Toolbar Icons

I was inspired by this post I saw on Swiss Miss of some custom doc icons by Jessica Hische. I decided to make some icons of my own to personalize my new laptop. Being obsessed as I am with black and white, I decided to go with a black and white desktop theme. here is a couple of screen shots of what I have so far.

I'm still working on some of them and am enjoying learning about icon design. It can be tricky getting them to work at such small sizes and in some cases I've created different versions for different sizes.

MJ Bottles

Here are the bottles for MJ.

This home brewed beer is not for binge drinking college students, but rather for a more sophisticated yet relaxed group of people that enjoys a good beer. The hand rendered illustrations reenforce the hand crafted nature of the beer.

MJ's home brew

Here is what I have so far for my mom's beer labels. What do you think?

Light Box

Here are a couple shots of my home made light box.

Passive Post-Its

Here are my updated passive aggressive notes. The color, typeface, form and illustrations have all been updated. They now come in the form of a large 4x4 post-it complete with a website, www.downwithroommates.org What do you think.

My Very Own Business System

Here is my completed (for now) business system. Starting with the business card front and back:

Next is the Letter Head:

And envelope: 

And just for kicks here's my finished (for now) promo piece:

About Micah Patrick

Vegetables
Likes: 6% broccoli, 15% Carrots, 16% Lettuce, 9% Asparagus, 4% Corn
Dislikes: 8% Peas, 27% Cauliflower, 10% Parsnips, 5% Radish

Software Proficiency (in order of proficiency)
Photoshop
Illustrator
MS Paint
Indesign
Dreamweaver
Flash

Typing Speed
English: 30 WPM
Lorem Ipsum: One text frame per second

Keys
6 personal, 19 work
11 door, 8 vehicle, 2 padlock, 4 other

Blog viewers
Operating System 29% PC, 71% Mac (I use PC)
Browser: 38 Chrome, 9% Explorer, 27% Firefox, 26% Safari (I use Chrome)

Earth
Countries I've visited: United States , Canada, Japan, South Korea, England , France, Scotland, Ireland , Northern Ireland , Italy, Egypt, Greece , Malta , Cyprus, Libya
Where's I've Lived: Bozeman 3 years (born) , Salt Lake City 2 years , Portland 17 years (present), Carnforth 1 year (England)

Instead of sleeping (in order of frequency)
reading blogs
designing
wishing I were asleep
listening to music
blogging
night photography
running
Hulu
midnight mac and cheese
sleep walking
fishing

How to find me
call me
check out my flickr
check out my digital portfolio
follow me on twitter
email me
check out my blog
check out my facebook fan page

Interactive Website

Remember my website look? Well I've made it into an interactive pdf which you can view by clicking here.

Feel free to test out the hyperlinks. Be warned that If you click on Blog it will just take you back here. On the real thing it will open the blog in a separate tab. For you facebook fans out there you can click on the portfolio pieces to get to the next piece, or you can use the arrows at the bottom to get to the next piece. The pieces are almost all from this term or else pieces that were handy for some other reason. Hopefully it's pretty self explanatory. Let me know if it's not.

Also don't try to email me at hello@micahpatrick because that email as listed on the contact page is not set up yet.

Promo

This is part of a promo piece I'm working on for my pro prac class. It's a small poster with info graphics about myself. The information is a combination of trivial facts about myself for fun and graphic design facts to promote myself. There will also be a graphic with all my contact information. Here is one of six columns.

The first one seen here is vegetable by % likes and % dislikes.
The second is relative software proficiency.
The third is my typing speed for English and for filler text.
I'm much faster at filler text.

If you have any Ideas for other information to include let me know.

TriFi Business System

Here is what I have so far on my TriFi Business System.
Letterhead:

and business cards (employee picks one):

fantasy

horror

scifi

Sachi Original Photo

Here is the original photo cropped to the size of the illustration:

I decided to make him happier looking in the illustration.

Sachi!! Quit Scratching!!

I finished (for now) my scratchboard illustration of my dog Sachi:

Website Look

Here is what I have so far for my website's look as seen in Google Chrome. Click on images below to see them in close to actual size.

This is what it will look like on my computer and 76% of users (1680 by 1050 pixels):

This is what it will look like on a computer with a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels (20% of users):

Thank You

a couple of thank you cards:

Passive Aggressive Notes

I want to be clear, these are not directed at my roommate Zachariah. The assignment was to create a series of three or more. I chose to create notes that one would give to a lazy roommate. Here are two of them.

"Your milk went bad again BUT There is still plentty of my food for you to mooch off of in the refrigerator."

"I know that you've been super busy playing your video games all day long BUT perhaps you could take a short break to clean up some of your dishes in the sink."

Scratch Board

This is another illustration project. This time using scratch board. The board starts out black and as you scratch away the black, white is uncovered. This is my practice version of my dog Sachi.

I find it looks best when squinting at it from a distance or at an angle. Or with your eyes closed imagining that it's good.

Stipple

This is a stipple illustration I'm working on for my Illustration for Graphic Design class.

The final project is to turn it into a greeting card of some sort. Any ideas?