NFL Team Posters Coming Soon...

I've been getting a ton of very positive feedback from the Baseball Poster Series I did over the past few days. Can't even begin to describe how appreciative and beside myself I am to have people enjoy my work. I worked my ass off on it and it seems like people are digging them. If you know me, then you know just how much I love baseball, so doing that project was more like play rather than work.

Because of the feedback I've gotten, I've decided to do an NFL Poster Series next. I've started the grunt work of creating each file and setting up its appropriate color scheme. So far, I've gotten the NFC team files prepped and ready to go. If all goes well, I should have the entire NFC done by late next week. Those will go up in the store first, followed by the AFC teams the following week. Hopefully I can get all the teams up in time for Father's Day, since we all know our Dad's only love beer more than they love football (albeit a close second).

Game Of Thrones Houses Reimagined

Shutterstock took it upon themselves to reimagine what the Game Of Thrones houses would look like if they were brands in modern times. Incredibly clever and surprisingly well executed. Leave it to the guys at Shutterstock (arguably the most valuable asset to graphic designers) to put together such a cool concept.

Check it out the original post here.

New Arrested Development Trailer

Mark your calendars, May 26th will soon be here.

Netflix will be streaming all episodes of the highly awaited Season 4 of the best show not on television.

In the meantime, here's a brand new trailer of some season 4 clips that are strongly reaffirming that the writers picked up EXACTLY where they left off.

3 New Poster Designs

I have 15 more team posters available here: 

http://emiliobernard.com/store/

All 30 teams will be available as soon as I drink 8 more gallons of coffee and lock myself away next week.

Palomino Restaurant Branding

Contemporary and rustic style branding for Palomino Restaurant. This piece has been featured on a few other sites and I couldn't resist posting it here as well. The color palette is perfect and the rustic feel is executed masterfully. Even if the food sucked, I'd still tip at 25% just because of how great their branding was done. Check out the more shots here.

Baltimore Orioles Illustration

The Blue Jays Illustration was such a nice practice piece that I decided to keep it up and do a Baltimore Orioles Illustration.

Blue Jay Illustration

I felt like I've been neglecting the pen tool lately, as I've been working in InDesign quite a bit for some freelance projects. Illustrator is the type of program that needs to be constantly used or you end up building a little rust on your skills, which leads to frustration when it comes time to actually need to use it. So I decided to freshen up the skills with this little project. This is a simple illustration made in Illustrator using basic shapes and some drop shadow to create a "paper" effect, which I love doing. The font used is Moonshiner.

UPDATE: So I decided to mix my love of Baseball with my love of color and illustration. I did some minor text changes and now the Blue Jay illustration can represent the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball team.

Anxious Flyer?

After having a particularly rough flight a few months ago, I've developed a bit of an anxiety towards flying. In reality, it wasn't an insanely rough flight, but it the plane was bucking for the better portion of the 4.5 hour flight. Regardless, since that flight I've let the thought of flying become an unneeded anxiety in my life. My coping mechanism for stuff like this is usually to use cold hard facts and information to starve whatever emotion is driving the anxiety. In this case, I watched videos, read crash reports, looked up statistics per country/airline/distance flown, and learned a little aviation history in order to try and shake this fear of cruising 600mph at 36,000 feet, but alas, I couldn't shake it. Then I stumbled across this article from the aptly named, Anxieties.com. The article is worded in just the right way to relate to the emotional side of flying anxiety, while still punching out enough statistics to appeal to the logical side. I found it to be quite helpful in easing some preflight anxiety and hopefully it may do the same for my fellow anxious flyers.

HereIsToday [.com]

HereIsToday.com is an interactive site solely dedicated to putting you in your place. Using a beautifully designed minimal user interface, the site shows you where you are in terms of time relative to now, this month, this year, this century, this millennium, this epoch, etc. Instead of throwing large numbers and percentages at you, HereIsToday uses colorful bars to give you a sense of how short our time on this earth is relative to the beginning of time. If you dig infographics and informative minimal web layouts, then this site is worth a glance.

Socialism Ain't So Bad Comrade.

I came across this article discussing one expatriate's experience living in France. She juggles a marriage, job, and children, with much help from the French government. If you  or anyone you know has children and a full time job, then it should be easy to relate to this and get a taste of what living in a socialist country can be like. My brief experience "living" in Sweden has made me slightly biased towards the socialist system, but this article provides a different perspective, which I, a childless fellow in my mid-twenties, simply can't provide. Check out the article by Claire Lundberg here.

"Immortality" by Stephen Cave.

Bought this book on a whim and it ended up being richly informative. Cave brings an interesting theory to the table regarding human civilization and what drives us to continue as a species. The title pretty much hits it on the head. Cave takes on the four ways in which we try to live forever. He sometimes drifts into slightly unneeded history lessons, but the book reads easily and will induce some necessary death-anxiety at least a few times. For more info about Stephen Cave, check out his site here.

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

The following are some pictures from the book, "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats," by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluision. The images document what each family from different countries consumes in one week.

How We Perceive Our Timeline

This video popped up into my RSS feed earlier this week. This eccentric "Vsauce" fellow actually manages to break our perception of time passing down into an easily digestible morsel of existential crisis-inducing information.

The first half talks about the biology of aging, while the second half (around 2:30 in) deals with how we perceive time passing and why it feels as if the years fly by when you're old.

First Pitch

So this is the first post on this little blog experiment. I've heard it's good practice as a designer to share links, images, occasional thoughts, and useful tips. I normally despise the type of people who feel they need to catalog every aspect of their lives for friends and creeps to gawk at over their respective computer screens, so I will try my best to only share useful/relevant information. There won't be pictures of kittens, instragram'd food, or non-sensical ramblings. If you'd like to see that stuff, then there are entire social networks dedicated to that smut.