Working on a graphic design project for my friends' church. They're in need of some promotional stuff for their college ministry and I'm working on some posters as well as their logo. Here's what I've got so far; I like it personally.

 

 

 

In working on the devEdge website, which will be up as soon as their owner returns from a trip to Africa, I figured I should make some boxes for their software. The thing is that distributed online software doesn't exactly have its own visual representation. It used to be that software came in shrink wrapped, pretty little boxes.

 

Now thanks to online distribution services like Steam your video games and development tools and word processors all come in streams of data that you can't and will never see. People don't like that when they're buying something, they want to know that what they're spending their money on is substantive. At least that's what I'm told... or what I figure. I can't tell or figure where I came up with this, but I'm pretty sure I'm right.

 

Either way you can't argue with results, and after playing around with some ideas this was a base design I came up with for their Blackberry software. It'll probably undergo some revisions, and I may make a more real-to-life Blackberry for the cover, but until then I'm pretty happy with my little box.

 

 

 

 

The Java development tools box looks pretty sweet too... I guess I'll show you that as well since we're on the subject.

 

 

There's a lot more you can do with this, I'm looking forward to playing with some ideas. 

 

I know I'm currently on v3 of the website but I'm already wanting to get back to the darker feel that I used to have... I have enough problems to work through without wanting to redo my website again but... well it's impossible to settle on mediocrity and it feels like I can do so much better. It's so much easier to make something satisfying for other people; I guess I'm weird.

 

Either way I'm working on capturing the original logo design that was in my head. Kind of late after printing off 250 business cards, but I may revise it in the future. Either way you can enjoy what I have for now and maybe someday you'll be pleasantly surprised to find it has taken its place at the top of your screen.

 

In a way I guess that's the fun of designing, you can always re-invent yourself. It'll happen someday =)

 

In the meantime I'm dreaming of Paris and wishing I was there right now... man I miss it.