Sparklemartian Designs

Logo and Flyer Design

2011-08-20T18:38:00.000-07:00

MetroKIDS has an amazing ministry called "Clothesline for a Cause" which enlists the help of the children to help other kids across the globe. The latest cause is shown in this flyer: sending school supplies to the children of Africa. Logo and flyer both created in Illustrator.

Flyer Design

2011-08-17T17:37:00.000-07:00

This flyer was created to promote a ministry to send crayons and coloring books to the children in Haiti. Such a great idea, and an awesome way to make the kids feel involved!

Flyer Design

2011-08-17T17:27:00.000-07:00

I feel very blessed in being able to serve the MetroKIDS ministry at my church, Metro South, by creating flyers and various other design work for them. The concept for this "Weird" flyer was presented to me based on another design. Created in Illustrator.

Poster Design

2011-03-05T16:28:00.000-08:00

My friend Emma approached me and asked me to design a poster for this spectacular play that she had written. She had a vision in her mind for what she wanted, and I was honored to make it come to life for her. This was a very fun project that I was glad to be a part of!

Wedding Invitation Design

2011-02-28T19:26:00.001-08:00

Front/Inside of wedding invitations. Names and other information changed for privacy :)

Magazine Design

2011-02-16T13:25:00.000-08:00

Back/Front Covers:

Inside Cover/First Page:

Centerfold:

Fourth Page/Inside Back Cover:

This was actually a gift for my friends, whose son (my favoritest baby nephew!) just turned 1. It was a mini-magazine, printed on 3 sheets of high-gloss paper. I blocked out some names for privacy, but then realized I forgot to do that to the cover...ha, oh well. This was all done in Photoshop, as I've yet to be reacquainted with In Design :)

Logo and Business Card Design

2011-02-16T13:12:00.000-08:00

This was a logo and business card design created for a local interior designer (who also happens to be my sister, lucky her ;) If you live in the Farmington Hills area you should definitely give her a call :)

Poster Design

2011-02-16T13:08:00.000-08:00

Very simple and elegant design that was also a request from a friend. Print was 4x12 inches.

Poster Design

2011-02-16T13:05:00.000-08:00

This project was a request from a friend, she wanted it as a gift for her daughter. Final image was 18x24 inches.

O Lovely Glowworm poster

2010-02-09T17:27:00.000-08:00

I was approached by a friend who was production manager of a play at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I was asked to both design a logo and create a poster. Here is the result :)

David Lassos the Moon

2010-02-09T17:25:00.000-08:00

A friend of mine, whose favorite movie happens to be It's a Wonderful Life, approached me with a special project. She wanted to recreate the "George Lassos the Moon" picture in the movie, with a few tweaks. It was to be a gift for her firefighter husband. It turned out pretty well!

Air Force T-shirts

2010-02-09T17:05:00.000-08:00

I have 2 nephews and a niece in the Air Force, so naturally our family is filled with pride. I designed these t-shirts as Christmas gifts for my sisters and brother-in-law and got them printed at Zazzle.com

Design 1:

Design 1 shirt:

Design 2 front:

Design 2 back:

Design 2 shirt:

Design 3:

Everything but the Movie packages

2010-02-09T16:33:00.000-08:00

Last year Neptune Rising launched a special campaign to show support of a Veronica Mars movie. It was called "Everything but the Movie." We sent out nifty little packages to Warner Bros, Rob Thomas, Joel Silver, Craig Ferguson, and Ellen DeGeneres.

We included microwave popcorn, candy, and our faux-Veronica Mars tickets - point being, we have everything we need for a movie - except the movie itself. The centerpiece of the whole thing was a mini-magazine designed by yours truly :) We never got a response back, but it still turned out very well. (***Note: there were additional packages sent out, but since this is my design blog, I'm only including what I designed for. You can get more info at SaveVeronicaMars.tv!)

The three cover designs:

Front/back cover:

Inside cover/second page:

Centerfold:

Fifth page/inside back cover:
*I designed the 2 ads on page 5.
**Neptune Rising member Sarah Jaime designed this poster.

EBTM packages:

Veronica Mars Movie Ticket

2009-07-05T19:09:00.001-07:00

A fake movie ticket that I created to be used in campaigning for a Veronica Mars movie.

Neptune Rising Valentines

2009-07-05T19:01:00.001-07:00

This wasn't so much a campaign as it was just something fun to make that forum members could give out to friends and family, and if they chose, send out to Veronica Mars cast and crew.

Four designs:

Back:

Members were encouraged to make the cards as "tacky" as possible keeping in tradition with the typical Valentines passed out in grade school. My example:

Neptune Rising 2009 Calendar

2009-07-05T18:31:00.000-07:00

This was a huge project that I was very proud to be in charge of. Various members contributed by doing their own artwork. Unless otherwise stated, the images below were created by myself :)

COVER:

JANUARY:

**created by user amandalusian

FEBRUARY:

MARCH:

**co-created and designed with amandalusian

APRIL:

**created by user tarzan

MAY:

JUNE:

JULY:

**Designed by amandalusian

AUGUST:

**Created by user bumblebee

SEPTEMBER:

OCTOBER:

NOVEMBER:

**Created by user Forever_Mars

DECEMBER:

Neptune Rising Christmas Card Campaign

2009-07-05T18:10:00.000-07:00

These cards were sent to Veronica Mars cast and crew, as well as to the powers that be at the WB. They were created to be very simple for those sending them, just print, fold and send. I'm not including the entire files here, however, just the front cover.

Text inside: Wishing you and yours a safe and wonderful holiday season, and a very happy new year.

Text inside: Wishing you a happy holiday season and an amazing new year!

Text inside: Who wants you to have a wonderful holiday season? I do, I do!

***Background images from sxc.hu

Rock the Ratings logo remixes

2009-07-05T17:59:00.001-07:00

Myspace default photos created for the spring and summer.

Rock the Ratings logo

2009-07-05T17:32:00.000-07:00

Along the lines of Neptune Rising, Rock the Ratings aims to raise the ratings and aid the campaigns of many television shows. Here is the logo I designed for RTR.

Neptune Rising logo

2009-07-05T17:24:00.000-07:00

This is a logo redesign for a group that I am very much involved in, graphically and otherwise, called "Neptune Rising". This group is full of wonderful people dedicated to the cause of bringing back the television show Veronica Mars in any way, shape or form. For more information, visit the links below!

SaveVeronicaMars.tv
NeptuneRising.FreeForums.org
Twitter.com/NeptuneRising

Express Yourself Designs Logo and Business Cards

2009-07-05T17:00:00.000-07:00

This is the logo design I made for my sister's interior designing, and the business card design that I created. Pretty snazzy, eh? ;)

(Non-existent) Magazine Design

2009-07-02T16:24:00.000-07:00

This was for an assignment to design a cover and spread for a made up magazine.

Entertainment Weekly Magazine Design

2009-07-02T16:14:00.000-07:00

We were given an assignment to redesign an existing magazine cover, and a spread within the magazine. Unfortunately, the original files were lost, so these were created from a photograph taken of the printed pieces.

Graduate Bulletin Design Contest

2009-07-02T15:57:00.000-07:00

One of my classes had a contest to design the next Graduate Bulletin at my school. The winner was well-deserving, but I am happy with the work I have done!

Front and Back:

Title Page:

CD Label:

Invitations: Wedding

2009-06-30T20:15:00.001-07:00

Wedding invites designed to look good at a low cost! Printed in black and white on blue paper. Information changed for privacy.

Front:

Inside:

Invitations: Movie Night

2009-06-30T20:05:00.000-07:00

I created these invitations for a horror movie night my friends and I were planning. We printed large copies to hang around the house like old time horror movie posters!

Invitations: Graduation

2009-06-30T19:48:00.000-07:00

I created these invitations for a 3-way graduation party for myself, my niece, and my nephew. The fold was off-center to reveal the "Class of 2008" on the inside and the outside. (Graduation colors: Red/White, Blue/White, Blue/Gold). The information inside was changed for privacy!

Front:

Inside:

Big 3 Ad Campaign

2009-06-29T18:03:00.000-07:00

We had a group assignment to create an ad campaign for the Big 3, in order to try to get everybody to buy from the American companies. All the facts in these ads are true, nothing was made up.

I created the ad which focused on GM:

My partners and friends created the ads for Ford and Chrysler:

Packaging Design: Post-Its

2009-06-29T17:51:00.000-07:00

While designing new packaging for a product (I chose Post-Its), I also came up with a new slogan. "Live. Laugh. Love. Inspire" and each package would reflect one of the four.

Book Cover Design

2009-06-29T17:35:00.000-07:00

This was one of the most enjoyable assignments that I've had. We had to do cover designs for an existing biography, non-fiction, and fiction books. We were required to do 2 covers for each book, one using photos, one using typography.

A Child Called It

Please Stop Laughing at Me

The Drowning Tree

Logo Redesign and Use: Pocket Books

2009-06-29T17:22:00.000-07:00

For this assignment, we had to choose an existing company and redesign their logo, and then use the new logo for advertising, a company letterhead, etc. In my research, I found that Pocket Books had gone through a few different redesigns, but people tend to prefer the little kangaroo. I kept this in mind when I did the redesign, and incorporated it on the business card, letterhead, and bookmark.

Logo Design and Use: Olympics

2009-06-29T17:13:00.000-07:00

We had an assignment to create a logo for the 2008 Olympics, and to then use the logo in a poster for a sport of our choosing. Here is how mine turned out!

CD Design

2009-06-29T17:03:00.000-07:00

This was an assignment to design a greatest hits CD by our favorite band. Of course, I chose Bowling for Soup! The images aren't exactly what I was going for, but then I didn't have the opportunity to sit in on a photoshoot with them :)

CD Cover:

CD Back:

**At this time I can't locate the remaining files for this project, but these are the 2 most important anyway!

Midol Ad (for kicks)

2009-06-29T16:59:00.000-07:00

This was just a warm-up type exercise, but it still makes me laugh :)

Advertising Assignment: Gym

2009-06-29T16:47:00.000-07:00

In Fall of 2007 I had a class where we had an assignment to create ads for a gym that included a magazine ad, a poster, and a billboard.

Billboard:

Poster:

Magazine Ad: