BYU Hawaii Desktop Wallpaper

I was actually working on a video project using this type of design. When we decided that we werent going to use that video, I didn't want to waste the design, so I turned it into a computer desktop wallpaper for BYU Hawaii. I use it on many computers I use daily to show some school pride. I think its time to do another one too!

First T-Shirt Design

I was asked to create a T-shirt design for a ward here in the BYU-H 1st Stake. Although it wasn't chosen (I think it was too complex for the budget, plus, I'm not actually in the ward), I still thought it was a fun project.

I felt like their ward had really good unity and were a perfect example of a ward family. I liked the slogan from Cheers "where everybody knows your name", so I made the text to look similar to the Cheers logo. Obviously, there is a bit of style goin on too!

Devotional Attitude

This was one of my first projects at BYU Hawaii. I was asked to create an entire campaign for promoting devotionals, which kind of expanded into just promotion of devotion.

After researched I narrowed down the reasons to attend devotionals into 3 main categories: Spiritual, community, and leadership. I talked with Bill Wallace, known as Uncle Bill, and he helped me select some symbols to represent the three themes. I didn't do much with this for a while, until my boss, Duane, came and said one day at about 3, "I need poster designs to show at Presidents council tomorrow".

So I whipped these up in a few hours. They haven't made it to print, but the Hawaiian theme will likely be kept. Someone else is doing most of the project now.

My Online Portfolio

First posts are always monumental. This is no exception!

Recently, a BYU professor and some students visited BYU Hawaii campus and put on some animation workshops. I was assigned to set up and document this event. I also learned some things from this group. One suggestion they made to artists of every kind was to have a blog dedicated to showing works in progress. I decided I wanted to try that too. Today I finally settled on doing it and got moving right away. I plan to put in progress works on here so that people can comment and add suggestions.

This blog is going to be my first example of my work. I have designed the layout and the banner of course. I was kinda hoping to not use a Samoan word in the title, but I just like the idea too much. Tufuga is a very meaningful word (see definition in sidebar). I hope that I could after all be considered a tufuga in the fields of motion graphics, print, and art.

My video demo reel is already posted on the sidebar, with photos to follow. I hope to start posting my projects very soon. Please comment so I can get feedback.