banners banners and banners

So portfolio reviews is coming soon and every semester we have to present our work using "digication" portfolios. i don't know if "digication is a real word but long story short digication portfolio is not a good place to showcase images. every time i upload images to that site it ends up being color corrected or pixalated. but this is not a place to rant about portfolio websites instead were going to talk about banners for digication portfolio. one good thing about digication portfolios website is that it lets you have a 779 × 200 pixels banner on the top of your page. every semester i change the banner of my portfolio because i get tired of looking at the same thing after a while. one thing that never changes is my mendez logo. this semester i could not make up my mind so i did more than five versions of the portfolio banners. its usually fun when i make these banners for my page but this semester making these banners was a little frustrating since i was never satisfied with the final result. after working hard on these i was able to find a banner that i was happy with.

The next note logo debuts

Hello everyone! long time no see! so my Next Note logo  finally made it to the general public. This is the first time my work gets printed on a banner this size. I was very happy with the final results of this project and also it was a honor for me to be part of this project.

Photography by Michael. G

The unlucky ones

for a class assigment they told me to re-design the pepsi logo. as promised, here are all versions of the pepsi logo that i created. click here to see the logo that survived. (click to enlarge)

The next note: improvements have been made

here is the revised version /the one that people from the conference liked most. hopefully they approved this final version of the logo..

and here are the unlucky ones....

the next note: what does it mean??

lately i've been working on a logo for "The next note conference" [its a conference for aspiring musicians] and i'm having  what they call designers block. i feel like my first draft is really plain and boring. i'm worried that i'm gonna be doing something generic like a musical note or something similar. here is my current progress: 

ps: sorry for not posting new stuff these past few days!
i was super busy this past week.

My take on pepsi.

As a class assignment, i was told to re design the Pepsi logo. pepsi changes its logos every few years and its always a spin off  of their old logo. i tried to follow the example and i came up with this logo. i will post the rejected logos in my next post. when i was working on this i was going against professional designers [not literary, but people are going compare this logo to the old one] so, i think i did i pretty good job as a student.

Fancy Panda!

This is my take on post-stamp design. the professor told us to make a drawing that shows "value". since i was distracted when he gave us the assignment (busy worrying about my English test ), i made a flat illustration of a panda. one of my classmates saw what i was doing and then he told me that it had to be an illustration that showed shading or "value" in a sense.  so i did i a hand drawing and scan it using illustrator. i did not wanted to waste my firs drawing so i decided to make that into an logo. behold: fancy panda!