Save the date for the annual Dean Johnson One Piece Show. Happening December 5th at the Factory Arts in the Schweitzer Gallery. Free to the public. For more information visit the official Dean Johnson / F60 website.
2025 One Piece Show
graphic design
2025 Art of Politics
Save the date(s) The Art of Politics is back for its 5th year, September 26, 2025. More information available.
Nestled in the Factory Arts District in the Schweitzer Gallery, 1125 Brookside Avenue, 60 posters will be on display and up for an auction to support non-profit organizations. Music (DJ Rusty Redenbacher), beer, wine, and Shapiro’s deli desserts.
Wether you like art or an artist, this is always an interesting show. It’s not too late to participate, email lars@timberjackgoods.com
New products
After many months of planning, designing, printing, all three card packs are ready to help people learn more about Siri, Alexa & Google Assistant are available & ready to ship. The website is complete and the square store is up and running. I still need to get these up on Amazon and begin a social marketing strategy.
New Year, New Trajectory
What have I been up to this year? What are the plans? And why where there so many posts reference Magic: The Gathering cards?
MAGIC CARDS: These cards were part of an art piece featuring 18 Magic cards. I ‘designed’, ‘wrote copy’ and art directed 50 cards as an experiment using AI. This included; prompt strategy, creating images and text using AI. The final piece only used 18 finalized cards. It’s customary before an art show, to post ‘teasers’ of your final entry. I posted one card per day to engage socially and promote the event. Due to my experiments with AI, I incorporated an AI sub-section under ideation focused on AI image creation.
2025: New focus on new endeavors! Job hunting has been challenging, but I’m not giving up or waiting for others to define me or my path. I’ve decided to delve in the design-product space and launch two products in 2025—one in the first quarter and the other in the second. You may have noticed a new “Products tab” in the main menu of my website. Details are limited for now, more to come as launch day approaches.
Eisheth Zenunim, Jerry’s Rep
LAST CARD: This is the last card to be added to this page. The amount of writing and development time was considerable in this project – each card was a mini project.
OVERALL: This card was one of the cards printed on metal and contained a QR code. The name Eisheth Zenunium came from an internet search of top popular demon names. This card is from a parallel set of directional series called ‘Jerry Directionals’. This set was similar to UX directionals but the signage was my name instead of UX.
(NEW) AI IMAGERY: This image is one of the top images due to the great composition. Unlike other card images, there is a lot of fire to show the extent and power of the wizard mage. Anytime a figure is emersed in fire without burning, there is a good understanding of the blowback that might be coming your way. The book of Jerry is hot! I needed to photoshop the QR code on the Jerry book. I was pleased that the QR codes work when reversed out of imagery. My only nit is the armor shine is rather white considering the amount of flame surrounding the figure but the white highlights do bring more focus to the figure.
Lamia, Hiring Manager
OVERALL: The name Lamia came from an internet search of top popular demon names. This card is from a parallel set of directional series called ‘Jerry Directionals’. This set was similar to UX directionals but the signage was my name instead of UX.
(NEW) AI IMAGERY: Overall great composition with a lot of subtle work going on. The figure and the sign compete for attention in this layout. The AI created the Jerry Sign really huge, more like a billboard. The font for Jerry was crazy and odd. Its seems to have created each letter separately – look at the two R’s. The structure of the sign is very dark yet Flintstone in design. The color-choice of red for the lettering makes Jerry really stand out. The background is outside and lighter than the other dark forest imagery created by AI. The figure has no armor but appears to have razor sharp Demi-gaunts. The figures hair is swooping not sure if it’s wind or scary magical hair that will kill me. The figure is also holding large dagger which is cropped out.
Syr Velasco, UX Champion
OVERALL: This is from the UX Design series called ‘UX Directionals’. These were created to show the focus of UX by having a fantasy character hold a UX sign. There was some spicy cards and some less-spicy cards – this was one of the less-spicy images as the figure is completely covered in armor. Syr is a knight pre-fix neuter version Sir. Creature is me, the job seeker UX Designer / Graphic Designer. As of this post, I am still seeking employment.
[I’m adding a new section below as it will be the differentiating factor of the leave-behind cards. The game attributes won’t change from card to card.]
AI IMAGERY: AI prompting is somewhat experimental and a journey of finding the image you want. I was impressed with this composition. The lighting is good and the mood was dark and scary. The highlights on the armor indicate a small village of perhaps a fire near the figure. The sign shape had a fantasy shape with sharp edges. Knights are considered good agents generally, however this one appears more of a dark nature. The silhouette creates a good number of sharp edges to the armor. The UX font color was red which aligned to the color identity of the card itself.
GAME ATTRIBUTES: This card wasn’t design to be played – it was to be used as a business card during the event. I wouldn’t recommend playing this card but if you had to, this would be a 2/2 creature with death touch and haste. It would be a good 1 mana play on turn 1. The in-game mana abilities wouldn’t help during the game at all unless you were playing me and I might have to leave to meet with you during a game and lose the game out of forfeit.
Jerry, The Fangbearer – 2/18
All updates are available in the card by card 2024 reveal section
OVERALL: This card is about how I carry myself. I am quiet more than most people but I extremely well at listening/ observing skills – I typically pick-up details that are often missed by others. I am also strategic in my actions especially with design work. I like the long-game. Seeing and discovering patterns which add up through time to something bigger is important.
GAME ATTRIBUTES: Black/Green Deathtouch creatures are the worst adding forced in-game fighting is a extra layer of board state removal making for very successful single play creature spell.
A link on my website will assist users in comprehending the anatomy of Magic: The Gathering cards. Understanding details will deepen understanding of the cards’ intricacies I’ve created.
This piece is available for review at the Schwitzer Gallery at Circle City Industrial Complex (CCIC) through June. It remains unsold and will be off the market at the end of the show on June 30th, 2024. It is priced at $2,000.
2024 Limited edition Graphic Tee – $30
I like to wear a small part of my artwork for the opening night. Sticker Mule did a great job this year with the ‘direct to garment’ custom t-shirt process. I was really happy with the results.
Above is a detail of the shirt graphic. The color is bright and detailed and the image is well-adhered to the fabric. I would definitely recommend Sticker Mule custom tee-shirt process to any organization needing fast efficient images applied to tee-shirts.
JVS 