Often times someone has needed something for some reason so I find myself designing to help fullfil a need that is known or unknown. The unknown is interesting because I find myself designing things that I would not have thought off.
These are fun projects that I have worked on at various times thought out life for one reason or another. I am not a graphic designer, but I have an eye for details (thanks to my parents) so I often "see" when somethings "incorrect", then work towards figuring out how to fix it.
I have done some basic logos on paper, the back of cigarette carton card board (an awesome medium to use), Gimp and Procreate basically out of nessecity of helping someone or just my own curiosity about the design or redesign.
I find that I tend to "gravitate" towards designing or creating things that are a good quality and as close to "free" as possible. Part of it is because of not having money often times when I needed to build a project, but also the constraint of not having access money to throw out a problem helps make the solution more streamlined.
Many of the things that I have designed use a combination of freehand, Royalty free images (Stock images, clip art, etc) and whatever other free or paid tools I might find to accomplish my goal. I have not been a great artist but I have a good eye for design, simplicity and proportions. I have learned and improved many of my skills along the way as well. I have done a number of minimalistic company logos, t shirts and fun concept designs seen below.
Soda bottle redesign (never used)
This was just a fun redesign...random thought / curiosity
Youth camp t shirt design
Youth camp t shirt design
Store logo design
Store front window logo design
Company logo
Company logo (assisted)
Company logo
Important "notice"
Merged chess set concept (just for fun)
Other types of designing I have been involved with
QR Code creation using Shortcuts app and simple web design
Helped open source project with improving margin math, UX, and documentation
Help get screenshots and create some simple images for Tides Fandom page
Digital display using Raspberry Pi and Google Slides for simple editing
Square POS credit card magstrip keychain case
Restaurant menu UI design, recipes and preperation process
Golden Triad grid: 2 page spread issue when viewing picture book on phone
Guitar App UI and UX design to solve some of my issues with guitar apps
Fun "chick" pea art animation using Procreate
3d printable pen, marker and stapler holder
Documentation 3 layer formating UX design
Coin Box POS UI / UX design concept art