Photos and illustrations created specifically for use on social media channels. These graphics are visible on the UPS Airlines' twitter handle @UPSLaunch, UPS's global social platforms including @UPS, the official UPS LinkedIn page, and the official UPS Facebook page.

When I started getting heavily into photography back in 2008, I was really into the art of the portrait. My interest in portrait photography and the study of lighting techniques led me to some interesting commissions for friends, and later ended up being a valuable resource at my day job, as budgets got crunched in the economic downturn. I even managed to win a Louisville Graphic Design Association Gold Award for my black and white photo for the United Way/UPS fundraiser.

Blurppy.com is a pop culture/entertainment website that is the brainchild of Don Thompson. I had the great fortune to meet Don at San Diego Comic Con 2013 and his excitement for all things pop culture rubs off on you. He is a strong supporter of pop culture artists and provides the opportunity for them to display their skills in what has become known as the Poster Posse.

Don’s themes for Poster Posse projects are new film releases with a new film selected about every 2 or 3 months. From there a huge following of artists try to out do each other for the challenge and fun of participating in a supportive artist community online. This is a look at both my Poster Posse submissions as well as exclusive releases featured on Blurppy.com.

Maintaining a good working relationship with clients can open up many new avenues. The one-sheet I created for Moonrise Kingdom’s theatrical release was a commission for Shortlist.com. It was used in an online gallery featuring several artists’ interpretations of the film’s movie poster. Thanks to a good relationship with the editors at Shortlist.com, they passed my information on to a product manager with NBCUniversal UK. The product manager was coordinating the promotion of the film’s release on DVD/Blu-Ray in the UK in October of 2012. My poster was used as a give-away item at promo events and I conducted an online interview with CreativeBloq.com about the poster.

The “For Your Consideration” ad for Moonrise Kingdom was part of an unrelated contest to create a promotional piece for the film going into Oscar nomination season. My design was a Grand Prize winner, which included a cash prize and the opportunity to have my ad used in the Oscar promotion of the film.

I have managed to turn my love for movies and the art of the movie one-sheet “posters” (for those not familiar with industry speak) into a steady stream of work from Shortlist.com and occasionally the print version, Shortlist Magazine. Shortlist is an entertainment website and magazine based out of the UK, which often helps promote film releases by asking artists to create their own version of the film’s release poster.

The challenge from the UPS Supply Chain global sales team was to re-invent the customer experience for their primary tour location housed in Louisville, KY. The new experience would need to highlight UPS Supply Chain’s pursuit of cutting-edge technology, and move away from the traditional PowerPoint sales presentation. After vetting several external vendors, it was determined that a custom solution could be built in-house utilizing the variety of skills available within our small team consisting of Michelle Polk, the project manager, Wes McDermott, the multimedia developer, and myself the visual designer. What you see here is the initial Phase 1 rollout of the presentation with basic functionality.

This customer experience is designed to allow the presenter the ability to create a story on the fly. When traversing the trays there are buttons that can be selected to bring up specific content related to each customer’s individual needs. The content ranges from montages of images of strategic locations, to full HD video, and even interactive 3D models. Not only was the challenge for our small team of 3 people to develop the presentation, but we were responsible for the executable content as well.

Simply, my idea was to combine design and custom, fan centric artwork with a calendar that highlighted every major football fan's passion, Game Day. So, it would function not just as a piece of artwork, but also a way to track your favorite team through their season.

The calendar would only consist of the months within the regular football season. In the case of college football that meant September, October, and November. The top portion of the calendar would be dedicated to a custom illustration and the bottom would be a traditional calendar, but with a slight twist. I centered the layout of the days on the calendar around Game Day which I placed smack-dab in the center. For Notre Dame's schedule, that meant that Saturday of each month through November became the center of the week.

Also in this space I gave specific information about where the team was playing (home or away), when, and against which team. I also wanted it to be a little interactive and fun by designing a space to place a sticker indicating whether they had (W)on or (L)ost as well as an area to record the games final score. At the end of the season you could either cut out the calendar dates and keep the illustration as a piece of artwork or keep the whole calendar as a memento of the entire season. I left enough room on the rest of the days of the week so that you could still write in events or appointments. To really hit home the idea of a quality designed product and to complete the overall experience of receiving the calendar, I created a cover to round out the design.

In early 2010 I got the itch to create my own unique wall calendar. This is a large format calendar designed specifically for my work cube. I wanted to go slightly retro in the overall feel, hence the rainbow colors and use of half circles, which were inspired by the phases of the moon. The final piece was custom printed at zazzle.com and later featured in the book, Save the Date: New Ideas and Approaches in Calendar Design published by Victionary Workshop Limited.