Gary Ritchie is a designer and digital artist living in Pittsburgh, USA, working for both large corporations and small businesses creating visual effects, corporate identity, building web presence, and illustration.
Cinemanix Productions has been open and serving up some sweet visual effects and animation services to both Pittsburgh area and national clients since 2003. On February 7 they opened their doors to local ad agency folk and film students — thanks to Women In Film and Media, Pittsburgh, who organized the event and sent out invites.
Filed under: Announcement, Cinemanix
This interactive sales tool was primarily created for use in a trade show booth for display on a wide-aspect plasma screen. It will also be used by the company’s sales team to present the product to potential buyers.
Icons, those little clever representations of larger ideas, are one of the most challenging and enjoyable tasks for this designer.
Software, websites, t-shirts all deserve meaningful and attention-getting pictograms. Most icons are designed in a way to be used at any size and resolution, enabling the same artwork to be used in both print and on the screen.
Filed under: Illustration, Icon
This site was designed for Cinemanix Productions client, Millennium Pharmacy Systems, Inc.
In addition to design services, a static site was delivered so the client could incorporate existing server applications.
This is a revival of the type specimin found in my remake of the Save Light, Save Coal poster by Phillip Coles.
Filed under: Typeface, Work in progress
This is the first in a series of articles on how, as a freelancer, I have improved and optimized some of the more mundane aspects of running my design business.
Repeat business is a blessing for any business owner. But when you are asked to retrieve a project that you worked on 2 years ago you get this sinking feeling inside.
Here, I outline my file naming convention, archival, and retrieval strategy…
Filed under: Process,