Middle Ear Media

September Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

The Sep­tem­ber poster for Harley’s Lounge fea­tures a photo of an old Polaroid cam­era at the top. This cam­era rep­re­sents those spe­cial moments in life that can be cap­tured instantly, but will even­tu­ally fade away to be replaced by oth­ers. The cam­era sits on a wooden shelf and is peak­ing out from under­neath a dark, […]

August Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

The August poster for Harley’s Lounge fea­tures the Mayan cal­en­dar both as the cen­ter piece as well as the back­ground. In the cen­ter, it is cov­ered by white splat­ter which makes the title eas­ier to read. For the back­ground, I used a gray, brushed metal tex­ture. Also, the large Mayan cal­en­dar in the back­ground is […]

Wings and Seeds — The Zaagkii Project

There is a project I’ve been work­ing on lately that I’d like to share with you called Wings and Seeds — The Zaagkii Project. It is a native plant and pol­li­na­tor pro­tec­tion ini­tia­tive that began in 2008. It’s all about rec­og­niz­ing that pol­li­na­tion is an essen­tial eco­log­i­cal func­tion for our sur­vival, and then doing something […]

July Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

The July poster for Harley’s Lounge incor­po­rates a military-industrial style in honor of my brother who recently re-enlisted in the ser­vice. The font used is Sten­cil BT for that “mil­i­tary crate” look. The color scheme for the copy is based on cam­ou­flage and includes var­i­ous greens, rust brown and gray. A light drop shadow helps […]

The 2010 Anthony Line

Although Anthony & Co., Inc. has been pro­duc­ing adver­tis­ing spe­cialty items for over fifty years, I’ve only been design­ing their web site for twelve. The last major update was done about three years ago, so I was glad to get a chance to redesign basi­cally from scratch. The idea here was to cre­ate a simple, […]

June Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

For the June poster design, I used a close-up photo of some old barn wood for the back­ground. I love the rugged look of the wood. It has such a great, weath­ered char­ac­ter and so much depth. I added a lit­tle flare and con­trast with three brightly col­ored gears. The way the gears over­lap each […]

New and Improved Portfolio

I just thought I’d let you know about a few changes I’ve made to this site (middleearmedia.com) lately. Noth­ing too dras­tic really, but I’d like to doc­u­ment the evo­lu­tion here. Just some minor styl­is­tic changes and pro­gres­sive enhance­ments here and there. Most impor­tantly, I redesigned my port­fo­lio. I’ll get into more about that in […]

May Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

For the May poster design, I used a photo of the rocks at Presque Isle on the shore of Lake Supe­rior for the back­ground. By lay­ing a close-up image of the rocks over the clear blue sky, I achieved an effect sim­i­lar to satel­lite imagery of clouds.

I chose a sans serif font for read­abil­ity. The […]

April Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

For the April poster design, I kept it fairly sim­ple with a focus on read­abil­ity. I used a dark gray to black gra­di­ent for the back­ground, then added a very faint but highly warped ver­sion of the text for a lit­tle bit of atti­tude. Finally, I chose white, and a cou­ple shades of vibrant blue […]

March Poster Design for Harley’s Lounge

For the March poster design, I returned to the idea of doing a text based design that I had last month. The lay­out is loosely struc­tured around the sacred geom­e­try of a golden spi­ral that sweeps out from the bot­tom right cor­ner and curves around from the upper left to the upper right cor­ner where […]