Lauri Shillings » illustration

Merry Christmas

lshillings — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 23:03:02 +0000

Too all, a very Merry Christmas. Hold all of mankind close to your heart tonight. Share your goodwill with one and all.

A new digital desktop calendar for November 2012

lshillings — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:21:07 +0000

I’ve taken to creating my own digital desktop calendars for my laptop and I thought I would share with you!

Here’s November, and I plan on making one each month until I have a complete collection.

The path less traveled

Hand making business cards

lshillings — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:55:27 +0000

There is a series of photos I’ve taken during business card creation. It is a hand stamped card with a seperate paper overlay that has the contact information.

Study of a rooster

lshillings — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:22:32 +0000

A recent study for graphic design II at Ivy Tech requires an extensive look at in subject in many medias. Here’s the start of my project of ‘rooster’.

Site of the day- creative nerds

lshillings — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:07:51 +0000

I recently searched for a tutorial on how to create vector illustrated flames and came across the site “Creative Nerds“.

I highly recommend it.

Brand recognition

lshillings — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:35:19 +0000

I went to my son’s 5th grade class today and spoke about being a graphic designer. It was career week at his school. I spoke on how most computer related games and websites required a graphic designer’s skills. I Also talked to them about brand recognition, print, and typography. Amazing how well mass marketing can effect a child. They recognized 10 logos that were displayed as only a portion of it- such as the wal-mart asterisk, and Taco Bell’s “bell”. They had fun during this easy test. At least they didn’t fall asleep.
I created a website for the 5th grade class according to some of their preferences.
Fifth Grade Site

I made a flash site for them as well using the same basic layout and links.
Fifth Grade Flash Site

Tea Box Template

lshillings — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:54:15 +0000

Tea Box Template

This is being transitioned over from a previous blog.

In honor of all those folks who work hard and let me download their templates, here’s one for you!
My deconstructed tea box template. The original tea box was a bit larger, but I wanted to have it fit on a standard letter size piece of paper.

enjoy!