all hallow's eve

here is my halloween menu, as some of you may have seen from my twitter post. the zombie theme never fails. it's hard to capture in the digital version, but the document was folded in half, with the white block being a cutout. so the first page says "all hallow's eve," opening to the course list and the zombie picture. the back page lists thank yous.

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i'm really pleased with the way these turned out. i'm grateful to be able to do work for entre and hope to continue producing menus in the future.

the more perceptive of you will note that i've finally settled on a name for my freelance work: archetype design (in reference to my namesake's contribution to psychology). what do you think?

halloween brainstorming

ok, so here are a couple of side projects i did while working on my menu ideas. one is my own strange, satirical view of things that scare me. it's a bit over the top...but what's not terrifying about a giant tv in a church?

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the other is an idea i had for the menu, but didn't think the zombies would work as well as some of my other ideas. it's a total rip off from the new dawn of the dead. but the image works so well, i couldn't resist.

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design work

at this point, this blog is beginning to feel anemic. i'm finally starting to debate whether to even bother with it anymore. but in the meantime, i'll post some work i've been doing for a friend's restaurant. i tried to simulate the paper we printed on. so it looks a little different than the original design, but at least you get an idea against a color background.

9.12.09

the venue was rustic italian, served in a cellar (circa early 19th century).

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10.3.09

this menu was asian-inspired (literally, by the entire continent!). we found this really cool salmon colored paper, with a nice wood texture. it looked really cool when the lines of the "grain" showed through the printer toner. unfortunately, some had trouble reading it. what looks interesting isn't always practical.

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i'm currently racking my brain for the nucleus of horror for their halloween menu. i've got a few ideas thrown together, but i'd love to hear any of your suggestions. it's a competition between myself and a printing company who actually knows what they're doing, so i don't have much hope. regardless, i'm pretty excited to compete.

all hallows eve

halloween is different here. growing up, i used to a little fanfare on the front lawn, similar to the image at right. a jack-o-lantern, maybe a ghost. the weird families might have a witches' cauldron on the porch.

here, the house at the right is the minority. these families are butchering bodies on the front lawn in the name of all hallows cheer, see below.



seriously, those are heads on stakes! maybe they hate trick or treaters so much that they've placed the embalmed, severed heads of last year's victims in the front yard to ward off any newcomers--richard the lionheart style.














because everyone needs a good graveyard at their stoop...and a weird einstein mask on their lion statue.















whoa there! giant spiders!?

if those things lay eggs...















a ghoul's ball! this one is pretty awesome, except that the ghosts look like little klan members 'dancing' in front of someone's house--yikes.














this one is actually not that amazing. but usually that orange thing is a giant pumpkin. it drives franny crazy. the skeleton coming out of the ground doesn't make her happy either. she stares at it pensively when we walk by.











this freak show is the masterpiece. i couldn't capture it all in one shot and even multiples don't do it justice. see the video below. yes, that is theme music you hear in the background. people live here.













do you think they call their house "haunted valley?" i hope so.