Stephen Rice

This is a teaser trailer for a documentary I am currently filming about the Do-it-Yourself music of Seattle. As a long time supporter of local music, I have challenged myself with capturing the essence of community and creativity that are the foundations of the artists of Seattle. 

This project tasked me with the development of the inaugural issue of a new magazine. I have always had a passion for underground music, particularly underground metal, and chose to create a publication focusing on the artistic and creative side of this music. Metal has a strong outward brand already and it was a challenge to create a magazine that stayed true to this persona while highlighting the more artistic side of the genre. Instead of focusing on the literal music of metal, i delved into the creative minds of the artists and what the genre offers that other genres of music cannot deliver.

These symbols were designed to give hikers more info on what to expect on different back-country trails . Many trail signs currently only have mileage listed and this offers very little information about the real challenges one might face. A seven mile trail may seem easier than a ten miler trail, but not if the seven mile trail has multiple water crossings and is all up hill! 

With the advent of a more environmentally conscious society, I strove to design a thermostat interface that would help the modern household not only save money or their electric or gas bill, but to also promote a more environmentally friendly home through the reduction of energy usage. Bloom's interface is designed to be intuitive, descriptive, and engaging in ways that the average thermostat falls short.

This project focused on my ability to create a specific tone and feel for a poster. We were also required to develop all of our own typography from scratch and thus use our hand-made letterforms to further push the tone of our design. By using water poured over wax, i was able to create a grungy, bar table that fit the tone of Titus Andronicus's punk rock, alcohol-fueled music. 

This project was a simple freelance project for a movie review television program out of Utah. My client sought a simplified but equally powerful logo that could be more easily used across a wide variety of media.