Hey hey! Just finished my courses, got that degree in graphic design (bona fide!) Starting my courses in video production and advanced digital media soon. For now, I would like to offer my services in exchange for beer tickets. Are you looking for print design of logos, corporate packages, advertisements or posters? How about the layout production of books, magazines or reports? Maybe a little photo restoration? Wanting your business to catch up with the youngens and need some web design plus content management, search engine optimization, online ads and social network marketing?
I believe in timely, creative and effective design. Contact me with your design needs and target market. I can help you out. I’m available for freelance projects or if you would like to invite me to visit your design studio, I may be interested in joining your design team. Check out my portfolio pieces by clicking on the links below. ¡Salud!
Hi again. Im Brian. I live in Southern California, in this little city known as San Diego. More specifically, in City Heights, or East San Diego. City Heights is the most ethnically diverse area in San Diego. Im told theres over sixty languages and dialects spoken fluently here. Its been amazing experiencing so many cultures without having to travel the world. I enjoy new surroundings and meeting interesting folks. Everyone has a unique story that can never be replaced by Hollywood blockbusters.
There are a lot of fun community projects happening in San Diego. I help with a used bicycle repair co-operative project called Bikes del Pueblo. We set up on Saturdays at the City Heights Farmers Market, which itself is a great project bringing the diversity of the neighborhoods together to enjoy healthy local eats. The recently planted community garden is starting to sprout and is looking amazing. If you are ever in the area with a bike on the second Saturday of the month, stop by the Farmers Market early to ride the Bike Blast, a slow paced group bike ride around Mid-City to take in the community. I also work with a local non-profit bookshop. Even with the ease of access to the information on the Internet, I still find it important for tangible paper books to be shared. With that being said, Im also helping the bookshop transform into a digital publisher. They also provide a space to traveling authors passing through San Diego for informal book readings and discussions.
When I do leave my neighborhood, I prefer to go by bicycle. San Diegos weather and streets set to grid make it a convenient city to get around in. Outside the city provides weekend hiking and camping trips to Anza-Borrego Desert, Salvation Mountain and other nearby parks. Nearby Tijuana supplies options for traveling the Americas south of the border.
I have been an advocate of independent media for many years. Photocopied fanzines filled with music reviews, cruelty-free recipes, news, politics and art sparked my interest in media as a youth and inspired me to get involved in the production of media. I see new media as having the possibility of succeeding where traditional media has botched. Providing access to information and from a variety of views.
I attend a media arts school that emphasizes creative, attractive design of new media. Aesthetics play a vital role in the development of new media. High-tech, fast-paced culture with access to unlimited amounts of quick information means catching a consumers attention is just as important as the information itself.
Eight Months DVD Case
Produced as an eco-friendly packaging prototype for a recently released documentary. Completed as non-destructive to the original images in Photoshop with the use of layer effects, smart filters and vector masks. Selections were saved with channels and paths. Took advantage of multiple blending modes to create the textured look. The die-strike was created in Illustrator. Compiled, added body copy and output with InDesign using the Myriad Pro font.
Citibank Direct Mail
Targeting the young professional demographic, this direct mail piece uses a Ben Franklin to call attention and teases the offer on the cover. It was kept clean using the corporate colors and by playing on the logo. The money clip is an original, formed with various gradients along separated paths in Photoshop. Stock photography needed the colors matched and adjusted. Illustrator was used for the die-strike. Quark Xpress was used to compile, add body copy and output. Student project.
Groundwork Benefit Poster
Concert poster for a benefit show at the Che Cafe. The focal point was created by filtering an alpha channel with Photoshop. Brush techniques used with layer masks for a scratched look. Use of blending modes for "aging" of the poster. Demographic for this event was college aged adults with an emphasis on Latin@ and Chican@, bilingual students. An animated, color-morphing low-res version went with the outreach of the event for social network promotion. Have you ever seen a cuter Chupacabra? The event was successful.
Independent Film Forum Magazine Insert
This faux film forum insert was designed with hue and saturation adjustments on the stock photos, bevel and emboss effects over multiple layer blending modes for the logo and brushing for highlighting the body copy. Futura is the common font in the piece. It was created as non-destructive to the original photographic elements in Photoshop. Layout was produced in InDesign and the die-strike was constructed in Illustrator. Three sponsor logos displayed to recognize co-op advertising.
Element Fashion Ad Concept
Setup in Photoshop to be non-destructive to the stock photographs in use and for quick editing. Smart filters, layer masks and additional channels allowed selections and colors to be easily remixed. Original model photo needed editing and color matching to fit the background. Healing brush used on selections to merge model with marsupial. School project.
Groundwork Film Screening Poster
The films distribution company released the original photo with the screening kit. I vectorized it with paths in Illustrator and dropped it into Photoshop. Where I saved paths as selections to frame the illustrated photo with the rays. Then used gradients with layer masks on each individual ray to control the length. Portago is the font used for the logo and Futura for the body copy.
Johnny Cash CD Redesign
This school project involved bevel and emboss effects with filters for stone texture of type, layer masks to put Johnny in the new environment, brushing for shadows and color matching of multiple photographic elements from different time periods. I must have listended to "Jackson" a hundred times during this project. Georgia is the font for body copy here.
Groundwork Celebrate Womyns Day Poster
Vector illustrated an aged hand drawn tree image with Illustrator. Brought it into Photoshop with background texture displayed with blending modes. The design is mimicking Cold War era political propaganda. The font used is Poplar.
Vestas Annual Report
InDesign master pages and paragraph styles were setup to keep the documents pages conformed to a shared design. Folio Std Light was used throughout the report to make it easy to read and fill with plenty of type. Photoshop was used for the color correction of photos and dot designs were shaped by gapping the brush then step and repeat followed by a gradient on the layer mask. School project.
Groundwork Books E-Commerce
This webpage is set to launch in the Fall. Designed in Photoshop then coded with Dreamweaver and by hand. Running on all open source: installed osCommerce as the Content Managment System on an Apache web server with mySQL databases and PHP content. Currently importing the 1000+ products that will be available. HTML and CSS coded to W3C standards and validated prior to converging with the PHP files. Use of Javascript for clean popup windows. Directed a strategy for search engine optimization.
Brian Myers Portfolio
This one looks familiar, eh? Developed for myself to display my completed projects. I wanted the design to be fun, personal and look different than other portfolios I have browsed online. Will it pay off? Only time will tell... While it has 20+ "pages" I designed and coded it with only the index file and an external css file by using named anchors. The code validates, minus the embedded video files.
Media Arts Center San Diego Spring Break Media Camp
Report of spring camp, used as promotion of future camps.
Media Arts Center San Diego Tommy Hanna
Edited the hour long interview to a three minute short story as part of the People's Post digital stories.
Scar Media BioJustice 2008
Compilation of video footage shot by activists during two days of protests in San Diego. Edited with Final Cut Pro for the Scar Media Collective.
Scar Media Wobblies March Hillcrest
Filmed with JVC DV500U digital video camera and edited with Final Cut Pro for the Scar Media Collective. Broadcast via satellite on the IndyMedia Newsreel on FreeSpeechTV.
Tripfilms Asmara
Part of a series of shorts I was commissioned to film and edit for Tripfilms. Filmed with a prosumer model digital video camera and edited with Final Cut Pro.