A New Face

After joining the Data Flow in March I was asked to design a few marketing ads. Data Flow is in the middle of changing its image from a business form provider to a full service graphic design company, offering a wide variety of print and promotional products. The first ad ran in the Amarillo Country Club directory. I used vintage and modern elements to create a simple typographic ad.

This ad introduced our new custom clothing and apparel services. We offer everything from tshirts to dress shirts with you custom embroidery or screen print. I stuck with the theme of the first ad but brightened it up with a fresh blue. This ad also has our new logo where we dropped the “DF” circle.

Below are envelope stuffers that are enclosed with every invoice we send out. I resized our ads and printed them on 14 pt. glossed coated covers.

With these fresh designs it will be easy to get the word out about the new face of Data Flow.

Free Inspiration #6

This week’s free image from shutterstock is an alphabet of ransom letters. Here’s the only good ransom I can think of. Enjoy.

Amigos 3rd Annual Car Show T-shirt

I got the chance to design a shirt for the 3rd annual Amigo’s Car Show. A quick google search will show several shirts featuring flames, metallic letters and multi-colored cars. Thats not exactly my style and I tried to get away from that.

The challenge what to design the shirt using only one color. So I went retro and tried to rise above all of the auto show design chaos.

Free Inspiration #5

The free vector on shutterstock featured several pairs of glasses. Some of them are instantly recognizable from film and television. Can you guess who?

License Plate Design Comes Full Circle

Ah, the original Texas license plate. So simple, so clear. Nobody would ever want to change it.

1969 – 1983

Fast forward to 1991. A Texas flag was added to the plates.

1991

Let’s not stop there, lets put more pretty pictures.

1999

Ok now its starting to get out of hand, in 2008, there was a contest where Texans could choose the look of the license plate. These were the choices.

Well as long as they dont choose the one with script font and a weird 90’s corner scribble.

2009

Oh, God no.

I almost cried the day I had to put these on my car. I have heard these referred to as hideous, an abomination, and just plain ugly. While I keep my comments to myself, I’ll just let you decide whether you would pay the extra money not to put this on your car.

2012

Thank you 2012! Texas has learned the error of its ways and has returned to a much simpler time. I am counting down the days when I can proudly put this on my car. I might even pay the $7.00 to get it earlier.

Moral of the story: Simpler design is always better design.