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Simon H.

Cleveland, OH

Designer, photographer, blogger, husband. USofA, France. Currently accepting projects.

branding, illustration, illustrator, photoshop, poster, textures, visual identity

  1. Inktober 2017 Inktober 2017 Time to dust off the Dribbble profile - here are my Inktober 2017 entries. Instead of just drawing objects around me like last year, I decided to draw owls, then skulls, then music-related objects around me, then some random objects around me. You can have a closer look at all the drawings in the attachment. Fun tidbit: I actually drew two entries for 10/28, because I forgot I had already dr...
  2. Southampton Pedals - the humble beginnings Southampton Pedals - the humble beginnings I'm finally ready to share the extensive amount of work done over the years for Southampton Pedals, an independent guita pedal maker out of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. As a (bad) guitar player myself, this is one of my bucket list item checked, right there. It all started with this drawing of a Mullard EL91 vacuum tube I did back in 2012, when i first started experimenting with drawing on my trus...
  3. "10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!" "10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!" An entry for @Rogie 👑 's quote contest. I miss Robbin Williams a lot. (A closer look at the clean and textured versions is available in the attachments.
  4. Introducing the CMYK/RGB texture pack! Introducing the CMYK/RGB texture pack! Hello everybody! Let me present to you the latest from The Shop: the CMYK/RGB texture pack! These seventeen (17) textures were printed on a copier with a faulty toner, which gives them a grainy feel, along with noisy artifacts similar to risograph prints. The colors are cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, then red, green, and blue, then ten hues following a rainbow spectrum gradient. Each of t...
  5. Goshen Guitar Works, phase four: applications! Goshen Guitar Works, phase four: applications! With all the assets finalized, the various elements finally moved from the screen into the real world. The usual business cards, small logo banners, and the like happened. Also, a stamp (second frame). But more excitedly for the (not so great) guitar player I am, the shop started making their own T-style and S-style guitars! It's quite a special feeling to see the little tidbit I designed on...
  6. Goshen Guitar Works, phase three: final assets Goshen Guitar Works, phase three: final assets After all this variation work, we settled on a list of final assets to use: - The main mark, in its main color scheme, then in black and white - The secondary mark, in black and white. - The alternative color schemes we couldn't bring ourselves to leave out on the cutting floor You can have a closer look to all of these in the attachments.
  7. Goshen Guitar Works, phase three: fine tuning, secondary mark Goshen Guitar Works, phase three: fine tuning, secondary mark After the main mark got finalized in the previous step, we decided to see if simplifying things further for the secondary mark could be of interest. We decided to stick with the full version.
  8. Goshen Guitar Works, phase two: more stuff Goshen Guitar Works, phase two: more stuff To anchor the project some more within the guitar world, I hunted down the official colors from the big two guitar manufacturers out there (Fender, and Gibson), and went to work on creating combinations. Additionally, I also created a smaller footprint version for square application, and looked at various ways to apply color to it.
  9. Goshen Guitar Works, phase two: first digital pass Goshen Guitar Works, phase two: first digital pass After the sketches, it's time to do a first digital pass, draw the shapes, pick some typefaces, some color combos, etc. The first concept was based on a vintage bicycle head badge shape, but didn't translate well. The typeface used is Lost Type's Sullivan. The second concept was also based on a old badge shape of some kind (old kitchen appliance maybe?), but suffered from poor information hie...
  10. Goshen Guitar Works, phase one: sketches. Goshen Guitar Works, phase one: sketches. Here are some of the sketches done while working on the mark for Goshen Guitar Works. The attachment shows the pages in order, from not so great warm-up, to more structured ideas.
  11. Pencil test Pencil test I busted the pencils out for a style test for a project currently in progress. I'm a bit rusty (check out how distorted that front wheel is), but man does it feel good.
  12. Introducing the TV noise texture set! Introducing the TV noise texture set! Introducing The Shop's newest set of assets: the TV noise textures. I got inspired by an old CRT TV set I recently put my hands on. I grabbed my trusted DSLR (Nikon D60), and started snapping photographs of the static patterns. The resulting sixty-six (66!) images were lightly processed in Camera RAW (lens distortion, color correction, and straightening), for a giant collection of static moti...
  13. Ffffkrrrrshhhhhhhh Ffffkrrrrshhhhhhhh I'm working on a thing for something.
  14. Inktober 2016: day thirty-one Inktober 2016: day thirty-one Day thirty-one: a little jar of black ink.
  15. Inktober 2016: day thirty Inktober 2016: day thirty Day thirty: a USB connector.
  16. Inktober 2016: day twenty-nine Inktober 2016: day twenty-nine Day twenty-nine: an old webcam.
  17. Inktober 2016: day twenty-eight Inktober 2016: day twenty-eight Day twenty-eight: one of these connectors doubling headphone plugs.
  18. Inktober 2016: day twenty-seven Inktober 2016: day twenty-seven Day twenty-seven: a close-up shot of a head-mounted lamp.
  19. Inktober 2016: day twenty-six Inktober 2016: day twenty-six Day twenty-six: a tube of cream.
  20. Inktober 2016: day twenty-five Inktober 2016: day twenty-five Day twenty-five: the container for my 0.9 mm mechanical pencil leads.
  21. Inktober 2016: day twenty-four Inktober 2016: day twenty-four Day twenty-four: the removable wheel of a plastic storage bin.
  22. Inktober 2016: day twenty-three Inktober 2016: day twenty-three Day twenty-three: a used Earl Grey tea bag, resting in a jar lid.
  23. Inktober 2016: day twenty-two Inktober 2016: day twenty-two Day twenty-two: a retractable roll measure.
  24. Inktober 2016 - Day twenty-one Inktober 2016 - Day twenty-one Day twenty-one: a binder clip.
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