Brandfantom Sounds featuring Delron Young

Been on a creative benge lately. my home friend Delron Young has been doing karoke at local clubs on here in NW Arkansas for years hoping to get noticed so he can go into music full time. I tell him one night while at Jose’s Pizzaria (a place i also did the signage for) you really need to put together a demo or something. I tell him I can produces and arange his music and also design his album cover.
We both agreed that “Careless Whipser” by Wham would fit his tenor range best. So i recorded it and made it free to the public! I think we’ll be able to get Del some gig’s in Southwest Mizouri by summer.
I’m excited because not only is he getting his big break but this i my first professional album cover art works! I used a photo taken by lightingfla and added my typeography work and personal flares. Checkout our bandcamp site to check out

#New McDonald’s Logo

Hay Guys,

Sory I’ve been gone so long. a year and change of computer problems and I back. Stupid XPS! I just can’t aforda a another Apple again. Anyways totally different subject matter for another days.

I’ve been working a real lot lately on rebranding. I think that’s the best way to get my name out there and would be a good basics for my Fantom Advertising Group Inc business. I’ve targeting several heavy hitting well know brands starting with McDaonal’s. There logo is alway  just been a big yellow M. The arches done’t do any purpose. So I say to myself it’s time for #New McDonald’s Logo. Drop the arch but retain yellow and black (having something familiar helps the client fill more secure sometimes).

A mojor thing they were lacking in there logo was depth so i make sure to add that with some drop shadow and a spectered lens flare. I also use a more exotic font choice that will engage the viewer more. This font is call Papyrus (pronounced Pop-eh-russ). Giving it more pop i used a special emboss feature on photoshop (as Xisco calls it) and us a bend filter to give it more dimensionals.

next step is find out where McDonald HQ is and sell this logo to the owner Ray Crocker. I’ll keep you up stay tuned.

 

Koolaid Logo Pitch

Now this logo pitch was done another lifefime ago in one of my previos job.This is a logo that i didnt excute my-self but was a Creation Director of. Todd the intern used the computer and Adobes programing to bring my creation to life.
It is like a couple years old but i think it’s still relavent for the times. Koolaid has used the same logo for ever and needed to change it up the for the new milineam. So my idea was to make it slicker than now an add more newance and symbalism. In fact the Koolaid Star is supposed to reparsent the joyfil spark of flavor in each packet. I showed the logo in red and green so you can seeing how it work in diferent colors.
I still think it’s delicios looking logo that woud be perfect for them however Koolaid shelfed the logo and said they woud use it at a later date. I don’t know where it is now. It coud be in the same where-house as the Ark of the Covnent for all I know. Maybe one day it will be used-fingers crossed.

In honor of Febrary

Becase its black history month; I wanted to honor grate Africand-Amercans in a unique new way. So I thougt maybe i shoud make t-shirts and sell them to celibrate the festave ocassion. I just discovered about a site named Zazzle.com. i now know how to make a shirts, hoodies and many kinds apearal and sell them on-line!
Since he freed every Africand american in the world who better than to put on the shirt than Doctor Martin Luthar King Jr. The pic above is just a screan shot. It will be for sale after i get aprovle fromt the King istate to use that particuler image of Doctor King.

Lil Watchit – “Child Safety Interlude 2″

I totally for-got to post this track earlier. Enjoy.
Download Lil Watchit f/ DJ BF – Child Safety Interlude 2

Lil Watchit – “Road Safety”

This is a song about road safety I make for Lil Watch it & Watch It Kids. I really think this will encourage kids to do the right thing in the way checking for cars before crosseing the steets.
(Be pateint because loding my take a few seconds.)

Download Lil Watchit f/ DJ BF – Road Safety

Lil Watchit- “Safety Interlude 1″

Here’s one of the song about stranger safety I help to produce for Lil Watchit & Watch It Kids. The lyrics are brilliant. They mostly all belong to LW with just a little help and inspirations from me.

Download Lil Watchit f/ DJ BF – Child Safety Interlude 1

Watch It Kids and the BAGAG Program

So I was call to do a ton of freelancing works lately. Mostly for one new company called “Watch It Kids”. They develop a program called BAGAG (Be Aware Guys and Girls). With BAGAG they tell kids the dangers of everything from crossing the road to talking to strangers. But the thing I think separates them is the fact that hey are in-touched with the pulse of kids and know how to comunicate there message.

In fact the most edgy-kind of way they do it is through rap-hop music. They hired on a rapper man by the name of Lil Watchit (Terry Beggs) to pass important safety messages to the kids. Well, I ran into Lil Watchit at Jose’s Pizzaria a couple of week ago and he told me that he heard I had an inhome iMac studio and wanted me to help him produce so music for the program. I gladly accepted and the rest is history.

Marvisny

As most of you now by now Disney bought Marveled for like $4,0000,00,000 billion dollars. The next step for them is showing solidity and unitarianism as one company. The best ways to do show this is by a visual rebranding and Design Unification Manual™ also boringly known as a styleguide.

To make this happen my plan was simply to make it like a divorce in reverse. You take the best halfes of each and put them to-gather. The first thing I think was the name Marvisny. It was either that or Darvel ,which sounds like a dirty belly button, or Dismarvel wich sounds like a rap-hop artist trying to say ” Diss Marvel” because they hates them or something. Marvisny just have a certain ring to it. Naturally after firmly reaffirming the name I just decided to used the Marvel & Disney Fonts. The claws of Logan Mouse clearly create the M in Marvisny which includes the the present reality with touches of the past and indepentent glories of all days gone bye.

I want Disney to get my Marvisney graphics design but I’m taking a different approach this time. I’m going to send it to Jack Kirby and ask him to sell Disney Ceo Bob Iger. I’d send it to John Romita, Wolverine’s originate maker, but I can’t find his address. Kirby on the other hand i still has his address I got from him at a convention during my junior high school days. I figure if Jack Kirby show up at Igers office next weak to give him the logo, Bob Iger couldn’t ignore that. Besides I haven’t heard much from Kirby inthe last couple years so he’s probably not doing much else anyways. He probably would be grateful for the opportunity to get out for a change. Well, we’ll see what happens when I he gets the logo i FedEx’d him this morning.

NBC Universal: Lyfetymes TV

NBC Universal is the owner of Syfy former (SciFi Networking TV) and now of Lifetime channel because they bought them on August 27 according to Wicanpedia. Since there a was a-lot of ethernet buzz in chat rooms about how cool the new name and logo for Syfy are Xisco and me thought NBC may changing the name of Lifetime and look to like a Syfy styles of look.

Since this project is important to our lives of graphics designers and for the future of what will be Fantom Advertising Group, we each do a design. Xisco’s is the rite under Syfy. He went with a solid tradition, future modernistic look to be a family with the newest Syfy graphics design logo. I really liked how he made his look 3D so I asked him how he do it. Xisco showed me how to used the warp feature in Adobes and the rest was history.

My logo at the bottom is in mine own original style. I made up the spelling of Lyfetymes and the tagline to (X liked it so he used it to). I thinking that the name Syfy instead of SciFi lets the  network keep there name sound but allows them to make   shows and movies that aren’t only science friction. My new invented name Lyfetymes opens up the network to do stuff that isn’t always making us guys look like pervs, and wife abusers, and cheaters, and pervs, and just plain jerks. We see in time what they going to do though.

Xisco’s homes boy Esco works in the NBC Universal HQ. He’s the head man in charge of maintaining the office of all the executives. Since we have Esco as a point man Xisco mailed a copy of our logos to place on Jeff Zucker’s desk. We expect to hear back from Mr. Zucker after Labor Day. If not I’ll follow up with him.