It seems odd that the last "post" I made to my own website was 11 months ago. I mean -- there's lots to talk about, so why has it been so long?Work.Lots of work.Here's a little taste:
Four (4!) books -- cover design and interior design -- for Servant Partners Press. They are beautiful. Go check them out.
Audio mixing half of a live concert DVD for the "Celebrate Recovery" program at Saddleback (a megachurch in Orange County). It sounds beautiful...I'm really proud of the mixing/mastering job I did on that project.
Another book -- cover design and interior design -- for longtime client Asian Access. The book drops May 1, so I can't post pictures yet. But it's beautiful, and will be really well-received.
Continued work with The Baseball Reliquary, including video from their annual Shrine of the Eternals induction ceremony event and continued support for their website. Let me be clear: it was difficult to become a member of the Reliquary -- an association funded entirely by member dues -- before our redesigned site launched. The new site has paid for itself in new memberships that have been purchased over the website. Wow!...absolutely wonderful.
Photography for the amazing JD Hinton and Phil Bloch (we're developing a new site for Phil Bloch). These musicians are amazing, and I'm privileged to be working with such incredible talent...and all-around great guys.
I'm not only working with Fuller Theological Seminary (I do all the cover art for the Fred Bock Institute of Music) and Caltech Campus Programs (all of their e-marketing for arts and lectures), but I'm now assisting with the fundraising activities for the Pasadena City College Foundation. If you live locally, you might have heard that they just heard that PCC will now be offering free first-year tuition for all local high school students. This is a very big deal, and much of it has to do with the fundraising capacity of the revamped Foundation; the people I work with there are top-notch. Kudos to them.
You did see the game I designed, right? Rocks and Docks keeps plugging along; it's used in treatment facilities in group therapy. We had a fun time developing, testing, revising, and assembling that game.
We're helping out good friend and colleague (and amazing product designer) Dave Schultze launch a Kickstarter campaign for his new game. I just spent part of last weekend filming some footage for the Kickstarter video.
I don't even think this covers half of what we've been working on. And I can't wait to show you more: another trip to Asia where we'll be producing all of the onsite video, several more websites that we are currently developing, more music and sound cues, and the list goes on...[caption id="attachment_2702" align="alignright" width="300"]
My signoff for a form of pages (8 out of the 24) that go into the magazine[/caption]Today I got to spend the day at The Dot Printer, one of my favorite printers in the world. I spend a whole day here every quarter, checking the magazine that I art-direct for The Planetary Society as it is going through the press. Why do I spend a whole day watching paper run through the press? Because I only want top-notch-quality for my clients. By being on-site, I can ensure that everything comes off press looking exactly how I intended it to...down to the color of that dot that shows where they landed on Antarctica (check out this quarter's issue for a really fun look at research being done on Antarctica that simulates the environment astronauts might find themselves in on Mars).I have lots to talk about, and I think I'll be on here more often this year than last -- telling all of you about my projects and all the opportunities to see our work pop up around town. I also want to talk about some of the things that we at HCS care about -- education, science, and the technology that continues to drive our industry.I hope you come along for the ride.