A 7 year tradition of making cards still has gone unbroken with this years installment of Watier Productions Santa Card. I hope you all enjoy the art and please have a safe holiday.

Seasons Greetings.

Matt

Happy Holidays 2009 by *mattwatier on deviantART

I always love designs before they go to the higher ups.   Usually it means designs are cleaner more cutting edge and more marketing focused.   At this point designers have free reign over what it should look like and what it should sell.  The design process is slightly ignorant to the legal issues or information that needs to be supplemented that drags it more back toward center.   The greatest dream for designers right at this point is to “WOW”.  If the designer can make a statement the design will be a benchmark that will win confidence that the marketing is heading in the right direction.  If the designer and design win this crucial battle the client is  more comfortable to leave you with the freedoms you have started with and the gravity of “center” will not affect the project.   I proudly present the early designs for IBIS.

–>> Continue reading IBIS – Design Comps.

I know I have said this before but I never thought I would get so much work for PowerPoint designs, templates, and production. I know most designers think PowerPoint is the worst thing since the first piece of sliced bread turned green and moldy.  I understand the horrible tools that come with PowerPoint but with a bit of effort and creative thinking you can make some really great presentations.

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In my process of learning how to skin WordPress I have started to learn PHP. This is a series of post that will explain what I stumbled over as a non-coder so you don’t have to.

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Hidden in a vault in San Jose is a collection of gold that Predates Columbus. The figures are for rituals, burials, and shamans. All of these pictures were taken in the Museo de Oro Precolombino.

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So while I was still at Medomak High School I seemed to have a lot of time on my hands.  I have books filled with pencil drawings some good, some bad, some never finished, and some have hung in my sub conscious and have now become the seeds of books I have done and books I dream of doing.  But I can tell you one thing for certain. I loved to make art that was surreal and about alien like things. I was never for the grotesque I will leave that for my friend Eve. But did have a good run back in in my senior year of make some strange creatures. So for all your viewing pleasure I have brushed off the dust cracked the spine of the book that is held together by only tape and scanned some of it in.  with out further ado.

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During a serious of unfortunate events I was waylaid in San Juan for 36 hours.  It was a great place to be trapped for a day considering I had a digital camera and no where to go.  One of the most beautiful things about old town San Juan is the beautifully painted buildings and doors.  I just loved all  the colors and things that I saw while trapped because of bad airlines.

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I wanted to continue the post The first project I am show casing here at my website watier.org is for the company Ogilvy PR. I contracted for Ogilvy PR for a couple of months and during that time I worked on clients like Johnson & Johnson, Macy’s, and here is one piece that I actual got to design from the ground up which was for Darden Restaurants who own Bahama Breeze.

–>> Continue reading Print Design – Oglivy PR – Continued

Many Points in my life I have designed for different mediums.  Considering my age I have straddled the Print Age, and now the Web Age.   So much of what I have learned has built upon the foundation that I learned in print.   I have two grand lessons one is from Howard Pyle who taught that “in any painting you should be able to render it in black&white and still have it readable.”  And the other is from my father who made signs for 40 years and he taught “make it readable if you fail at that then you failed at everything.”

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So for all of you who have been here since the beginning I have been working on my own theme for word press.  Like most I started with a little help and cannibalize another theme to start.  So most of you might have seen my Notepad 1.0

–>> Continue reading Sometimes it is best to start over.