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The Design Work Of Charles Mertens. [email protected]

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So I haven't been able to post here much, but I have updated my portfolio!  Give it a look if you get a chance, and let me know what you think!  Thanks!

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Motion Graphics for Designers final project.  

PLEASE GO TO THE LINK AND VIEW IN FULL SCREEN HD!

Assignment was to explore z-space and lighting within one long cut.  Song is Surph by Rustie.  If you are Rustie, please don't sue me.  Thanks.

Illustrated in Illustrator CS6, animated in After Effects CS6.

December 2012.

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Flier/Poster for a pre election party that some of my best friends will be hosting.  Hand torn construction paper and scanned in.

October 2012.

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A better shot of the hat I helped design for the hardcore band Expire.

August 2012.

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Assignment: Which eight people of all time would you want to sit down and have a dinner party with?  Design anything and everything related in a coherent manner.

September 2012.

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A few weeks back I was in contact with one of the members of the hardcore band Expire about working on a hat for them.  It started around 3am and we went back and forth for about five hours as I mocked up a design that they could then forward to the production company to get a general idea of what they wanted the hats to look like.  The hats wound up selling out in about 8 hours from Expire's online shop.  Pictured above is the final product.

August 2012.

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"Five Minute Fliers"  Random selection of fliers that I completed for shows that I booked at East Islip Lanes this summer.  Being that I was booking these shows, working sound, promoting, and designing fliers each show I was pretty pressed for time (One show every week this summer) when it came to the design aspect.  My main goal was to create a poster that is serviceable and easy to comprehend in 45 minutes or less.

May 2012-August 2012.

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Logo, sticker, and tshirt designs for East Islip pop punk band Shorebreak.

August 2012.

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Business card design/mock up for Tattoo Artist Courtney Raimondi at over at Dakota Ink in East Islip, NY.

August 2012.

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Logo design for rock band Ashes In The Sky, out of East Islip, New York.

August 2012.

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Stencil shirt design for Long Island based trash punk/hardcore band Crowd Walk. Hail Skatin'

July 2012.

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Logo submission for Long Island based Metalcore band Trace Your Steps.

July 2012.

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"Space Jam Rip" design for Long Island based garage-rock band Soda Bomb.  Once these are printed on shirts, stickers, posters, whatever I'll be sure to post 'em.

July 2012.

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"Slime" logo design for Long Island based garage-rock band Soda Bomb.  Once these are printed on shirts, stickers, posters, whatever I'll be sure to post 'em.

June/July 2012.

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Logo for Long Island Christian Metalcore band Rebuke The Masses.

June 2012.

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Promo spot animation that I completed as a part of a class assignment for a fictional multimedia opera based on poems by ee cummings.

May 2012.

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Silkscreened posters edition of nine with two test prints on newsprint.  Did these for the first show I booked at the local bowling alley this summer.  Drew it up in Illustrator, two color screen print done in the VA building at SUNY Purchase.

May 2012.