tree-topper

Bottle caps and hand-drawn bulbs

Santa breaking out

The classic #9

Zombie Crawl

2011-10-11T14:39:00.000-07:00

Tis the season. This is a logo I mocked up for a local Zombie Crawl sponsered by Magic Hat

The first poster I made. Turns out another distributor used an image very similar.

So we went with this Magic Hat jazzed up version.

Backdrop for the Crawlers to get a memorable photo.

Print ad. If you are in the area, you must attend!

October Darkness

2011-10-03T14:02:00.000-07:00

Coors Light is re-introducing their 16oz Aluminum Pints back into the market. The bottom version uses a font similar to the Poltergeist movie poster for a better tie-in to the slogan.

A New Castle and Guinness combination sure to please.

My annual OSU/Magic Hat themed football schedule. Very similar to last year, utilizing their Hex Ourtoberfest.

Ballyhoo Festival

2011-08-11T03:35:00.000-07:00

Magic Hat/Pyramid designs for the Lemon Grove bar in Youngstown, promoting the Ballyhoo Festival

These pieces are for a runway

Mickey Mart

2011-07-12T02:42:00.000-07:00

A few samples of the final product of a massive Mickey Mart Super Bike giveaway cooler wrap. I designed about 22 of these things which were spread out all over stores in Lorin County and Mansfield.

The final product for the Mansfield Fuel and Food Mart, which was shown in a previous post (mockup)

Wraps

2011-05-03T02:55:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since my last post. I have relocated to Cleveland, though I am still with the same company. Alot of my focus has turned to cooler wraps. Here are a couple of the better ones so far.

Save Second Base

2011-01-20T07:23:00.000-08:00

Logo for a friend's cancer benefit.

Nascar Mockups

2011-01-20T07:05:00.000-08:00

A pair of Nascar inspired cooler wrap mockups for RediGo. They were both well recieved and hopefully will find a home soon.

Giant Eagle CBJ Cooler Wrap

2011-01-11T05:06:00.000-08:00

A cooler wrap for the remaining season for the Blue Jackets. A large dominating piece.

PBR Web Banners

2010-11-24T03:13:00.000-08:00

A few concepts for a web banner spotlighting local music and PBR.

Sign-A-Rama

2010-11-09T14:25:00.000-08:00

Digging through some of my old pieces, I came across some things I made while working at a local Sign-A-Rama about 4 years ago.
Print ad for newspaper.
A promotional for the local high school. A front-back flyer used during the busier time of the year, graduation banners.

A few logo concepts for the DBA company that owned the franchise.

2010 Magic Hat Blue Jackets Schedule

2010-10-27T07:59:00.000-07:00

This years schedule poster is based off of Magic Hat's newly redesigned Winter Variety package. I opted to keep the olive/red color scheme even with the Blue Jackets logos that are scattered throughout.

Tis the Season

2010-09-28T07:37:00.001-07:00

This is for a Haywire Bike Road throughout Cleveland.

A big promo in the Cleveland market for the Labatt girls showing up during Browns/Buckeyes games.

A little photoshop work and the Most Interesting Man becomes even more interesting. And yes, it isn't suppose to look fluid. They wanted it to look this way.

CBJ/Miller Lite Schedule

2010-09-01T05:56:00.000-07:00

A pleasent surprise. Miller Lite signed a sponsership with the Jackets and here is the freshly approved schedule that should be hitting Columbus next week.

2010 Magic Hat Ohio St Football Schedule

2010-08-18T06:09:00.000-07:00

Fairly self explainatory. This features their upcoming seasonal, HEX as well as the staple #9.

Blue Jackets Cards- Year 10

2010-07-20T10:01:00.000-07:00

Has it really been 10 years since I started this project? I have been making custom CBJ hockey cards since the beginning. There are a few early players that I don't have photos for and I can't seem to find anywhere. I just updated stats & photos from last season. It is a tedious adventure each summer, but it usually turns out great. And here are some closeups. I've tinkered with the design over the years.

Alan Jackson

2010-07-20T05:24:00.001-07:00

MIller Lite Concert Poster for Alan Jackson

Tic Toc Beverage Cooler Wrap

2010-07-12T08:05:00.000-07:00

Tic Toc Beverage in Lorain County. The account loved the wrap som much that they decided to do their 2nd store as well.

More Schedules

2010-07-01T06:22:00.001-07:00

My version of the 2010 OSU schedule. This didn't get approved by Miller unfortunately. They went with something more generic.

2010 Yankees schedule based on the Magic Hat Summer Scene Variety pack.

Magic Hat Schedules

2010-06-16T17:30:00.001-07:00

Last years OSU schedule based on the Fall Seasonal Variety Pack, Night of the Living Dead.
OSU basketball schedule with a #9 motif. This turned out great.
Blue Jackets schedule based on the winter variety pack, Feast of Fools. The seasonal was called HOWL and worked out perfectly for a goaltender mask.

TGIF

2010-04-28T16:53:00.001-07:00

This is a placemat that I designed for 1 TGI Fridays location in Lorain. Turns out they loved it so much, that I do this for 6 different locations now monthly. You can send me a gift card anytime.

Assorted Logos

2010-04-16T17:42:00.001-07:00

This was a collaboration with a co-worker, A.J. It was a promotion that Blue Moon was running. They made shirts, pint glasses and coasters from the logo.

This was for a charity bike run event.
I put this together for Chris at Gordon Biersch for Columbus Alefest. We devised a way for the beer to filter through a tube to add more hops. Thus, a Hop Hookah.
Generic Ohio State logo used for the Rosebowl.
And the regular season.
Our 5th year wedding anniversary logo. Similar to the Blue Jackets current logo. This mirrored our wedding logo, which was our initials in the style of the original CBJ logo. Ill have to dig that one up and post it.

Clippers Schedules

2010-04-08T17:25:00.000-07:00

This seasons schedule. Not a lot of work to do, just drop some Clippers logos on a blank Miller Lite baseball template.
Last years schedule, I had to photoshop the beer vendor and make his Miller jersey look like a Clippers jersey.

Magic Hat St. Patrick's and Madness

2010-03-17T06:28:00.000-07:00

A St. Patrick's Day poster I designed for the Columbus market. I turned Alan into a leprauchan. Classic.

This is a March MAdness Bracket I came up with. I'll post last years version in the future. This one is geared towards #9. It turned out great and Magic Hat asked if they could post this to their art site. Fingers crossed.

All Brands Window

2010-03-07T05:21:00.001-08:00

This piece is a 4'x6' window wrap for our customer service window. It features every beer brand that we carry and is pretty dominate to the customer when they walk in. Mission accomplished!

Promos

2010-02-25T14:03:00.000-08:00

Here are some Magic Hat examples of promotions.

Football Schedules

2010-02-19T18:06:00.000-08:00

A big part of my job is creating sports schedules for local teams. Usually we take a generic sports tempalte and try to jazz it up to fit the team colors, etc.
Far and away, the most team schedules we print are for Ohio State football. Here is this past seasons version. We can't use anything related to OSU except red and gray.
Here is the previous season. We thought we could get away with the Buckeye necklace and enlarged 'O' in the text. We didn't. After sending these out to the market, OSU told us we had to remove them all.
Generic OSU for Coors Light.
Coors Light had a sponsorship with the Steelers the year they won the Super Bowl. For some reason though,, they didn't create a schedule, so we did.

Blue Jackets/ Molson Sponsorship

2010-02-09T17:04:00.000-08:00

2008-09 schedule poster. These were hung all over Columbus until Molson created a more official, generic one . I created the pucks and the Molson stick shelf.
In comparison, here is the 2007-08 schedule. No mention of the Blue Jackets. I took the Molson template and photoshopped Blue Jacket player numbers onto the jerseys.

2008-09 playoff poster
Oddly enough, we ran out of tap handles. So I was asked to create one. This is a Killians tap handle painted red with vinyl Molson lettering.I designed the puck label and we drilled the puck on. Finally, I took a beer koozie to polish off the look. I thought they turned out great. There were a handful of these in the Columbus market.
This never made it to the public. It is actually a Bud Light schedule poster that I photoshopped out the Bud neon lettering a replaced it with a Magic Hat logo and a little bit of glow. Much better!

HOPS

2010-01-28T13:49:00.001-08:00

This is HOPS. I created him for a contest to rename a Miller distribution tool. I didn't win, but I still like him.

Magic Hat Goodies

2010-01-20T14:31:00.001-08:00

This is Alan. He is the owner of Magic Hat. I turned him into a crazy basketball fan for a March Madness bracket poster that I will post later.
Here is Alan as a snowman goalie created for a Blue Jackets schedule poster. The helmet is based on Magic Hat's fall seasonal, Howl.
A closeup of the the hockey stick.
This was for a t-shirt contest that Magic Hat did for 09/09/09. Unfortunately, I wasn't eligable, but I made one anyways.

Brandy

2010-01-12T18:53:00.000-08:00

A friend of mine, Brandy Hickman, is fighting breast cancer. Here a re a couple pieces I've done for her.
A t-shirt design for a surprise benefit thrown for Brandy.
This is her logo. They sported this in a 3 day Breast Cancer walk.

Vader #9

2010-01-07T17:52:00.001-08:00

Simply put. Darth Vader holding his and one of my favorite beers. Magic Hat #9. Im sure George would not care for my photoshopping.

Grocery Displays

2009-12-31T17:40:00.000-08:00

This was for a Kroger in Mansfield. It is about 12x9 and is in the first hing you see when walking into the Kroger. The other side of it is below.

This is the mockup pieces for a Molson 'beer boni' to be made out of Molson cases. The final result is below.

These were shelf talkers to go on shelves in groceries, promoting our sponsorship with the Blue Jackets. They really helped drive the retail awareness.

Big Pieces

2009-12-19T08:23:00.000-08:00

One of the biggest pieces I've ever done. I believe it was 8'x19'. A Giant Eagle in Youngstown. Huge and dominating!
Phatt Cat Drive Thru in Youngstown.
This is a mockup of a re-design for Ziggy's Drive Thru in Columbus (Victorian Village)
This TV scoreboard as prompted after seeing the RBAR one. This is the actual piece. Below is the mockup. We laid the pieces to coroplast before hanging so that it would set into the recesses of the scoreboard. This is in Worthington (crosswoods)

RBAR

2009-12-05T09:35:00.000-08:00

The RBAR is THE Hockey bar in Columbus. Located next to Nationwide Arena, the place is jammed pack before, during and after every Blue jackets game. Being such a huge CBJ fan, I was excited to put these pieces together for them. If ever in the area, stop in! They have all kinds of Blue Jackets related items, great beer specials and an awesome atmosphere!

This hung in the windows while they were doing construction on the inside. It was flanked by a Miller Lite one as well.
These hung in the upper windows to keep light from coming down on the bar.
One of the coolest pieces I've done. This is the layout for their "scoreboard". The following is a before shot and different views on the final product. This thing jumps out at you when you first walk in the bar.

Zofia's Birthday

2009-11-27T03:25:00.000-08:00

My daughter, Zofia, turned 1 last week. Here are the invites and birthday banner I designed for the occasion. The character designs were based on craft cut outs I saw of Big Bird and Cookie Monster. I decided to create more and will continue to recreate the whole Sesame Street universe.

Work Space

2009-11-21T14:47:00.001-08:00

I figured my first post should be the work space I've 'decorated'. I took all the logos, templates, graphics, etc we have for the Magic Hat Brewing Company and created a shrine of sorts. Each quarter when the new seasonal beers come out, I try and update the walls and bottle collection.