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11.30.23

JW.S Brand Update

I'm still going on my own brand... really covering off on all aspects before making any additional fixes/updates here :) Stay tuned.

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I'm still going on my own brand... really covering off on all aspects before making any additional fixes/updates here :) Stay tuned.

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11.14.23

Story time Badges

Do I need more badge designs? Always. The answer is always always.

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Do I need more badge designs? Always. The answer is always always.

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11.6.23

Hangyaku goin dark

Taking a look at where I might want to take the Hangyaku reboot.

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Taking a look at where I might want to take the Hangyaku reboot.

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4.11.23

Makin Weight(s)

Been busy with lots of stuff, including trying to make weight.

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Been busy with lots of stuff, including trying to make weight.

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3.3.23

JW.S Boot Sequence v1.0

As you might have noticed, there's a new pre-loader in town. It's still WIP, don't worry.,

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As you might have noticed, there's a new pre-loader in town. It's still WIP, don't worry.,

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2.8.23

Figma feels R + D

Doing some R + D for color grading in Figma, since that's a great idea... (?)

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Doing some R + D for color grading in Figma, since that's a great idea... (?)

DANC Graphical exporation

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6.17.22

More Type Spec

Been chipping away at the type spec as I have time between other projects. I've made peace with the fact that its going to be slow going, but I'm happy to leverage MidJourney for some additional spice.

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6.17.22

MidJourney Continues

I still don't know what it all means for the creative work flow, but I've been exploring some of my favorite subject matters (a penchant for skulls and gold.. yea, I dunno either). Bringing into PS for some touch-up/compositing...

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5.13.22

I've been going down the rabbit-hole of technical line workings for DANC. Everything about the brand and the world it occupies is technical, so it seems like a miss to not bring that into the design language.

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5.11.22

JW.S Font Spec... Continued

Still going on the font spec, and exploring some more expressive/abstract applications of it.

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Still going on the font spec, and exploring some more expressive/abstract applications of it.

Grading some DANC footage

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5.7.22

Diving back into Davinci Resolve to grade some old footage of Dan shaping for DANC. Camera settings aren't ideal, but should be useable still.

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Diving back into Davinci Resolve to grade some old footage of Dan shaping for DANC. Camera settings aren't ideal, but should be useable still.

Photo Stories In Development

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5.5.22

I'm working through some designs to get photo + design co-habitating. This first pass is for easy behance case studies, but more developed versions down the road for my photo site (hopefully coming by end of year).

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A place to release final work– nothing WIP about it.

Works in progress, experiments.. anything not final. But is anything ever final?

Various stuff resurfacing from the archives. Concepts, WIPs, or stuff not otherwise shown.

New JW.S releases + personal updates.. whatever they might be.

A repository for random thoughts, insights, things of the like.

Stuff that has no explanation, rhyme or reason that I can think of.

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A collection of related tags that connect disparate content through thematic through-lines.

Art made with a purpose or objective in mind.

As you'd expect, leading a new direction in design (to various degrees)

Another broad category that encapsulates most of my design work.

Anything that is interactive in some capacity. A broad category that lives at the core of a lot of my work.

The messier, yet most fun part of the creative process where I feel out the edges.

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1.28.2023