Portfolio: "What Was He Thinking?"
"What Was He Thinking" is an example of me setting out to design a piece of merch specifically for WhyTheAlgarve. I wanted it to have a...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Portfolio: The Years Flew By
Once again, a design inspired by the time Lisa and I spent in Portugal. The original photo was taken inside the Sé (Lisbon Cathedral)...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 19, 20211 min read
All This Activity and the New Portfolio Pages
I have been beavering away, as you may have noticed, building my online portfolio. Everything is very much under construction, but the...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Sintra Street Cobbles
My wife, Lisa, and I spent a couple of weeks in Portugal in 2005. We visited Sintra, a beautiful town stuffed with castles and palaces,...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 17, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Big Yellow Man
One of my earlier designs, made from a fall foliage photo I took down by the Fraser River. An effect here that I absolutely love is the...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 16, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Larval Stage
Strong, clean lines combined with soft background focus, all in a mildly psychedelic palette. Return to Portfolio Return to Abstract
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Justus Hayes
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Dynamic Steam Punk
This one has an Art Deco, Buck Rogers-y kind of feeling. The copper tones help a lot with this, along with clean lines in two-point...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 14, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Glasgow Back Alley Blues
I love the irony that a design so soft and gauzy started out as a photo of back alley grittiness on the side streets of Glasgow. It looks...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 8, 20212 min read
Portfolio Building
My attempts to reinvent myself as a graphic designer require me building an online portfolio. Although I've been thinking about it, and...
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Justus Hayes
Jun 17, 20214 min read
The Fruits of "Alone in Kyoto"
Alone in Kyoto Photo by Simon Jowett, published as Public Domain in the Creative Commons via Flickr. Here is his description: "Today I...
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Justus Hayes
May 30, 20213 min read
Dead Dog Guitars
Here's an interesting project that I have simmering away in the background. Through the design work I did for Luke and Sarah's Off Grid...
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Justus Hayes
Apr 18, 20211 min read
The Free Stuff
If you are looking for graphics, photos, and imagery that you can use for free in any way possible, including commercially, here are some...
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Justus Hayes
Apr 3, 20211 min read
Piazza della Signoria (aka the Uffizi) - Deconstructed, Inverted, Shifted
The Uffizi, one of the most famous galleries in the world (and which, inexplicably, I did not visit while I was in Florence. Line ups, if...
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Justus Hayes
Apr 2, 20211 min read
Been a While
It's been a while since I posted a design on merch, and I haven't posted like this since switching to Redbubble. So here's one I like:...
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Justus Hayes
Mar 18, 20212 min read
Deconstructing the Garden of Earthly Delights - It's in the Details
I've been fascinated by this Bosch triptych since first seeing it in my early teens. This is the second time I have manipulated The...
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Justus Hayes
Mar 13, 20214 min read
The Plan and Design Developments
Since the start of the Pandemic and my transition to stay-at-home-dad, I have been devoting as much time as possible to graphic design...
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Justus Hayes
Mar 6, 20212 min read
Wikimedia Commons Debacle Resolved!
Yes, the great Wikimedia Debacle of 2021 is over. See this post for the history up to now. Here's the latest, and final I suppose,...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 27, 20211 min read
An Unnamed Remix Series Thanks to Frankfilm247
See the last image for the source photo by frankfilm247 that inspired and fed this remix. A night on the streets of Berlin at a food...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Ted Cruz Dreams of Cancun
Ted Cruz can't help but demonstrate what a privileged, self-entitled, self-absorbed, tone-deaf, insincere, disingenuous, hypocritical and...
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