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The Graphic Design Portfolio of Alan Ballard

Archive for February, 2009

GetVitals Website

Posted by Alan On February - 27 - 2009
GetVitals web design

GetVitals web design

GetVitals.com is a brainchild of the guys I work with at ProWorks Corporation. It is a really cool person and organization search tool that weeds out all the crap you would possibly get from a regular Google search. GetVitals speed-reads all the relevant pages and spits back only the good nuggets of info that you can save and manage. My responsibilities on this project were to create the entire identity and design throughout the site, and implement it into HTML / CSS.

Jurassic Moon

Posted by Alan On February - 26 - 2009
Jurassic Moon model

Jurassic Moon model

This spacescape is a rendering of the Earth and Moon during the Early Jurassic period, according to and for lunarorigin.com. The challenge was to create an ultra-realistic scene while adhering to Tom Powell’s vision of how the Moon looked at that stage, with lava-filled basins and a much closer distance to the Earth.

Check out a close-up shot of the Moon

Stylistic Huddled Family

Posted by Alan On February - 26 - 2009

Family sketch

Family sketch

This is a sketch I did in 2007 of a huddled family made of circular and linear elements. The sketch started, as many of mine do, as just random expressive curves and lines. The idea materialized in the process and I then refined the drawing into the huddled family, as I see it. If you see something else then you’re right too!

And Then it Was

Posted by Alan On February - 26 - 2009
And Then it Was

And Then it Was

This lithograph print was created on a slab of limestone. The technique is called “reduction”, where the slab is covered in ink to start with, and the artwork is scraped away with a knife. The process is quite volatile (for me anyway) and I only managed 3 prints from this edition.

Fusion Football Logo

Posted by Alan On February - 25 - 2009
Fusion Football Team Logo

Fusion Football Team Logo

This logo was created for my indoor soccer team, Fusion FC. We wear this logo on our jerseys, captains jacket, and even our beer mugs!

Freedom

Posted by Alan On February - 25 - 2009

 

Freedom

Freedom

This one takes mortality and freedom and mixes those themes in an edgy, mash-up design.

Below is the original, full vector compilation before cropping and Photoshop finished touches.

 

Freedom Original

Freedom Original

 

St. Clare

Posted by Alan On February - 25 - 2009

 

St. Clare

St. Clare

 

 

St. Clare is a lithograph made on a huge chunk of limestone. 9 prints came out of this edition, and this particular one I colored in pencils. St. Clare has done away with her traditional secular surroundings and replaced them with a kickin’ sound system and an iPod Classic. Putti follow in cue with the headphones.