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Community Creative Center: All So Far

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The Community Creative Center is a really great place over in Fayetteville, AR where people can learn all kinds of art media from local, professional artists! “CCC is a real asset for the community and I am glad to have them and to design for them” – JD

Holiday Bazaar, Holiday Market and Gift Certificates, here is everything we have created for them so far:

 

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A Bear of a Gift Certificate Design

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Bear with us folks!

We just completed designs for the Community Creative Center’s Gift Certificates. The idea of using a bear and the bearer pun were not our idea but we wish it had been! The designs are ours however and… well just check them out:

The fist bear idea was to use a teddy bear.
The second was to use a more real type bear in illustration form
Finally settled on buying a stock image and here is the result. Came out quite nice I think!
18″x24″ ad poster
website slideshow image
web and email ad

So this holiday season, give them a lasting gift rather than one that they will take back or possibly regift. If you want more information on gift certificates from Community Creative Center, head over to their website: CommunityCreativeCenter.org

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Community Creative Center’s Holiday Market

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The Holiday Market!

Yes, it is December 1st. Yes, I cannot believe it either! Time for the holiday season and for gift buying! That being said you might consider checking out Community Creative Center’s Holiday Market.

We continue to create fun and stylish designs for the Community Creative Center in Fayetteville, AR. This design set is for their Holiday Market which is actually located in nearby Bentonville, AR. We designed the storefront and everything else you see here.

Finished storefront Left side.
Finished storefront right side.
Bauble featuring CCC’s logo.
This is the mockup for the left hand side.
This is the mockup for the right.
web and email ads
CCC’s web slideshow slide.
A handout or handbill (in old time speak) 5.5″x8.5″
A poster 11″x17″
An ad for Facebook
A header for Facebook.

If you are in the North West Arkansas area between December 10th and 20th stop in and support local artists this holiday season! Click HERE to go see Community Creative Center’s website for more information!

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Ash&Ember – Tee Shirt and Special Card Designs

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Some great new specialty cards and a first!

I recently did some new design work for Ash&Ember a great and unusual shop selling the best in pipes, and blended tobaccos, cigars and a large assortment of collectible memorabilia and even some clothing items! I’d call it a curiosity shop for sure and a worthy stop if you are visiting North West Arkansas!

As for the cards, they are a Loyalty Card and a special club members’ card featuring design and illustration by JD Ray. As for the first there is a silkscreened teeshirt design and illustration by JD and a first for Stingray Grafik Wurks! The shirt is available in several colors and sizes. Only club members get the exclusive shirt with the club name, Society of Strange-Fellows, on the back.

Without further ado, here are the designs. (by the way these items are in print and ready for you to acquire from Ash&Ember!)

Designs
In print, apologies for blurry pic here!
In print, apologies for blurry pic here!
Designs for the teeshirt. The back two versions shown to the right.
Back of shirt for the general public
Front of the teeshirt!

 

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Ash&Ember: A Gentleman’s Shop

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Ash&Ember is another outside project I did through Inuendos design project and it was very exciting for me because I have designed quite a bit for them. And their proprietor Joe is a very cool and encouraging cat to work for.

Here is a gallery of some of what I designed for them:

The actual directional sign at work!
Ash&Ember’s business card
A gift certificate designed by me… no, printing it won’t help you, it will need the signature of the Proprietor or his agent.
Joe sells hand blended tobaccos and required labels. This design is based off of my Ash&Ember sign design and the business cards.
Jade matchbox cover design!
Ash&Ember is ’round back so a directional sign shows foot traffic where to go.
The back of the Gift Certificate seen in the first picture!
My illustration and design based on a sketch I did in 2009. Joe at Ash&Ember collaborated with me telling me what he envisioned the final looking like. And here is Jade. She will, like Abe, be featured on a matchbox.
The sign I designed for Ash&Ember. This sign was team worked as far as it’s final execution. It was to be lit which was pricey, I had the idea to make it in-house with plexiglass with frosted elements on standoffs, the production manager suggested lighting it from behind and using translucent vinyl lettering in black. In the end we came up with a sign that looks almost painted on in the day and saved Ash & Ember some scratch!
Measurements are in Millimeters so don’t let the numbers throw you. This box features not only my design but my illustration and tag line.

So if you like handcrafted pipes, cigars, tobaccos and yes even collectibles and graphic novels… head over to this very novel store in downtown Siloam Springs, AR! www.ashemberpipes.com

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Outside Projects

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JD  has done outside work besides freelance work with Stingray Grafik.

Until recently he worked for a small design company called Inuendos. “At Inuendos I designed car wraps, signs, business cards and all sorts of interesting things including WordPress websites. I even have lent a hand in installing some of these graphics in their respective forms.

It was a good experience!

Have a look:

 

My latest car wrap design
My latest car wrap design
My latest car wrap design
My latest car wrap design
My latest car wrap design
My latest car wrap design
The actual directional sign at work!
The sign I designed for Ash&Ember. This sign was team worked as far as it’s final execution. It was to be lit which was pricey, I had the idea to make it in-house with plexiglass with frosted elements on standoffs, the production manager suggested lighting it from behind and using translucent vinyl lettering in black. In the end we came up with a sign that looks almost painted on in the day and saved Ash & Ember some scratch!
Joe sells hand blended tobaccos and required labels. This design is based off of my Ash&Ember sign design and the business cards.
Ash&Ember is ’round back so a directional sign shows foot traffic where to go.
Ash&Ember’s business card
The back of the Gift Certificate seen in the first picture!
A gift certificate designed by me… no, printing it won’t help you, it will need the signature of the Proprietor or his agent.
Here is the completed vehicle. It finished pretty well with only minor variation.
Here is the completed vehicle. It finished pretty well with only minor variation.
Here is the completed vehicle. It finished pretty well with only minor variation.
Here is the first vehicle wrap I ever designed. This is a mock up created in Photoshop for the Superior Automotive Group.
This is a business card I designed for MegaByte, a retail store and repair shop that specializes in Apple Computers
Siloam Springs Regional Hospital holds a Kids Fair and this year I had the honor of designing banners for the event. This is a directional banner.
Siloam Springs Regional Hospital holds a Kids Fair and this year I had the honor of designing banners for the event. This is the Welcome banner.
Siloam Springs Regional Hospital holds a Kids Fair and this year I had the honor of designing banners for the event. This is a banner showing the location of helicopter rides!
Siloam Springs Regional Hospital holds a Kids Fair and this year I had the honor of designing banners for the event. This is the registration banner.
I did this design very recently for a local Corn Maze. It was fun to reinvent the signs. They were not happy with their original main signs so I created this one. Note how I used maze parts from their actual maze and used green and yellow . The maze begins to look like corn kernels and the colors reinforce that this is a corn maze!
Here are the rest of the signs for the Ozark Corn Maze. I reused the font from last year in conjunction with the font from the new sign so existing signage would fit with it. Last year is was predominately black lettering on white. I added color to some of the signs to add some fun to this family friendly corn maze attraction. They seemed to like what I designed and they were great to work with!
This was a business card I designed with good customer direction. He knew just what he wanted and I hope I delivered it!
This sign was fun to design and is for a local company with its history right here in North West Arkansas. This is a 24″ x 36″ sandwich board sign.
I designed this flyer for a recent event to raise money for our town’s Veterans’ Memorial. There are several family members who are Vets so this meant a lot to me to help create.
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Illustration!

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This is something that we are quite good at but have done little of as Stingray Grafik Wurks but more so under our own names. Aimee’s work can be found at her main site: Aimee Ray.com

This gallery features work by JDRay and will be updated from time to time:

Just a random thought that came to me. I am pretty sure it was done before, but this is my own take on the topic!
Pop Art Joe (by JDRay!)
By JDRay!
By JDRay!
By JDRay!
Digital Painting by JDRay!
By JDRay!
By JDRay!
By JDRay!
By JDRay!
By JDRay!
by JDRay!
JDRay!
By JDRay!
By JDRay!
By JDRay!
My Graphic Novel page One
My Graphic Novel page Two
My Graphic Novel page Three
My Graphic Novel page Four
My Graphic Novel page Five