Happy V-Day!

Highlight This Book!

Copyright © 2005-2009 José Cruz/Klutz Books.
Art Direction: Anne Schultz

Here are a couple of b/w with color spreads for the Klutz' Chicken Socks Book, Highlight This Book! They are fun to work with.
And people say I can't do children oriented material!

Happy Easter!

Happy Passover!

Happy St. Paddy's Day

The Things We Do 4 Love!

My nephew, Polo the Tennis Pro, came up to me and asked for a favor for me to do a rendition (from a really bad sketch) of two rackets and a ball for his Tennis Camp at The J in Dallas, Texas. Being the dutiful Graphic Design Uncle/Tío, I agreed for a couple of dinners at my favorite Thia food restaurant, Bangkok City Restaurant on the corner of Bryan and Peak in Dallas.In conjuction to that I was also asked by my brother, Roberto the Spanish Teacher/Tennis Coach, to provide him with a set of 30 Bingo cards for his classes @ Seagoville High School. His wife got the dinners, I got a left over meat loaf.BTW- It was complicated having to remember in groups of 1-15, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60, and 61-75. Each card had to have a different set of numbers and after a while I kept repeating numbers like 2, 9, 23, 24, 49, 55, 59, 66, 70, and 71 a lot for no apparent reason and putting numbers in wrong columns.
I'm good at Geometry but lousy at math.

Martin Luther King Day!

His DREAM has come TRUE!

Happy 2009 America!

Happy T-Day!

My simple design for Thanksgiving Day.

Feliz Muertos!

My simple design of the Day of the Dead.

Happy Pumpkin!

My Simple Design for Halloween.

icon©last-State Fair of Texas Icons

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Icons for the Go! Guide weekend newspaper supplement. See how they was done @ my X-Factor-E Blog.
CD: Cynthia Wahl
Client: Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

Big Tex!

Copyright © 2008 José Cruz/Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

Simple Design Illustration for the Go! Guide cover. See how it was done @ my X-Factor-E Blog.
CD: Cynthia Wahl
Client: Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

Art Deco!

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Here is the Geometrix masthead for my old blog.

Politically Speaking!

Barack Obama

Joe Biden

John McCain

Sarah Palin

In Memory of Those Who Died!

Se Dice Que... Poster

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Here is a poster I designed for the art of my friend, Sylvia Velasquez-Borbolla for the Hispanic Women's Network of Texas in celebration of Latina Art.

BTW- I taught her to paint!

Flip-Trip!

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Don't ask why but none of these 28 sketches did the trick to replace the old Logo
for FLIP Skateboards!
All they just kept saying was "More Trippy, More Trippy!"
Which is why I came up with The AD's Don't List!
WHATEVER!

Shooting for the Stars!

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I sent out a few of these brochures to some well chosen Art Directors to help promote my Simple Designs of The Sopranos. The brochure opens up to be a shooting target based on a real target. A few were actually printed over the actual targets.
If you got one of these pin it to your bulletin board and throw darts at it or take it out to the range and blow the sh!t out of it!

icon©last-Movie Speak Icons

I've recently worked on some sample icons for the book, Movie Speak by Director/Producer, Tony Bill.
Never got the go ahead on doing the whole book as planned but that's how it goes out here in the Old West!