I’ve been busy for most of the summer strengthening my portfolio with two campaigns: Lava Soap and Southwest Airlines. You can view the artwork for each client by visiting my portfolio page or clicking the links below:
Lava Soap
Southwest Airlines
An Opportunity Apart
Also, something amazing happened to me in June while I was least expecting it. I [...]
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Summer Building
Monday, July 13th, 2009Internet Explorer
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009As some of you know, Internet Explorer 8 recently launched its stable version a little over two months ago (March 19, 2009). I find it particularly amusing and slightly sadistic that the Internet Explorer 8 homepage sports a link to IE6. Sadly, it is still available for download.
Retirement
Internet Explorer 6 launched on August 27, 2001 [...]
Identity Refresh
Friday, April 24th, 2009My old identity was extremely arbitrary and mildly embarrassing. The spaces in the letterforms served no purpose, and the typography, consequently, suffered greatly.
Hard Refresh
Conception
The inverted refresh icon fashioned to represent a capital G is immediately obvious, and the simplicity is intentional. I didn’t want anything overly complicated or “neat-o.” It needed to illustrate my passion [...]
Realign 2009
Friday, March 27th, 2009Since its launch in June 2008, the first functioning version of geoffthibeau.com has overgrown its original design. There were many features I wanted to add that were near impossible to implement seamlessly. The sidebar was quickly becoming a distraction, and dear old Bob had an embarrassingly misspelled balloon.
I had to rethink what I felt was [...]
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Thursday, January 15th, 2009SHAFR (SHAY-fer) for short. In November, I was hired by the Society to redesign their website and transform their web presence from a humble group of online historians into a thriving web-community of historians, educators, students, and the population at large.
With over 100 unique visitors per day since its beta launch on December 23, 2008, [...]
Google’s New Favicon
Sunday, January 11th, 2009What’s up with Google’s new favicon? It’s horrible. It’s somewhere between Simon Says™, Play-Doh™, and the London 2012 Olympic logo.
new
old
/Edit: Jan12 @10:40AM
Armin Vit shares my disgust.
Official Google Blog
36Point Student Design Challenge
Sunday, December 7th, 2008Being a fan of 36point.com, I was excited to find their student design competition a few months ago. I quickly decided which class (that I was enrolled in already) would be easiest to get away with their ridiculous rules. Ultimately, digital printmaking, being more of a studio elective than a design elective, was an obvious [...]
Book Assembly
Sunday, December 7th, 2008During finals in mid-November, I was required to make ten books and two cd cases. After completing a few, I decided to document the process.
Please read the entire process before purchasing materials.
Required materials: plain paper, masking tape, Super77, ruler, box-cutter or X-acto knife, surface to cut on (re-healing mat recommended), tape-glue dispenser, PVA glue or [...]
Think Tank ‘08
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Having joined AIGA two weeks ago, I wanted to see what sort of events were nearby and affordable. And thanks to Nate Voss and Donovan Beery’s podcast, I was introduced to Think Tank, which is presented and hosted by the Nashville AIGA chapter. So when I found out that Think Tank ’08 was in [...]
Underground Graphics
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008After a summer of absorbing web techniques, from both my internship at DTP and Google research, I’ve successfully built two websites using Wordpress as a backbone. And I feel pretty dang awesome about it, considering that is most likely better than 98% of my peers at Tech. One of those websites is this one; and [...]
