Just Creative Design

Christmas & My 21st Birthday Come At Once

Back in October I announced me winning the ‘Best of Continent’ and ‘Best of Nation’ Wolda Logo Design Award for my Just Creative Design logo. Well today I received a little something in the mail from Santa Wolda, it was my trophies and award certificates!

Just so you know… “Wolda is the innovative graphic design awards scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world and the only award scheme endorsed by ICOGRADA and more than 100 other international design associations and schools”. Read more about Wolda and the judging process here.

This came at a perfect time, just two days before Christmas and four days before my 21st birthday… it was a great surprise!

On that note, I will also take this time to wish every one a jolly good Christmas and Happy New Year! And a festive season for those who do not celebrate Christmas!

Here are a few happy snaps of me and the trophies…

TOOT TOOT: JCD Logo Wins ‘Best of Continent’ AND ‘Best of Australia’

It was only a few weeks ago when I was tooting my own horn but here I am again… I couldn’t keep it a secret.

Just Creative Design Logo Wins ‘Best of Continent’ AND ‘Best of Nation’ Wolda Logo Design Award

Wolda is the innovative graphic design awards scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world and the only award scheme endorsed by ICOGRADA and more than 100 other international design associations and schools.

Thanks to its originality and design excellence, the “Just Creative Design” logotype (as seen at the top of this blog) has been selected for the “Best of Continent ‘08” and “Best of Nation ‘08″ talent award and will be included in the Wolda ‘08 printed annual, plus an honourable mention on the Wolda website.

To select the winners, an innovative international three-tier jury consisting of 10 top design professionals, 10 major international Clients and finally of 10 members of the public, reviewed all the logos submitted following a unique process which reflects the actual process that turns any logo into a successful logo: the designers decide what to present to the clients, the clients decide what to present to the public, but in the end it is always the public that decides if a brand is successful.

The 30 judges have been selected respectively from ICOGRADA (International Council of Graphic Design Associations), AQUENT and CONSUMERS INTERNATIONAL.

All winning entries for Wolda ’08 are displayed online at www.wolda.org and will be published towards the end of December in the 2008 annual, a substantial hard bound volume of exceptional quality printed on SAPPI acclaimed papers by FONTEGRAFICA.

For those of you interested I can get the book for 50% off but it probably wouldn’t be worth it if you live outside of Australia. Email me if you are interested.

This is the second award won for this logo, the first being the Logo Design Love award. This logo also appears in the book ‘Logo 2′ (ISBN: 978-3-939998-17-4) which will be available in 2009.

Member of NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals)

On another note, I have also just been awarded a year membership at NAPP, which is a trade association serving as a resource for Adobe Photoshop education, training, and news. They have some great tutorials, magazines and lots more, I recommend you to check them out - it really is worth it!

Featured Writer in Layers Magazine

I will also be appearing as a featured writer in the January / February edition of Layers Magazine so watch out for that one. I will post about it once everything has been printed.

Well there we have it, my horn has been tooted yet again!

All about Jacob Cass (me) - Things you didn’t know

After my post ‘30 Fonts that all designers must know‘ making the front page of Digg I received many new subscribers so I thought it would be a good time to let people know a bit more about me (Jacob Cass) - things that aren’t on my about page.

Just to recap for those of you who don’t know, I am a 20 year old from Sydney, Australia who loves everything to do with design! I am currently studying Visual Communication (majoring in graphic design) at Newcastle University here in Australia and to pay the bills I freelance as a logo and graphic designer.

Now I will tell you some things that you wouldn’t have found on my about page or my personal photography post.

Passions & Friends

Obviously design is my passion however I do have a life outside of this life I love travelling, going to the beach, music, rugby, clubbing and generally just hanging around with friends. Mid year I will be travelling to 14 countries over Western Europe which I can’t wait for!

I would have to say spending time with friends is something that I pay particular attention to. I have four main different groups of friends that I hang around with, that being school friends, university friends, sport friends and the friends that don’t fit into those groups so varying my life between these four groups of friends does keep me busy.

You can befriend me on Facebook and join the Just Creative Design group.

Below you can see my best mates (I am in the middle with the white and purple shirt on).

Music

My iTunes library consists of over 50gb of music so I can say I do have a varied taste in music. But out of that 50gb of music about 20gb is dance music. I mainly listen to electro house dance music. If you want to hear a sample and watch an awesome video clip check out this video.

Some of my favourite artists are Jack Johnson, Muscles, The Presets and most artists that get onto Ministry of Sound compilations. Lets put it this way… I like most music.

Life

I actually live in two places in my life due to my parents being separated (when I was 10 but they are still both great friends). I live in Newcastle as well as in Sydney varying my life between these two place (about 2 hours drive apart).

My life at the moment consists of balancing time between Newcastle and Sydney, keeping in touch with friends, university and working as a designer.

Work

I wouldn’t really call it work as I love it so much but to pay the bills I freelance as a graphic designer as you would have picked up. If you haven’t already, you could check out my portfolio.

Below you can see where I work most of the time. Sorry about the poor quality of photos, they were just quick snapshots taken a short while back.

Parents

Something that not many people would have would be a father who is a magician. My fathers stage name is Phil “Trust Me” Cass and he is a comedy magician - you can check out a video of his work here. I actually did his graphics for his promo material which you can see to the right. Click to view it at a larger size.

My mother is an wedding and event planner who has her own business by the name of Lenore K. If you ever need an event planned anywhere you know the lady! She operates in Newcastle and Sydney.

I am very proud of my parents.

Random Facts

Birthday: 27th December 1987 - What to get a designer for their birthday?
Piercings: Used to have an eyebrow ring but none now.
Tattoos: None, not a fan.
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Favourite Colours: Black and White
I love icecream - everything about it.
I love anything sweet.
Favourite food: roast lamb.
I don’t watch TV very often (maybe 2 hours a week).
I watch rugby league and support the Broncos.
I have won 4 Australia wide design competitions promoting the awareness of the dangers of alcohol.

Is there anything else you want to know? Please ask!

Merry Christmas To All Readers

Just a quick Merry Christmas to all my readers. I hope Santa gives you what you want for Christmas and that you don’t get food poisoning! Gotta watch out for that. You can also check out my Christmas wish list.

This message has also been pre-programmed using WordPress’s timestamp feature - as at this time I will probably be sunbaking on the beach in the South Pacific.

All the best!

Print Design

I am a graphic designer from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and below are some examples of various different designs from my portfolio.

They include posters, business cards, flyers, letterhead, email signatures, stickers, drink coasters, tattoos and more.

For a larger view and more information on each graphic piece please click on the thumbnails below.

If you would like to hire me or get a free quote please contact me or browse more of my portfolio.

 

Logo Design

I am a logo designer based in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and below are some examples of logo designs from my portfolio.

For a larger view and more information on each logo please click on the thumbnails below.

If you would like to hire me or get a free quote please contact me or browse more of my portfolio.

 

Web Design

I am a graphic & web designer based in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and below are some examples of web designs from my portfolio.

For a larger view and more information on each website please click on the thumbnails below.

If you would like to hire me or get a free quote please contact me or browse more of my portfolio.