Graphic Art Portfolio
Project: Discover East Lyme Brochure/Map
Role: Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Brown Bear Creative helped Discover East Lyme expand its tourism promotion by designing brightly-colored brochures that highlight community information, annual events, and local businesses.
The full-color, trifold brochures include a wealth of information and showcase the beauty of East Lyme with vivid photos of the town throughout the seasons. In this way, the brochures help promote the town as a year-round destination for tourists.
Inside, the brochure opens up to a business directory and a large town map that pinpoints the location of restaurants, shops, and more.
Project: Bridal Shower Invitations and Recipe Cards
Role: Graphic Designer / Illustrator
For the bridal shower of Kara O'Brien, Brown Bear Creative designed fun, brightly-colored invitations and thank you cards that reflected the spring wedding theme. Both cards incorporate imagery of yellow tulips, a prominent flower in the wedding.
Brown Bear also designed recipe cards for shower guests to write down their favorite recipes. The cards feature an illustration of Merlin, the bride-to-be's pet dog, wearing a chef hat.
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Project: Old Lyme's Midsummer Festival Brochures and Posters
Role: Graphic Designer
To complement the Old Lyme Midsummer Festival website, Brown Bear designed bright, summery brochures and posters to promote the two-day event.
The posters offer a taste of what's to come, while the brochures provide a full schedule of events, parking information, and a custom-drawn map of the festival locations.
Project: Niantic's Streetscape Enhancement Project Brochures and Posters
Role: Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Niantic Main Street needed print materials to showcase their new revitalization project for downtown Niantic, CT: Niantic's Streetscape Enhancement Project. The project consisted of adding new trees, street lights, benches, potted plants, and crosswalks to beautify the downtown area.
To reflect the vibrant new streetscape and generate excitement about the project, Brown Bear created brightly-colored brochures and posters with a fun streetscape illustration to signify the revitalization tone.
Project: Holistic Depth Psychotherapist Brochures
Role: Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Nicole Ditz, MA CMHC was in need of an identity package to highlight her services as a Holistic Depth Psychotherapist. Brown Bear Creative designed a logo, website, business card, and brochure.
The brochure embodies earthy colors and nature imagery to complement themes of metamorphasis in therapeutic healing.
Project: World Premiere Opera Workshops Brochures
Role: Graphic Designer
World Premiere Opera Workshops offers a unique team-building opportunity for businesses. During each workshop, members of an organization join World Premiere artists to create and perform an original opera scene.
Brown Bear created a brochure to showcase their unique service. Playing upon the opera theme, the brochure embodies dramatic colors and resembles a Playbill.
Project: Sun Run Entertainment Logo
Role: Graphic Designer / Illustrator
Sun Run Entertainment had presented the challenge to Brown Bear to develop a look for their logo that reflected both comedic and dramatic film genres.
The design process resulted in an emblem depicting a bright orange sun silhouetted by a statuesque winged man. The bold new logo now successfully distinguishes the unique film production company.
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Project: Cini 2005 Postcards
Role: Graphic Designer
Matthew Cini, running for the local office of First Selectman of East Lyme, needed to create a graphic identity for his campaign. Brown Bear Creative designed his logo, print materials, and website.
Cini and members of his campaign used the postcard as an acknowledgement of town people's support.
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Project: Wildcat Stamp Series
Role: Graphic Designer / Illustrator
The aim was to produce a series of stamps based around a central theme. Using wildcats as a focus, broad areas of color illustrate each cat so when the image is reduced down to the size of a stamp, it maintains its integrity.
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Project: Rent CD Cover
Role: Graphic Designer / Illustrator
The focus of the piece is on the color red, as that commonly signifies passion. In this case, it also illustrates blood, as several of the characters are HIV positive. A frenzy of vivid colors around the rose symbolize the seasons of love.
