Excellent thread! I will rummage through some of my finished stuff and post them here

digital mockup:




actual piece (crappy point and shot camera - the red is deeper more cherry red, prettier in person):

Really nice LFM.

a bottle label for a Mead that will be produced for the American Homebrewer's Conference and National Homebrew Competition in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA in just about a months time.

The illustration of the piggy and fireball are made from bits of the font I used in the title. It's called LHF Jami (from Letterheadfonts.com).

As a little background.... Cincinnati was the major pork producing town in the US back in the 1800s, leading it to have been nicknamed Porkopolis. Today we have lure of flying pigs and they are represented around town in various forms. Our yearly marathon is called the Flying Pig, we have statues of them around the city and they even appear on the top posts of the Roebling Suspension Bridge that crosses the Ohio River. In fact, our bridge was the model for the Brooklyn Bridge designed by John Roebling some 15 years later! (and now you know the rest of the story!)

I was going to ask that question !

Yeah, I like the simplicity. It looks very prestigious

Biff said...LFM, as a question, why did you decide to not make the letterforms for the W and M in the card symmetrical?

chris said...me too!
nice though, innit. that red looks like it will mark your hands it's that red and i'm digging the simplicity of it and the emboss.
~phones lfm

Biff, I had versions where I tried it, but in the end it always felt forced and the letters fell flat when placed side by side, so I decided to honor the characteristics of the M and the W individually - treat them like a couple dancing, rather than mirror images, and encase them in the rectangle - like a snapshot of them on their own little dance floor if you will.

Chris, the embosser I ordered from a company in California that is simply excellent - I ordered it on Monday, it arrived Saturday. I also used this same company for my wedding, so I had the embosser and only had to order another plate for it - so yes all my cards will be hand-embossed, but this also allows me to use the embosser on other stuff.

Peak, I do a bit of freelance, but this is part of my package to get a new job at an agency. I've done the corporate in-house gig for over 5 years now and I'm in need of a new challenge, some place I can push and grow and live up to my potential. I have an envelopment for my resume and card that matches the card (with emboss) - I promise pics when it's done and over the next couple weeks I'm sure I'll be posting a bunch as I get my website pulled together - I'll be looking for honest feedback from my fazy friends.

:angry smilie:

nicko, looks good!

Scarily tight deadline = stock photography this time

no, the concept (one third of a building's carbon footprint...) came first. There were a number of other expressions of the same concept. The client went for the one shown.

Thanks for the positive feedback... making drylining even slightly interesting can be a challenge

nice one, nicko

haha, very nice jussi ! (as usual)

jussi, i love you.

Chris, I love you too. I think it is time for us to take our relationship to the next level.

now I understand why you two didn't line up to smooch me

hehe whut?

I just found out that I have some work in the Liverpool Museum !!!

I'll try and get some pics soon. I dont even know what is there exactly but there's a 60"x40" poster to start with

we have around 8.26 Bajillion forms, i wont post them all.

i'm told that i will be able to take delivery of those this week. good call, i'm contacting them again right now.

i'm sure they hate me now. but hey, it's not like i'll be worrying about that for the next job with them, heh.

ya, you don't want any set off with those heavy solids

http://www.kombo.fi/pianospectra/valmiit/KurittomatNuotit_mp4.mov

A 'viral' sort of small clip promoting a piano learning method.
I did the edit, live action direction and 3d sets, and colour grading.

It took us ages to make, but it is now finished!

That is great jussi-k!

Wow, Jussi! That's awesome, way cool.

So it's like Guitar Hero for piano?

jussi-k said...http://www.kombo.fi/pianospectra/valmiit/KurittomatNuotit_mp4.mov

A 'viral' sort of small clip promoting a piano learning method.
I did the edit, live action direction and 3d sets, and colour grading.

It took us ages to make, but it is now finished!

i'm sure it's great and all, as usual, but it gives my machine a serious crash. hard mash the button double restart including some weird prefs resets. this is firefox 3.03 OS 10.5.1. In safari it tries to load but stalls after about 5 seconds of the intro. what can cause this???