Full Portfolio

Every published project by John S. Eldridge, Jr., in order from most recent to earliest - design, branding, packaging, marketing and photography.

JCMG Fantasy Sports - FWA — Fantasy Wrestling Alliance
JCMG Fantasy Sports

FWA — Fantasy Wrestling Alliance

Full creative direction for a fantasy wrestling promotion — an original identity system spanning 12 promotion brands, event art for sixteen PPVs, two annual awards magazines, multi-page commissioner reports, and player onboarding.

Brand Identity2021-2022
Beat the Ridge - Beat the Ridge
Beat the Ridge

Beat the Ridge

A charity T-shirt for Beat the Ridge, a neighborhood fun run raising money for Type 1 Diabetes research — a rainbow word cloud built from the affirmations the girl it was run for chose herself.

Apparel Design2021
Chronos World Entertainment - TTRPG Entertainment Network
Chronos World Entertainment

TTRPG Entertainment Network

A one-person TTRPG broadcast network — ten shows, six days a week on Twitch and YouTube, with full brand identity, show logos, stream overlays, motion graphics, social media systems, and game production built by a single person.

Brand Identity2020-2021
Bud Hut - Budtender QC Review Sheet
Bud Hut

Budtender QC Review Sheet

A product review form for Bud Hut budtenders — a one-page scored evaluation that turned vendor sampling into a consistent, comparable record with a clear buy or pass recommendation.

Print Design2019
Buzz Inn Steakhouse - Buzz Inn Steakhouse — Promotional Campaigns
Buzz Inn Steakhouse

Buzz Inn Steakhouse — Promotional Campaigns

Holiday campaign graphics and tournament promotion for Buzz Inn Steakhouse — a twelve-location Washington restaurant chain — built to carry a shared brand across both chain-wide and single-store messaging.

Advertising & Social Media Design2016-2017
Cafe Wylde - Cafe Wylde
Cafe Wylde

Cafe Wylde

Logo design for Cafe Wylde, a vegan restaurant in Everett, Washington — twelve rounds that started in brush script and distressed western slabs and ended somewhere almost opposite: a disciplined high-contrast serif with the wildness handed to a botanical vine instead of the type.

Logo Design2016
Arisen From Nothing - Arisen From Nothing — Photography, Logo & EP Design
Arisen From Nothing

Arisen From Nothing — Photography, Logo & EP Design

Five years with a Pacific Northwest rock band — bar shows and festival dates, a CD release night, their logotype, their EP sleeve, their show posters, and a mix credit on the record.

Music Photography2011-2016
Stevens Pass - Apparel Design — Stevens PassSelf-Initiated
Stevens Pass

Apparel Design — Stevens Pass

A t-shirt design for Stevens Pass ski resort featuring a snow splatter graphic with illustrated typography, presented as a full apparel mockup.

Apparel Design2015
3G's Coffeeshop - Logo, Menu & Loyalty Program
3G's Coffeeshop

Logo, Menu & Loyalty Program

Seaside identity for a family-run Westport coffeeshop, extended into menus and a loyalty coupon program.

Brand Identity2015
Blank You Very Much - Blank You Very Much — Brand Design ContestsDesign Competition
Blank You Very Much

Blank You Very Much — Brand Design Contests

Contest submissions for Blank You Very Much, a platform connecting major brands with creatives through design competitions. Four brand contests entered across apparel, packaging, furniture, and motorsport — none won, all placed highly.

Brand Design2014-2015
Cavigold Records - Cavigold Records — T-Shirt Design
Cavigold Records

Cavigold Records — T-Shirt Design

Merch and promo work for Cavigold Records, the label arm of Caviar Gold — a chest crest reducing the Redman artwork to a laurel badge, a label roster shirt built around thirteen acts, and an equation graphic pushing traffic to a video.

Apparel Design2015
Caviar Gold - Caviar Gold x Redman — T-Shirt Design
Caviar Gold

Caviar Gold x Redman — T-Shirt Design

Collaboration T-shirt for Caviar Gold and Redman — a traced vector portrait in a crown, where the fix was to stop placing the brand next to the artist and hang it around his neck instead.

Apparel Design2015
John Seymour Eldridge - Tripping Up the Basement Stairs Before Dawn
John Seymour Eldridge

Tripping Up the Basement Stairs Before Dawn

Cover design concept, typography, interior typesetting and production files for a collection of songs and poetry by my father, John Seymour Eldridge, published through Balboa Press after his death.

Book Design2014-2015
Crypticon - Horror Convention Design & Photography
Crypticon

Horror Convention Design & Photography

Lead designer and staff photographer for a Pacific Northwest horror convention — event posters, celebrity guest flyers, vouchers, magazine ads, badge systems, branding, social media, and four years of convention-floor photography.

Event Design2012-2017
City of Everett - City of Everett — Logo Design ContestDesign Competition
City of Everett

City of Everett — Logo Design Contest

An entry in the City of Everett's open logo design contest — a serif civic wordmark tested against mountain and skyline motifs, developed into two full identity systems with departmental lockups. Placed 2nd.

Logo Design2014
Design Crowd - Design Crowd — Logo Design ContestsDesign Competition
Design Crowd

Design Crowd — Logo Design Contests

Contest submissions for Design Crowd, a platform connecting clients with creatives through logo design competitions. Twenty-four entries across industries — none won, all show range in identity design.

Logo Design2013-2014
BizTech RX - Brand Identity & Business Collateral
BizTech RX

Brand Identity & Business Collateral

Full identity rollout for a B2B services firm, from logo through mailers, email banners, and operational forms.

Brand Identity2014
Flights Pub - Flights Pub — Logo, Poster & Web
Flights Pub

Flights Pub — Logo, Poster & Web

Identity and web work for Flights Pub, a live music bar on Evergreen Way in Everett — an amplifier-head logo drawn from the backline, a brand banner, a metal show poster, and a WordPress rebuild delivered in phases.

Brand Identity2012-2014
Dead Kiss - Dead Kiss — Band Logo
Dead Kiss

Dead Kiss — Band Logo

Logo design for Dead Kiss, a Pacific Northwest metal band — four horror-leaning sketch directions were abandoned in favour of a mark that gets its aggression from the letterforms alone, built around a pair of tapered blades that sweep out of the wordmark.

Logo Design2013
Everett Community College - Magazine Design — VibrationsStudent Project
Everett Community College

Magazine Design — Vibrations

A pitch for Everett Community College's student art magazine — my concept and execution, chosen by our team as its submission for our final project.

Editorial Design2013
Poetry Northwest Magazine - Cover Design — Poetry NorthwestStudent Project
Poetry Northwest Magazine

Cover Design — Poetry Northwest

A cover design for Poetry Northwest, a literary journal of national circulation — including the final cover, an alternate concept, and logo exploration.

Editorial Design2013
Advent Antiquity - Nothing is TrivialStudent Project
Advent Antiquity

Nothing is Trivial

A complete book design for Graph 251, built around a personal concept — a fictional band called Advent Antiquity and their album Nothing is Trivial, exploring the ideas of life, love, and who we are as humans. Full design from cover to closing page with photography, artwork, and songwriting.

Editorial Design2013
Cloudlifter Media - Brand Identity — Cloudlifter MediaStudent Project
Cloudlifter Media

Brand Identity — Cloudlifter Media

A full brand identity system for a cloud media company, including a primary mark, sub-brand logos for CloudBooks and CloudFilms, and a creative brief documenting the strategy behind the design.

Brand Identity2013
Everett Community College - Vibrations — Digital Art SeriesStudent Project
Everett Community College

Vibrations — Digital Art Series

A series of large-format digital art pieces created for the Vibrations art exhibitions at Everett Community College — including Troy Arisen, which earned a spot in the Vibrations Magazine student art spotlight issue.

Digital Art2012-2013
Rain City Brew - Beer As Art — Posters, Label & Event PhotographyInternship
Rain City Brew

Beer As Art — Posters, Label & Event Photography

Posters for two nights of the brewery's Beer As Art competition series, the label for a spiced pale amber brewed by one of the owners, and the photography from both events.

Event Design2012-2013
Skullcandy / Starbucks - Product Mockups & MerchandiseStudent Project
Skullcandy / Starbucks

Product Mockups & Merchandise

Product mockup and merchandise design across two brands — Skullcandy headphones on devices and apparel, and a Starbucks gift card with packaging presentation.

Product Mockup2012-2013
Rain City Brew - Label & Package DesignStudent Project
Rain City Brew

Label & Package Design

Bottle label and six-pack carrier for a Seattle brewery, built on Pacific Northwest storm-and-lighthouse imagery. The project led to an internship with the client.

Packaging2012
Seattle Art Museum - David Carson Study — Deconstructed TypographyStudent Project
Seattle Art Museum

David Carson Study — Deconstructed Typography

A complete editorial booklet studying David Carson's groundbreaking typography — deconstructed grids, layered text, and broken hierarchy built as a tribute to his radical approach to print design.

Typography2012
Alpine Tech - Brand Identity — Alpine TechStudent Project
Alpine Tech

Brand Identity — Alpine Tech

A brand identity for a fictional alpine technology company — a mountain form built from negative space, presented with color palette and brand application.

Brand Identity2012
Various - Vector Illustration & TypographyStudent Project
Various

Vector Illustration & Typography

Four vector projects spanning technical illustration, gradient mesh rendering, custom typeface design, and The V Project — a Guy Fawkes mask built entirely from the letter V that earned an artist spotlight in Vibrations Magazine.

Digital Illustration2011-2012
Rainier Mountain Festival - Print Advertising — Rainier Mountain FestivalStudent Project
Rainier Mountain Festival

Print Advertising — Rainier Mountain Festival

A cross-format advertising campaign for a mountain festival — full-page print ad, newspaper ad, and web banners — all built from the same visual system.

Print Design2012