On Moving On and Other Notable Subjects

I am posting here today to announce the relaunch of my design site curtisedesign.com! Please point yourself over to check out some new updated work, some you may have seen posted here, some completely new.

On another note, you may notice this new site has a blog built in, and as so I will no long be posting to this blog. It was a nice run, over 160 posts, over 250 comments, all over the past year and a half. 

But now I will have a clean slate to work with, new topics, new ideas, new work, and hopefully anyone who reads or views my blog will join me over at my new site and give me comments of love!

See you on the flip side!

Post 160!

Lately I really suck at this blog thing, could life get any more busy?

Anywho, here is a fun thing I put together, maybe you will like it?  I did.

Design Friends

Hello friends and foes, I have all but completely and outrightly miss treated this blog as of late, but I promise these things will change in the near future for this poor neglected blog.

Until then, you can set your sets to a little blog contribution called Design-Friends me and my two friends from good ol' Art Institute, Danni and Mayra, are putting together and posting to twice a week.

Check out Danni and Mayra's blogs here and here (respectively).

I will be posting my first of hopefully many posts on that blog tomorrow night, but for now you can check out both posts by Danni and Mayra who seem to have made me look like a blog flake (as Mayra would put it).

Also, for now you can feast your eyes on my quick little design square I made for the blog tonight, my very first contribution!

See you all soon!

John Lennon + Beautiful Motion Graphics = Made my Day

Thanks to Stephanie and Sam for showing me this, please watch until the end.

It just gets better and better.

Retro Izzy

So I did this for the Threadless voting a little while back, but I never got to show it in its full glory, so here it is! Izzy goes Saved by the Bell.

Killer Robot Time

A little something extra to a post I made a little while back, hope you like it!

Lower Case T - Circa 5 Years Old

Little illustration I did that ultimately didn't get picked up, I still kinda like it though and hope you will as well.

Tarot Cards

Some modern Tarot card illustrations I worked on at work. Originally part of a bigger picture but I thought I would pull out the covers for your viewing pleasure. Please enjoy.

Propaganda

It's been a while, but here is a short series of posters I have been working on at work. Please enjoy.

It's been a while...

Life Under a R...

By Curtis Elliott

Book Preview

...and I apologize, I will try to relieve the fact that I have been the worstest blogger in the blog universe for the past month. But here I am today with a little update. As you will see above I am linking to my little book I did a while back...and you may wonder, "why is that?". Well, Blurb is now offering what I always wanted, a hardcover wrap print. What this means is that you no longer have to fuss with the dust jacket on the hardcover version (which is my most favorite kinda of book), the image is printed right there on the cover.

So go ahead, don't be afraid...buy one. Oh, and while your at it, buy me one too :) (help a broke guy out)

UT!!!

click to watch my loops I made! The first is good, the second sucks but I duno how to delete it.

Enjoy and make your own and share!

Rebel Yell

Look what we have here... a Threadless post? Must be the first in almost a year! Hope you like it, hope you vote on it, please give it high marks good fellows.

Check back to vote in the next few days when it's officially up for review.

In Case You Missed It...

Follow this link to pick up my shirt!

Oiler, The Bestest Cat in the World

Hello, and welcome to post 5 out of 5 of the childhood illustration series. This particular piece focuses on my childhood cat, who passed on last year at 17 years of age. She was the best cat to me even though she was quite grumpy when I was younger. Here she is depicted waiting outside the bathroom door like she often had done.

I hope you have enjoyed this series of illustrations, 5 illustration posts in 10 days coming to an end. Look forward to more posts in the future, and many other new things.

Shirt.Woot!

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday. If you would be ever so kind to direct yourself over to shirt.woot, you will see that I have my very first illustration up for sale on the site today and today only. If you would be ever so kind as to buy a few of these shirts and tell your friends the same I would think you were way cooler than I thought you were before you did so.

Thanks, and as always, please enjoy!

Fake Blood Packet

Hello there, post 4 of 5 in the childhood series.

Story goes as this: I thought it would be funny to smash a ketchup packet on my face and scream bloody murder whilst eating lunch at school in the 4th grade. Needless to say, no one thought it was very funny, my face smelt bad for the rest of the day, and I am permanently scarred for life. Please enjoy.

To be concluded...

Gumby!

Post three of the childhood series, Gumby defined my childhood.

Please enjoy.

Izzy says Hello!

Just for fun...

Jack in the Bike

Hello again, here is post number two of the childhood series. This one is representing my Jack in the Box childhood. As a child with two working parents me, my brother, and my sister would ride our bikes down to the local Jack in the Box and eat lunch pretty much everyday. To this day I'm pretty much still tired of everything on the menu. Thanks for stopping by, please enjoy.

Peanut Butter & Jelly Walkman

Hello, here we have an example of one the cheesier memories of yore. As a young pup I used to listen to my walkman and my one and only tape, the Olsen twins with there big hit, "Peanut Butter".

As mentioned on my good friend Steph's blog, we will be posting 5 illustrations in 10 days based on the concept of our childhood. Check back here and to her blog for more fun.

Please enjoy.

Something New

Some new things on the horizon, a new batch of design posts planned for next week. So fresh and so new. Also, working on a new website that is better to showcase my portfolio, to update, and which continues to show the newest of me. Hopefully in the near future I will have more time to work on projects and just all around become a better and better designer.

To kick off this chapter in my design life I changed things up around here, and am posting this little post.

Please enjoy.

Robotic Open House

A fun little diddy for you to see, Enjoy!

Open House?

Rejected comps that I still like, maybe they will be seen in different variations within other projects...because I believe they are more than rejects, that they are my children and they need to see the mail boxes of thousands of Ai students and stuff like that! Enjoy!

Glorious Bananas

Yeah, I have not a clue.

Chocolate Lab

Hello all, long time no see huh? Yep, I have been working on stuff lately, though it's been stuff I probably shouldn't post due to the fact it hasn't been finalized with the client as of yet. This is a t-shirt illustration I submitted to a freelance client that just wasn't what they were looking for, so I thought I would share it with you.

Enjoy!

Stuff I did at Work

And here is some stuff I did at work because I needed to post something because I am a sucky blogger lately, the end.

Portfolio Show Images

These are some images of me and my booth at the 2007 Winter Portfolio show, thought I would share them with you, enjoy!

Happy New Year

And here is to a great 2008...at least better than this crappy thing, enjoy!