Kickstarter has been a great place for creative people in the past few years. Friends and fans now can directly contribute to worth-while causes, fueling artists to pursue their passions. When the musicians of Dr. Manhattan wanted to take the original mastered version of their first album and give fans the vinyl experience, they took to Kickstarter for the support. This shirt served as one of the thank you’s for the fans that supported the pressing.
Town Bench is the center of design and illustrative exploration for Brent Burdick.
Seeing as graphic design is often a mixture of business and personal sensabilities, I hope you enjoy the various projects and the stories behind the pixels.
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Town Bench is the resource behind Live Free or Pie - a pizza loving community devoted to the craft. Eat real pizza friends!
Barry the Gift-Giving Elephant
The fine tradition of the White Elephant gift exchange is a popular one around the holidays (in New England we called them Yankee Swaps). At AKA MEDIA INC., we thought this poor elephant had shouldered the burden of unacceptable gifts for far too long. We decided to celebrate this year’s holiday by giving this elephant its due diligence. As an expert at awful gifts.
The Story Behind the Bench
In between a bank, a historic stone church, and the local post office in Newmarket, New Hampshire lie the cultural and social center of its townsfolk. Kids stood guard over it as they recited the day’s arduous events. Parents sat upon it seeking solitude and a view of the towns historic old mills. Out-of-Towners momentarily occupied it as they tried to imagine exactly how far away from civilization they were. The essence and story of Town Bench is not just about a sitting apparatus, but rather about a town, it’s people, and a single bench tying it all together.
The Triangle of Truth
One of the many services AKA MEDIA INC. offers to its clients are called SMTs, or Satellite Media Tours. These tours allow a celebrity, talent, or professional an easy way to communicate his or her message to various people in the media. AKA’s theory behind a successful SMT, called the Triangle of Truth, needed to provide users with a map to victory. It was my job to make that map.
It’s Your Story Illustrations
Every story needs to be illustrative. Writers use their words to paint pictures of vast worlds and jaunty characters. Bob Ross used paints and a smile to bring people into his various landscapes. AKA MEDIA INC. uses video, radio, web, and TV to paint their client’s stories.