Ian Mason Callahan

Hillfest

imc — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:23:14 +0000

This looks like precisely the sort of thing I would never want to attend. But design is all about solving other people’s problems, not being narrowly committed to certain ideas and ideals. (Unless you’re a famous designer. Then you really do get to choose what to work on.) This makes use of typesettings from Photo-Lettering (Swiss Interlock, to be precise.)

Summer Session

imc — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:31:32 +0000

We are finally running a proper campaign for Summer Session instead of just letting it ride on the coattails of our full year program. I am the culprit behind the concept and execution of “July is an Investment in September” and, so far, the results have been quite favorable. We have seen a jump in high quality leads (inquiries) and I’m hoping the program will fill out soon. This is the print ad that is running in some camp guides and Bay State Parent. It complements an email campaign that also focuses on the icons I drew for each summer program. I think they lend a focus and punchiness to the writing and emphasize that skills will be developed. In that way, they are almost like merit badges.

Slant Cover Draft

imc — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:24:06 +0000

This is a work in progress, but I’m pleased with the direction. Hopefully we’ll actually get this journal off the ground by April. (N.B. I realize it’s obvious, but most of the cover lines are just placeholder text that are also weak attempts at humor.)

Dominick Farinacci

imc — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:21:01 +0000

How do you convey romance, jazz, Valentine’s Day, and cool without being schmaltzy? Focus on color and typography.

Grant Stewart Quintet

imc — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:15:58 +0000

Oh, did you say you needed a cool jazz poster? I can do that.

Catching Up

imc — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:10:51 +0000

Boy, it’s been a while. The good news is that the baby is now sleeping through the night. The bad news is that I have a huge backlog of things to put up here. Prepare for the flood.

Adobe Ideas

imc — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:46:41 +0000

The Adobe Touch apps are really growing on me. Especially Adobe Ideas. What a fun way to do vector drawing.

Work In Progress

imc — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 04:21:25 +0000

The Interrogator

imc — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:27:43 +0000

A full boom seemed like overkill, so I put this together for some DSLR interviews. It’s a Rode Videomic and pistol grip with a Zoom H2 digital recorder attached to the bottom.

Dear Walking Dead

imc — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:16:44 +0000

Dear Walking Dead,
I like you, I really do. But you just don’t get religion. A Southern Baptist church would never ever have a giant crucifix and it would certainly never ever ever have an icon of Mary affixed to a wall. You should have gone whole hog and made it a Catholic or Anglican church.

But then how would you have had characters deliver dramatic monologues to God?

Next time, at least make a kind of church that might actually exist.

Thanks,
Ian