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Cross Country Shirt Designs: 2010

Fuzzy — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:40:56 +0000

Now that the cross country season is wrapping up it’s time to reflect… on the shirt designs. I put together a few designs for the West Noble Middle School team as well as the West Noble Invitational. Here you can see the finished designs in shirt form:

2010 XC shirts

West Noble Middle School Cross Country

West Noble Cross Country 2010

The WNMS team shirt design was one of a few different ideas. I downloaded a font called “electric feel” from dafont.com and it made for an interesting design when it was placed on top of the big WN. Done in Illustrator CS4.

2010 West Noble Invitational

2010 West Noble Invite

I created a few different ideas for the Invite design. The arrow design was the one that the Shirt Shack liked best. I’ve been working with them to create some of their other shirt designs as well. The meet took place on September 18th. West Noble did well, probably due to their fantastic team shirts… Adobe Illustrator CS4.

New Site Design Released

Fuzzy — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:20:19 +0000

Unless you are reading this blog’s feed you probably have noticed that the blog and the rest of ArtByFuzzy.com has been redesigned. I decided to go with an a fluid layout and monochromatic color scheme with big, bold text. I decided that the main purpose of my site is to show off my artwork. Therefore, the images should be the part of the page that stands out and the text should be secondary but easy to read.

I created a child theme for the WordPress theme framework called Thematic. Eventually I hope to clean up the child theme, which I call Basic Gray and release it to the public. Its pretty simple and I’m sure it will improve over time but it accomplishes what I need right now.

After creating a WordPress theme for the blog I just transferred most of CSS code to a new style sheet to use for the static pages of the site. I also broke the site into subdomains based on medium. So now my ceramic work will be found at www.clay.artbyfuzzy.com.

I know there will be some bugs to work out and I’m working on filling in some more content. Eventually there will be a full gallery and all the links will work like they’re supposed to. If you have any constructive criticism or questions let me know.

Site Redesign Preview

Fuzzy — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:09:30 +0000

For the past couple days I’ve been working on a new design for the site. So far I’ve got the blog about 80% the way I want it. Here’s a quick preview:

New gray theme

Check again in a week or so and you should see some more progress.

In related news, the whole month of July has slipped by without so much as a peep from the blog… Don’t worry, I’ve been stockpiling news stories. Hopefully they will be released before I have to go back to school!

Shirt Designs: Track & Field 2010

Fuzzy — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:39:04 +0000

The 2010 WN Middle School track team had an amazing season finishing 9-0 in dual meets, champions of the Westview Invitational, and….. LLC Conference Champions!!!! I would like to think it was all because of the shirt design…. Or maybe it was the fantastic coaching staff? Okay, in reality we had a really great group of 8th grade athletes to lead the way to an undefeated season.

Here is an early shirt design which was created in Adobe Illustrator CS4:

2010 Track Shirt Design

Here are photos of the actual shirts:

Team Shirt 2010

Conference Champions Shirt

The boys voted for yellow team shirts but the design looks even better on gray.

Pottery Making Info

Fuzzy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:58:49 +0000

Online Tools for Making Pottery and Ceramic Art

A while ago I started a little side project using Google sites and Google Custom Search. It was a tool to find pottery making information easier. It seemed to go pretty well so I decided to polish it up a bit and add a few new ideas. Now you can see a brand new pottery and ceramics site with some new tools at Pottery Making Info. Now it offers search engines, pottery feeds and a brand new design. There are some other ideas and features in the works but since it’s only a side project the going might be slow. For now it’s a place for me to learn more about how websites work and add interesting pottery resources as I find them. Some day I hope it might be a rather useful site for potters and ceramic artists.

West Noble Invite Shirts

Fuzzy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:22:29 +0000

Let the mass update begin… (stay tuned for a steady stream of updates about what I’ve kept myself busy with the last few months.)

I was asked to do a shirt design for the West Noble Cross Country Invitational a few months back. I can’t take credit for the color choice. I designed it in black and white and then the fine folks at Shepherd’s Shirt Shack did the hard part – choosing a color and printing the shirts. I didn’t get to take a picture of an actual shirt so the picture below is the black and white file turned color. In fact those might not even be the right colors but it should be close enough to give you the right idea…

Shirt design for the 2009 West Noble Invitational

Logo Project: Finished

Fuzzy — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:26:59 +0000

I was recently asked to create a logo for a new company in Nappanee called CHaSE Manufacturing. They manufacture doors and other wood items. The owners are really nice people and I had a great time working with them. Here you can see what we came up with.

CHaSE Manufacturing

As you can see they like the more spontaneous and whimsical marks. It was the first project that I created totally with Illustrator. I’ve used Freehand before but I thought I might explore Illustrator a bit more and see what it can do.

So now you can look forward to some pictures of a sink or two that I finished last week. Whenever I get back to the internet…