Category: Creative
Here are some samples of my design work over the years.
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Empire Coffee & Donuts
I shot some sexy donut photographs yesterday for a small coffee shop in Geneva, NY. This place has quickly become a gem of the Finger Lakes in only about eighteen months. The proprietor Dan Goodwin saw a potential niche for an independent coffee shop and cafe…that made truly fresh donuts.
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Finger Lakes Times – Feature
I’ve been working around the clock on the 2nd annual Geneva Jazz Festival + Scott Lafaro Celebration (April 4-7, 2024). This is event is a passion project not only rooted in my love of jazz music, but also my appreciation of history. And the pride I feel for my (current) home city Geneva, NY. I…
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I Quit
St. Patrick’s Day will always hold special meaning for me. On March 17, 2010 I finally kicked my cigarette habit. After many years of smoking I finally summoned the willpower to give up the nasty habit. I wrote a haiku to commemorate the achievement. If you smoke hope that you will try to quit. It’s…
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Support My Work
In my 25 years as a creative arts professional, the landscape has changed dramatically. The advance of technology and prevalence of personal electronic devices have impacted the earning potential in creative fields. With these tools at hand – now almost anyone can pursue work in areas of music, graphic design, photography, copywriting, illustration, web development,…
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Toddler Spacewalk
I’m a graphic designer in an online group for “Photoshop Requests”. Users upload their own photograph as make request for Photoshop wizards to make corrections, improvements, troll, or fantastical image manipulations. Here’s one of my original Photoshop edits. In the original post the person uploaded this photo of their son and requested that we put…
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Juggalo Make Up
I’m a graphic designer in an online group for “Photoshop Requests”. Users upload their own photograph as make request for Photoshop wizards to make corrections, improvements, troll, or fantastical image manipulations. Here’s one of my original Photoshop edits. In the original post the person uploaded this photo of a co-worker and requested that we troll…
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Seinfeld Marine Biologist
I’m in an online group for “Seinfeld Fanatics”. It’s common for users to upload their own beach photo…and ask someone to photoshop George into the image. I typically ignore these since they’re pretty incessant, and I don’t want to encourage people. But with this one I couldn’t resist to put the beached whale from he…
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Elf Kiss
I’m a graphic designer in an online group for “Photoshop Requests”. Users upload their own photograph as make request for Photoshop wizards to make corrections, improvements, troll, or fantastical image manipulations. Here’s one of my original Photoshop edits. In the original post the person uploaded this photo of their daughter and requested that we put…
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Photo Editing
Jelly-o cake chocolate bar marzipan. Jelly tootsie roll liquorice pastry brownie donut. Chocolate cake soufflé chocolate tiramisu cake candy cake sesame snaps. Sweet roll danish chocolate bar chupa chups tiramisu lemon drops. Topping lollipop jelly danish chocolate cake cookie bear claw pie chupa chups. Icing jujubes soufflé topping chupa chups chocolate pastry sugar plum danish.…
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Original Mind
A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over a hundred species and thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing or trailing with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers…
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Block Quote Example
Meantime Giorgio, with tranquil movements, had been unfastening the door; the flood of light fell on Signora Teresa, with her two girls gathered to her side, a picturesque woman in a pose of maternal exaltation. Behind her the wall was dazzlingly white, and the crude colours of the Garibaldi lithograph paled in the sunshine. Old…
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Standard Format with Featured Image
At night the body of clouds advancing higher up the sky smothers the whole quiet gulf below with an impenetrable darkness, in which the sound of the falling showers can be heard beginning and ceasing abruptly—now here, now there. Indeed, these cloudy nights are proverbial with the seamen along the whole west coast of a…
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Inspire & Motivate People
Human faces are very powerful. User Experience designer Aarron Walter describes in his book Designing for Emotion why we appreciate human faces so much. He explains that we are constantly exploring the world around us by looking for something familiar. Familiarity gives us a feeling of comfort and reassurance. When we see a face, we…
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Typesetting & Design
Human faces are very powerful. User Experience designer Aarron Walter describes in his book Designing for Emotion why we appreciate human faces so much. He explains that we are constantly exploring the world around us by looking for something familiar. Familiarity gives us a feeling of comfort and reassurance. When we see a face, we…
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Beautiful Landscape
Ice cream cotton candy powder pudding. Caramels pie jelly sweet roll marzipan croissant tiramisu. Icing sugar plum fruitcake marzipan powder powder bonbon cheesecake apple pie. Jelly beans dessert caramels. Macaroon dragée cotton candy carrot cake liquorice lemon drops. Biscuit powder icing tootsie roll dessert. Powder fruitcake caramels ice cream. Gingerbread bonbon gingerbread liquorice pie sesame…
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Gallery
Gallery with Jetpack plugin’s Tiled Gallery. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam dolor enim, convallis semper tortor sed, tristique volutpat eros. Vivamus ut auctor arcu. Curabitur in scelerisque elit. Proin hendrerit vulputate nisl nec consequat. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Cras commodo sagittis pretium.…
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Website Design Portfolio
From 2002-2012 Michael owned and operated Stargroove Collective. This was the business Michael worked as a freelance graphic designer, web developer, and marketer. Although he still enjoys computer programming and graphic design…they are only hobbies now. Browse the links below to view samples of Michael’s portfolio. Scroll down to view screenshots of websites designed by…
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