Need some feedback on this identity I will be using for a small start-up I am doing with my niece. I am sure this monogram has been used many times, but I wanted to stick with a simple typographic mark. The larger typeface was created by hand and the smaller one is "Gotham Rounded," but I don't think I am content with the relationship. Any recommended treatments or font substitutions? How about colors? Thanks in advance!

Rockford Interactive is a full service creative agency providing everything from social media consulting and management to branding and web development.

For some reason I was really intrigued by @alexbrooke's clock illustration and after my comment, I wanted to see if it could be done the way that I recommended. Sure enough, it can... just takes a LOT of layers. I didn't finish the hands, but I think I got the look I was going for.

Created entirely in Photoshop CS5.

EDIT:

I added the hands, but that bigger middle light was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Unfortunately, I don't know any quick techniques to add "translucent" detail as if there were an actual visible bulb casing peeking out the top and sides.

I am not a fan of the trendy terse triplet marketing slogans, but this was a sermon title I created a graphic ID and video bumper for. Only used for one morning, but a good exercise nonetheless. In fact, I will be posting some more of these exercises on here to see what people think.

By the way, I do all of the design, branding, marketing, print, web development and video production at Redemption Bible Church in Mount Prospect, IL.

Email promo campaign designed and coded for a friend of mine to promote his music to college campuses back in the fall. Specifically formatted for use as a campaign template within MailChimp using dreaded gasp tables and inline gulp styles. Feel free to use the code from the URL as a reference for your own HTML emails.

One of the many concepts created for Summit Community Church, but I guess the style was too progressive for them or something. I thought someone else might be able to pay me for this design, but I am pretty sure I saw something almost exactly like this recently. Oh well.

Notice the "S" is created with two "C's." (Same as the other one.)

Gotham FTW.

A logo I created last year for a church near St. Louis. Only visit the site if you want to see a terrible application of the design that I had nothing to do with. Oh, and I didn't pick the colors either.

This is the new portfolio site for the studio I am currently working for. I didn't design it, but am doing all of the HTML5 markup, styling, jQuery and custom PHP. I don't even know if I am allowed to post this, but Zack told me to put something up.