http://www.vonglitschka.com The Pursuit of Creative Excellence Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.vonglitschka.com/2010/06/17/visually-intoxicating/ http://www.vonglitschka.com/2010/06/17/visually-intoxicating/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:57:30 +0000 vonglitschka http://www.vonglitschka.com/?p=1554
Project: Brand Character Design Client: Tommy Knocker Brewery Art Director: Jim Hargreaves As a creative hired gun, Glitschka Studios does a lot of collaborative exploratory work for other agencies and design firms. Denver based Barnhart called on us to create a new brand character for a pitch they were developing for their client Tommy Knocker Brewery. A character development [...]]]>
Project: Brand Character Design
Client: Tommy Knocker Brewery
Art Director: Jim Hargreaves

As a creative hired gun, Glitschka Studios does a lot of collaborative exploratory work for other agencies and design firms. Denver based Barnhart called on us to create a new brand character for a pitch they were developing for their client Tommy Knocker Brewery.

A character development like this represents an entire company and a product line, so the process can become long and drawn out. Often the focus moves off the bigger brand picture and gets bogged down in the minutia.

When a project languishes like this, the design may never be used and is almost always shelved.

Regardless of that reality, we’re happy with the work we provided in this creative partnership and think Barnhart did a great job implementing the character into the overall brand development.

“Tommy Knocker” Brand Character


“Tommy Knocker” Brand Character – With Shading


Packaging Design by Jim Hargreaves


Bottle Label Design by Jim Hargreaves | Alternate Logotype Concept by Glitschka Studios

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Project: 4 Hats of a Creative Professional Client: Orozco Design Art Director: Joven Orozco Not all of our clients at Glitschka Studios are large business, this project was for a fellow small business. They wanted the artwork in a small world style, so I guess you could say it’s a small business world after all. This specific art was [...]]]>
Project: 4 Hats of a Creative Professional
Client: Orozco Design
Art Director: Joven Orozco

Not all of our clients at Glitschka Studios are large business, this project was for a fellow small business. They wanted the artwork in a small world style, so I guess you could say it’s a small business world after all.

This specific art was to help illustrate “The 4 Hats of a Creative Professional.”

Character Illustrations


4 Hats: Marketing, Operations, Planning, Creative

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Project: Brand Character Development Client: Bon Mangez Art Director: Dickie Adams An entrepreneurial client contacted Glitschka Studios about developing a new approach to syndicated food journalism. We love to cook up original creative recipes so we put on our conceptual chef hats and got to work. We first developed a character called “Bon Mangez.” The name is French, “Bon” [...]]]>
Project: Brand Character Development
Client: Bon Mangez
Art Director: Dickie Adams

An entrepreneurial client contacted Glitschka Studios about developing a new approach to syndicated food journalism. We love to cook up original creative recipes so we put on our conceptual chef hats and got to work.

We first developed a character called “Bon Mangez.” The name is French, “Bon” meaning “Good” and “Mangez” meaning “Eat.” Bon is a snarky but fair food critic personality the public will enjoy, and serves as a syndicated platform that localized writers can license and use to do restaurant reviews for print or online.

We also designed a fun and unique approach to the rating system, mustaches. And the hierarchy follows the guidelines set forth by the Association of Food Journalists.

“Bon Mangez” Brand Logo


“Bon Mangez” Character and Rating System Icons


First Run Publication

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Project: Game Avatar Icons Client: Upper Deck Company Art Director: Brian Bateman Huntik™ is a roll playing game produced by Upper Deck Company. Each character card in the set needed a custom avatar icon designed for it. Simplicity is key when developing iconography. So being able to bake down complex character attributes so they work as a simplistic one [...]]]>
Project: Game Avatar Icons
Client: Upper Deck Company
Art Director: Brian Bateman

Huntik™ is a roll playing game produced by Upper Deck Company. Each character card in the set needed a custom avatar icon designed for it.

Simplicity is key when developing iconography. So being able to bake down complex character attributes so they work as a simplistic one color quickly read piece of art can be challenging.

Unfortunately due to the economy Upper Deck Company has now shut down their entertainment division and this killed the project before it ever saw the light of day.

Avatar Icons – Jericho & Midnight Rook


Avatar Icons – Vigilante & Wildwood Druid


Avatar Icons – Pendragon & Marauder


Avatar Icons – Caliban & Harlekin


Avatar Icons – Divine Kagami & Arc 2

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Project: Character Illustration Client: KZ Creative Art Director: Zevi Zilberberg Agencies hire us to create all types of projects for them. In this case we were hired to develop a character called “Professor Coupon.” We love developing fun characters for our clients and when we deliver the final art it’s like a graphic child leaving home to go out [...]]]>
Project: Character Illustration
Client: KZ Creative
Art Director: Zevi Zilberberg

Agencies hire us to create all types of projects for them. In this case we were hired to develop a character called “Professor Coupon.”

We love developing fun characters for our clients and when we deliver the final art it’s like a graphic child leaving home to go out into the brave new branding world.

We hope the professor graduates with honors for our client.

“Professor Coupon” Character – Pose 1


“Professor Coupon” Character – Pose 2



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Project: Corporate Identity Client: Hey Monkey! Art Director: Lenny Terenzi Smart design firms know how to leverage and manage creative skills in order to facilitate a projects success. Hey Monkey! is such a firm, so when they realized their own identity needed a refresh they called Glitschka Studios. Hey Monkey! creates effective web design and development for their own [...]]]>
Project: Corporate Identity
Client: Hey Monkey!
Art Director: Lenny Terenzi

Smart design firms know how to leverage and manage creative skills in order to facilitate a projects success. Hey Monkey! is such a firm, so when they realized their own identity needed a refresh they called Glitschka Studios.

Hey Monkey! creates effective web design and development for their own clients and called upon us to create a new character based identity.

The name of the company is original so on the primary mark we utilizes custom hand lettering. We also felt it was important to make the brand system modular so Hey Monkey! could let it’s brand take on various moods in various context usages. The end result is a fun and effectual identity.

Corporate Identity – Format 1


Corporate Identity – Format 2


Modular Facial Expressions


Hey Monkey! Character


Hey Monkey! T-Shirt

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Project: Character Illustration Client: NPR Studio 360 Art Director: Armin Vit Glitschka Studios loves designing with a sense of humor in mind. So when NPR Studio 360 contacted Brand New to create a tongue in cheek rebrand of Valentines Day we were thrilled to be invited to contribute. Our part of the rebranding was to create an alternative character that [...]]]>
Project: Character Illustration
Client: NPR Studio 360
Art Director: Armin Vit

Glitschka Studios loves designing with a sense of humor in mind.

So when NPR Studio 360 contacted Brand New to create a tongue in cheek rebrand of Valentines Day we were thrilled to be invited to contribute.

Our part of the rebranding was to create an alternative character that would replace the stereotypical “Cupid.” So we kick started our creative sarcasm and produced the beloved “Heart Worm™” character.

On Valentine’s Day let your heart be infested with the Heart Worm™. Its burrowing presence will give you passionate heart burn for the apple of your eye. Eat your heart out Cupid!

“Heart Worm™” Character | Merchandise Design    Download Brand Sheet Here
Social Media Savvy “Heart Worm™”



Brand Reinforcement | Classic Metaphor

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Project: Character Illustration Client: Dental City Art Director: Brad Knapp Glitschka Studios was asked to illustrate a character based on an established profile provided to us by the ad agency. The profile contained a description of the fictional character they wanted as it related to hair color, height, age etc. Other information such as her education, friends, marital [...]]]>
Project: Character Illustration
Client: Dental City
Art Director: Brad Knapp

Glitschka Studios was asked to illustrate a character based on an established profile provided to us by the ad agency. The profile contained a description of the fictional character they wanted as it related to hair color, height, age etc. Other information such as her education, friends, marital status, and even vices like “Chocolate” and “Oprah.”

Processing all the various attributes and criteria, balancing them and finding an appropriate visual solution can be challenging to say the least. And for this exploration we ended up providing two options for the agency.

As with most agency work, these explorations were never used.

Dental City Character Explorations

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Project: T-Shirt Design Client: iovation Art Director: Craig Brewster Our clients cover a very diverse range of services and products that require unique creative solutions to market them effectively. This project was for iovation who helps online business fight fraud by identifying computers with evil intent. They wanted to promote their service in a novel way via a [...]]]>
Project: T-Shirt Design
Client: iovation
Art Director: Craig Brewster

Our clients cover a very diverse range of services and products that require unique creative solutions to market them effectively. This project was for iovation who helps online business fight fraud by identifying computers with evil intent. They wanted to promote their service in a novel way via a t-shirt design.

Glitschka Studios created fun iconic characters to represent good computers and evil computers. Our design was used with the slogan “Fight Online Fraud with iovation!” printed on the back of the shirt.

We’ll let you decide which one is Mac and which one is PC. ;-P

Good and Evil Computers





Geek Apparel Rules!

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Project: Character Illustration Client: Glitschka Studios Product Art Director: Von Glitschka Like the wind inspiration can hit you at any moment from any direction, so at Glitschka Studios we pay attention to the prevailing creative winds letting our imaginations set sail. What started as a small pencil sketch while watching a movie led to a very fun creative process [...]]]>
Project: Character Illustration
Client: Glitschka Studios Product
Art Director: Von Glitschka

Like the wind inspiration can hit you at any moment from any direction, so at Glitschka Studios we pay attention to the prevailing creative winds letting our imaginations set sail.

What started as a small pencil sketch while watching a movie led to a very fun creative process as we produced the artwork shown below. When it was all said and done we named our new creation “TRI 3Y3 Guy.” Is he a Mutant, Monster, Freak, or just a happy go-lucky alien hybrid? No one knows for sure, so we’ll let you decide.

This artwork is available for licensing, but you can download a wallpaper version here.

“TRI 3Y3 Guy” Character Illustration


“TRI 3Y3 Guy” Poster    Download PDF Poster Here


Apparel Graphic    View / Order Shirt Here

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