S.R. Wild: Artist and Graphic Designer

2008 VIFF Poster

I’ve been extremely busy the last few weeks because I’m helping the Vermont International Film Festival again this year. I’ve logged an average of 40 hours a week — that’s in addition to the 40+ hours at my full-time gig.

I designed and built their website, which looks the same as last year (for now), but it has a lot more functionality — it’s the most complicated website I’ve ever built. I’m also designing all of their print materials, like the festival program and poster. The festival program is due at the printer on Monday and I’ve barely started working on it — AHHHHHHH!!!! The poster, however, is done and I just picked it up from the printer about an hour ago. Now that it is officially finished, I thought I’d take a break and share it with you, my faithful readers.

I have to get back to work and perform a miracle. More Coffee? Yes, please.

(Sort of) Recent Work

I’ve been meaning to put up some of my recent work, but it’s a chore that I haven’t gotten around to (one of many). Tonight, I dug up and uploaded a few things from a few months ago that I’ve wanted to get up here.

First, is the poster and website I did for the Vermont International Film Festival (VtIFF) back in September and October. I also established the branding that was used on everything for the festival. This included the logo, which I didn’t exactly redesign. Bill Simmon let me borrow a metal disk with an old VtIFF logo cut out of it that was used for projecting (think Batman symbol searchlight). It was burnt and lovely. I scanned it, reworked it, and added some modified type. It’s funny, there was an article in a local paper about the festival and they wrote “The VIFF has a hip new logo designed by artist [not my name]….” Oh well, it’s not a big deal — although I would have liked to get some ink. It’s not the writer’s fault (her writing is top-notch by the way) or anyone else’s, there was just some confusion in festival’s press release.

Way back in July, I designed a t-shirt for Seven Days’ t-shirt design contest. I didn’t win, but my design was one of the clever designs that did not make the final cut.

That’s all for now. I’ll have more up soon eventually. Right now, I’m focused on redesigning this site instead of adding more stuff. When it’s done there will be tons of stuff to gawk at.

Björk Poster Submission

After many crashes, I was finally able to finish my submission. Luckily, the deadline was extended to midnight. It came out all right considering I only spent a couple hours on it—most of it spent scanning.

Stuck in Vermont's New Home

The ever-productive, blogger/vlogger/YouTuber extraordinaire, and the one who inspired me to start my own blog: Eva the Deadbeat and her vlog, Stuck in Vermont, have a new home at Seven Days. All of us here at S.R. Wild Industries wish her the best of luck.

In addition to its new home, STVT has a new logo. It was designed by S.R. Wi… er, me. I’m actually quite happy with it and even happier that my client is happy. I just wish I had been able to finish it sooner, but I can’t think of better maiden voyage for a logo than a Sonic Youth vlog.

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