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Building Character

vonglitschka — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:34:27 +0000

Project: Personal Brand Character
Client: John Saddington
Art Director: Von Glitschka

The internet is replete with numerous brands competing for your attention. Within this online culture exists a newer breed of branding that derives it’s equity not on traditional products or services offered by a multi-national corporation but rather an individual personality.

A few of the most popular personal brands that can be found on the internet today are Guy Kawasaki, Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte, and John Saddington.

OK, so John isn’t quite at their level just yet, but he’s working on it. And with the help of Glitschka Studios he now has a fun brand character of himself he can use to build his equity with moving forward.

Building Character

“John Saddington” Brand Character (Pose 1)

“John Saddington” Brand Character (Pose 2)

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Winter Wonderland

vonglitschka — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:56:22 +0000

Project: Editorial Illustration
Client: AARP
Art Director: Joanna Foucheux

AARP called on Glitschka Studios to create a winter themed illustration to go with their December issue crossword puzzle. Since most publications are usually designed months in advance of their newsstand appearance, we had to get into a frozen state of mind since the local temperature was approaching 100 degrees.

The final art is festive and infused with a nice organic texture.

“Winter Wonderland” Illustration

Detail of Illustration 1

Detail of Illustration 2

Snowflake Ornament Designs

Illustration in Context

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Street 2 Street

vonglitschka — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:30:19 +0000

Project: Non-Profit Identity
Client: Street 2 Street
Art Director: Von Glitschka

Glitschka Studios loves creating great design. But we like it even better in context of a client that does life changing work such as Street 2 Street.

Whether our clients are multi-national corporations, or inner city non-profit outreach programs, we want to help them facilitate the growth of what they do, by producing work that is aesthetically relevant to the needs of their audience.

Our targeted approach leads to effectual brand recognition that equips our clients in their marketing efforts, and facilitates the professional image needed to garner sponsorship funding for their programs nationwide.

Corporate Identity

Secondary Logo Treatment and Unnested Version

Secondary Branding Graphic

Brand Icons: Hope | Growth | Excellence | Partnership

Brand Icons: Reach Out | Bridging Cultures | Encouragement | Networking

Brand Icons: New Life | University | Basketball | Football

Business Cards

Letterhead

Website View Website Here | Development by Vintom

Apparel Graphic

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Royal Ball

vonglitschka — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:13:13 +0000

Project: Packaging Graphics
Client: Group Publishing
Art Director: Paul Povolni

Glitschka Studios enjoys working with clients that provide quality products. Group Publishing develops and designs their own creatively unique Sunday School curriculum and packages it in a product called “Buzz.”

They hired us to create a custom hand lettered solution for the Buzz theme “Royal Ball.” We also created some secondary artwork to be used for various content within the package as well.

We’re faithfully dedicated to our clients success.

“Royal Ball” Custom Typography

“Royal Ball” Box Top

“Royal Ball” Buzz Box

Misc. Art and Temple Card

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Freedom of Speech

vonglitschka — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:24:25 +0000

Project: Linear Illustrations
Client: Ogilvy & Mather, Australia
Art Director: Andrew Charles

When a multi-national ad agency like Ogilvy needs to leverage an appropriate style for an ad campaign, they call on Glitschka Studios to deliver on target creative solutions.

We created a set of linear line illustrations to reinforce the concept of “Freedom of Speech” a new campaign Ogilvy developed for Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra.

The illustrations were used in print collateral and animated for TV spots. When you need to draw conclusion on your next project you know who to call.

“Freedom of Speech” Illustrations

“Freedom of Speech” Illustrations and custom type

Print Advertisement

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Pierre Bezier

vonglitschka — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:40:05 +0000

Project: Editorial Illustration
Client: Peachpit Press
Art Director: Von Glitschka

Glitschka Studios is working on a new book due out in early 2011 called “Vector Basic Training.” The book will exhaustively go through the illustrative design process we use to create and produce precision vector graphics.

For the chapter “The History of Bezier Curves” we illustrated Pierre Bezier. (AKA: The French Curve) We think this might be the first vector (bezier curve) illustration of the man responsible for taking the mathematical equation of bezier curves and implementing them within the realm of computer graphics?

In order to reinforce the whole bezier curve theme, we utilized a few of our newly created ornaments since they heavily depend on the use of bezier curves to design them.

“Pierre Bezier” Portrait Illustration

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High Five

vonglitschka — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:30:57 +0000

Project: Book Cover Illustration
Client: Peachpit Press
Art Director: Charlene Will

Author Mordy Golding asked Glitschka Studios to illustrate the cover for his latest “Real World Illustrator” book.

It’s always a challenge to create a cover that demonstrates and showcases new features in a software application, but do it in a fun and memorable way. For this design I focused on the fact that the new release was “CS5.” So I played off the number “5″ by featured the top “5″ new features, and kept the central focus the user.

Book Cover Illustration

Illustration in Context

Illustration Details

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Visually Intoxicating

vonglitschka — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:57:30 +0000

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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Vuly Trampolines

vonglitschka — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:01:22 +0000

Project: Corporate Identity
Client: Vuly Trampolines
Art Director: Von Glitschka

Glitschka Studios enjoys getting to know our clients. We take into consideration what type of personality and culture their business operates under, who their core audience is, and what message would best communicate with that audience. Our immersive approach towards understanding our clients industry allows us to then dream appropriately on their behalf so we can define a strategic solution that’ll make their business more successful.

Formerly known as “Australia Trampolines” our client was expanding their distribution and moving into the American market place and needed a new identity that would brand them globally. The inspiration for our brand mark design was derived from the circular shape of a trampoline, and the Vulcan god of smithery, and thus the new brand name “Vuly” was forged.

We strive to create long lasting, rewarding, and effectual relationships with our clients. If you have a project you’d like to bounce off us, we’d love the opportunity to jump on it.

Corporate Identity

Business Cards

Catalog Design | Photos by Nadine Shaw

Catalog Design | Photos by Nadine Shaw

Catalog Design – Spread Sample 1

Catalog Design – Spread Sample 2

Office Wall Application

Branded Corporate HQ

“Hex Vex” Trampoline Game – Logo & Game Icons

“Hex Vex” Trampoline Game

“Hex Vex” Game Instruction Sheet

Pad Pattern Design

Pad Label

Banner Ad

Olympic Athletic Uniforms

Promotional DVD Intro

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Tasty Visual Recipes

vonglitschka — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:48:44 +0000

Project: Linear Illustrations
Client: Hillebrand Cory
Art Director: Sara Stoner

Glitschka Studios enjoys it’s roll as a strategic design partner for other agencies when it comes to branding. Hillebrand Cory needed some fun linear illustrations to facilitate their print collateral concept for the National Restaurant Association, so we developed the visual recipe needed.

To help them achieve the look they were after we also designed a custom repeat pattern they could use as a background element on the cover.

What ever your creative appetite, we enjoy cooking up tasty solutions.

Cover Illustration

Interior Illustration

Repeat Pattern Design

Print Collateral designed by Hillebrand Cory

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