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A 21 x 9 inch illustration which appeared on the cover of the The National Post's Arts & life section.Illustration, Character Design, Cartooning2011 -
Poet Winter Fedyk's work is dark and beautiful. I was thrilled to be given complete artistic freedom on this book cover.Art Direction, Graphic Design, Illustration2011 -
A gig poster for the band WCR.Illustration, Graphic Design, Character Design2011 -
A logo/mascot design for a boys basketball team in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The brief was simple. "These boys don't want to have a gopher for a mascot." Using a basketball as the basis for an aggressive dog's face with a graffiti-inspired type treatment, this logo was enthusiastically received by the team. Despite the level of detail, the logo scales well and translates to black and white easily.Illustration, Graphic Design, Character Design2011 -
Saskatchewan Interactive Media Association's (SIMA) goal was to have it feel timeless, official and established.
When one creates a visual identity that is going to represent an industry which works with cutting edge technologies, there is a real danger of creating an image which is trendy and therefore, dates easily...and this is exactly what happened with their previous logo.
SIMA represents people and business in a number of different digital media fields including animation, fine arts, designers, developers, programmers, and many others. The commonalities between ALL these fields are very few. Two that I identified are "people" and "technology".
To depict people, their ideas, and their creativity, I used a grey circle which represents a brain. To suggest the technology side of the fields, I used a white square. this represents a pixel. By stacking these two shapes, we get an interesting glowing effect, even when the logo is printed. The fact that this spectrum of fields uses a industries of a wide, colourful spectrum of technology is illustrated in the uppercase "I" which is created using a number of colourful rectangles.
The result is a logo which met all the requirements and was enthusiastically received by the client.Art Direction, Design, Graphic Design2011 -
An illustration of Fidel CastroIllustration, Typography2011 -
Various greeting card designsIllustration, Character Design, Design2008 -
Design, typography, and illustration on a bottle label for a promotional beer.Illustration, Graphic Design, Typography2011 -
Concept illustrations for a clothing companyIllustration, Character Design2008 -
A personal piece about creativity.Illustration, Fine Arts, Graphic Design2011 -
A spot illustration for Kayak magazine. The piece told the story of a young girl who cut her hair and pretended to be a boy to play hockey.Illustration, Cartooning2011 -
A brochure design, including illustrations, for an energy efficiency program.Illustration, Graphic Design, Design2011 -
A poster/digital invite to a multi-event party.Illustration, Typography, Graphic Design2011 -
Graham Barker started a consulting company and needed a visual identity which reflects his experience and his wisdom.Graphic Design, Art Direction, Design2011 -
A personal piece reflecting my happiness to fly home after a long time abroad.Illustration, Character Design, Cartooning2011 -
A personal illustration of the Marvel super hero, Iron Man.Illustration, Character Design, Cartooning2011 -
An illustration of my favourite comic character, Batman.Illustration, Character Design, Cartooning2011 -
Ecospection provides home energy efficiency evaluations. They needed an identity and business card which had an approachable, environmentally
friendly look.Graphic Design, Art Direction, Design2011 -
A personal piece based on a children's show, Mr. Dressup.Illustration, Fine Arts, Typography2011 -
A "save the date" pre-invite for the Council of the Federation of Canadian Premiers' children.Illustration, Character Design, Graphic Design2011 -
I've Got a Mole - Character DesignsIllustration, Character Design, Animation2008 -
A personal illustration used in a pregnancy announcement to friends.Illustration2011 -
A concept piece for a local seatbelt campaign.Illustration, Typography, Graphic Design2011
Unless otherwise noted, all works © Chad Geran 2011. Do not reproduce without the expressed written consent of Chad Geran.
