Pottery, Photography, Design - Brandon "Fuzzy" Schwartz
I had a chance to come up with a shirt design for the 2012 West Noble Cross Country Invitational. I made about four different designs, two of them I really liked. There are 6 different shirt colors available including neon yellow, pink, blue, green and red.
The finished product:
2012 West Noble Invite Shirt
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 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 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.
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.
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
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The boys voted for yellow team shirts but the design looks even better on gray.
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…