Oakridge Fellowship

I recently designed the banner for a group I am a part of called Oakridge Fellowship. The concept was to design a tree that branched out of Mjollnir, the symbol of Thor's hammer. The roots of the tree end as the antlers to a stag's head.

Heraldry

Recently, as part of a private commission I was asked to recreated several English coat of arms. It was a  gift to the client's father as part of a larger research project into her family's history. There were four in total, Pyke, Jewett, Gilbert and Woodman. 

By combining written descriptions and very low res imagery of the shields or just parts of the shields I recreated each one in illustrator. Each one had its own unique challenge depending on how much information was available and then of course making sure they all still worked with each other.

The end result was a 11 x 17 poster of each coat of arms with a description beneath. I hear that both she and her father are very happy! 

St. Ambrose Cellars

A little over a year ago I worked on a freelance job for St. Ambrose Cellars, a new mead and wine company, started by the owners of Sleeping Bear Farms. The design was based around the Melissa, the bee priestess/goddess from Greek Mythology. An avid fan of mead (having based my college senior thesis around the delicious, honey-based drink), as well as having home-brewed a couple small batches myself, I was excited to do the job.

I recently decided to check in on St. Ambrose Cellars and see how the they were doing and I was happy to see that they are doing quite well. Their site is beautiful and they have used my work I did for them in some quite amazing ways. Not only did they put it on the label for their Riesling wine but also on their corks and casks.

You can check out their site to see the label, cork (on the top banner) and the casks (in the slide show of pictures on the page) at http://www.stambrose-mead-wine.com/ .