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Sunday, September 13th, 2009Portfolio Update
Sunday, August 9th, 2009If you hadn’t noticed, I updated the Sapitot portfolio with a couple of new pieces last week. First up is Mike Grutka’s charming new album, Ria. This is the 3rd CD design in as many releases I’ve done for Mike. The challenge for this project was bringing the large amount of photos that Mike provided me of himself and locations in and around his home of Saratoga Springs, NY into a cohesive design. I used a moire pattern and bright, bold colors to give all the photos a common theme and thread throughout the digipack and 8 page booklet. The cover is below – you can view the rest of it in the Sapitot portfolio. We’re both really happy with how it turned out.
If you haven’t checked out Mike’s tunes before, this is a good release to start on. Ria is easily his most experimental, yet still poppy album and it has been on constant rotation on my iPod ever since he sent it to me. It’s available for digital download on his site now (mikegrutka.com) and the CD should be returning from the manufacturer in the coming week or so.
Another project still in the works is a logo/branding job I’m working on for Haute Dog Bows, an Arizona-based dog bow business who is looking for an upscale and girly look. Below is the logo created for them, along with the business card system. Next up is a dynamic, shopping cart enabled website. Stay tuned.
Poster in a Video
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Wow, long time no blog. I was doing pretty well with this, up until the past 6 months. Will catch everyone up to speed eventually. Anyway, the reason for this post…Harlem Shakes recently shot a very clever video for their crazy catchy song “Strictly Game”. If you’ve ever watched a pirated song on YouTube, you’ll totally get the parody concept. Quite genius and hilarious too. Keep your eyes peeled at around the 2 minute mark for a Sapitot contribution to the video. Came as a total surprise when I watched it for the first time. Kind of cool, cheggit out below.
Harlem Shakes – Strictly Game Video
I’ll be making some updates to this site soon, have a couple of new projects in the works that I’m excited to share.
Harlem Shakes Tour Poster
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009The Harlem Shakes approached me about doing a new tour poster for their upcoming tour with Tokyo Police Club and I was more than happy to oblige. Drawing themes from their upcoming first LP artwork, Technicolor Health, this is the end product. The print is 18×24, with 4 screens. Two versions are being printed of this design, one for sale while they are with TPC and one for when they head out on their own for a few weeks.
They also graciously gave me the LP in its entirety, and let me tell you, it’s ridiculously good…you’ll be hard pressed to get any of the hooks out of your head, just a fantastic CD. They seem to have tapped into the zeitgeist of the new presidential era, and will be soundtracking the foreseeable future for me. I’ll be very surprised if this doesn’t get quite a bit of buzz in the indie-sphere.
A few copies will be on sale here on Sapitot in a few weeks, or even better, pick up one when they come near your home town.
For more tour information, visit harlemshakes.com
uniquecss.com
Sunday, February 8th, 2009For the month of February, Sapitot is being featured in a poll for “site of the month” at Unique CSS. Head over to uniquecss.com and help vote us to the top!
So this is the New Year
Sunday, January 18th, 2009With the turning of a new year, figured it was time to spruce up around here, with the addition of a new work collage for the index page and some new recommendations in the “currently listening to” box on the right.
Over the course of the past month or so, I’ve been quietly adding some new pieces to the logo and collateral portfolios in the print section. Sapitot has several new freelance projects on the horizon, which I’ll be excited to share once completed.
Link Love
Monday, January 12th, 2009Sapitot has recently been getting some link love from the world’s CSS aggregate sites. Below are links to sites that are featuring Sapitot. Thought I would return the favor and give them a link back. Check out these great sources of inspiration.
luvthatdesign.com – Sapitot is a featured site!
my3w.org
cssburst.com
foliostars.net
quandtnet.de
rgbgarden.com
csscount.com
css-design-yorkshire.com
bestcssdesign.com
cssstar.com
mabucplus.com
css-imagine.com
csscookie.com
pixelcss.es
yoursiteisvalid.com
csssnap.com
onecss.com
cssblaze.com
cssseason.com
styletheweb.com
csspig.com
Portfolio Post Up – Part 2
Saturday, September 20th, 2008As promised, I uploaded more new work to the Print portfolio today. Just posted a new postcard for Bizarre Foods and some type concepts done for a Anthony Bourdain break erosion spot.
Enjoy
Portfolio Post Up
Monday, September 15th, 2008Just posted up some new pieces of work that I’ve been working on since joining the Travel Channel, in the logo and collateral sections under the Print tab. It’s been fun to work on new and upcoming show promotion and getting to know the brand at a deeper level. A couple more pieces will be added in the coming days.
On the freelance front, working on a complete business system for a furniture business, as well as lining up a couple of web sites and CD packaging projects. Will share as the work is completed.
Semmering Studios Dot Com
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Sapitot Creative is proud to announce the launch of the Semmering Studios website, version 1.0. Semmering is a photography studio based in Kansas City, run by Sionnie LaFollette, wife of another Sapitot client, Mr. Khorky Custer Khrusty himself (pictured above in all his gold glory)! Granted, this version is a very small mini-site at the moment, but further development into a full portfolio site will occur in the near future. Many thanks to Brian Schilt for his outstanding coding work, excellent job as always!
You can check out the beginnings of the site here, www.semmeringstudios.com
Currently listening to: Sigur Rós – með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust