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Gamer Icons

vonglitschka — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:15:46 +0000

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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Professor Coupon

vonglitschka — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:48:58 +0000

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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Non-Profit Identity

vonglitschka — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:02:16 +0000

Project: Non-Profit Identity
Client: Tapestry Church
Art Director: Austin Powell

Glitschka Studios services aren’t limited to mere commerce driven businesses. We enjoy working with non-profits to provide design and marketing solutions that will help them reach their goals as well.

Tapestry Church is a progressive ministry that understands the culture they exist in and needed a new identity that would reflect their core principles better.

With each project we define an appropriate visual aesthetic that fits the client. Tapestry Church wanted to get away from the old stodgy visual past and move into a new clean and modern future with their identity. We accomplished this while still accurately reflecting their purpose statement derived from a Bible verse that says:

“I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God.”

Our client was so happy with their new branding that they asked us to design another new identity for a separate ministry called “Kiddie Garden PreSchool” as well.

Whether you’re a commercial business or a small non-profit we can equip your vision so you can succeed.

Church Identity

Business Card

Ministry Icons: Real | Reaching | Relevant | Relational | Really

Church Identity – Format 1 | Format 2

Repeat Pattern

Business Card

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Footnote

vonglitschka — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:40:50 +0000

Project: TV Show Branding
Client: fntv.com
Art Director: Jon Reisinger

Glitschka Studios was hired to create a custom brand logo for a new TV production called “Footnote” which dives deep into hot button topics in an honest and fresh way.

Since the show deals with issues that are controversial we created a custom logo type that would contrast these narratives with a clean, refined word mark. We developed two iterations of the primary brand, and secondary elements to be used as onscreen bug graphics during the broadcast.*

*Glitschka Studios also assisted in the initial art direction for the shows intro graphics as well.

Corporate Identity – Format 1

Corporate Identity – Format 2

Onscreen Bug Graphic

Business Card

Intro Graphics Screen Grabs

Footnote Show Intro

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Hey Monkey!

vonglitschka — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:55:17 +0000

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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Sound Design

vonglitschka — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:37:41 +0000

Project: Corporate Identity
Client: Resonance Ensemble
Art Director: Von Glitschka

Resonance Ensemble is a new A cappella ensemble whose repertoire is graceful, beautiful, and unique. They needed an identity to match.

Glitschka Studios set out to create a mark that represented sound without relying on any pre-conceived visual that normally comes to mind when one thinks about music.

Sound waves radiate, so we played off of that to create a blossoming of the ensemble in song. The mark represents both the group of singers and the beautiful songs they radiate to their audience. It’s a bold, elegant, and sophisticated mark.

Corporate Identity – Format 1

Corporate Identity – Format 2

Event Banner

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Heart Worm™

vonglitschka — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:46:19 +0000

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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Linear Personality

vonglitschka — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:19:18 +0000

Project: Continuous Line Illustration
Client: Think Pepper
Art Director: Pepper Wunch

My client on this project was a small business owner who specializes in marketing. She requested clean continuous line illustrations that she could integrate into her web site to reflect her own personality and style.

Creating art that is encapsulated within one continuous line is challenging. And as you can see it’s not an ironclad rule but a general stylistic premise we operate under at Glitschka Studios. This style works well for a very broad range of clients and product types and we’d love to draw up some ideas for your next project too.

Laptop Lady and Snowshoeing Illustrations

Office Icons

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Renewable Creative Energy

vonglitschka — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:52:22 +0000

Project: Tribal Illustration
Client: Vonster Tattoos
Art Director: Von Glitschka

Working as a creative hired gun sometimes means spending a lot of time creating unique solutions that’ll ultimately never see the light of day. Such was the case with this design illustrated for St. Martins Press for use on the cover of a new book. I’ve created other iconic images for this same client, and the creative director loved this tribal styled bear. But after it was all said and done the author didn’t like it so it was never used.

At Glitschka Studios we believe in renewable creative energy, so we recycle any quality design not being used and repurpose it for other projects of ours such as “Vonster Tattoos,” a new line of tribal styled designs we are developing.

Tribal Bear Tattoo

Tribal Tattoo Design

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Illustrative Profiling

vonglitschka — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:19:41 +0000

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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