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Eric's Design Lab

Crystal Lake - Chicago Based Graphic Designer

Eric is a Graphic Designer based in Crystal Lake and the Chicago area. focusing on authenticity and the details in his work, Eric creates striking and unique designs and never settles for “good enough”. Every challenge is a new learning experience, if you never lose, you never learn.

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Designed to highlight the features of Paul Renner’s Futura font, strong geometry, sharp edges, bold legibility. The bold nature of its edges and shape lends itself to the inspiration Renner drew from, the German Bauhaus visual style popular in the early 1900’s.

FUTURA TYPE POSTER

A graphic design poster with a yellow background, featuring black, red, and yellow geometric and modernist typography elements. It contains text about Paul Renner, a German graphic designer, with details about his birth, work, and modernist principles, including a red block with the word 'FUTURA' in large black letters and the years 1927. There is also a section with typographic characters, symbols, numbers, and a paragraph describing the design principles.

The Neighbors in Need event was established to support homeless individuals in McHenry County, providing essentials such as food, water, clothing, showers, employment services, and other resources typically inaccessible to them. The client requested a logo that would represent the event. I aimed to capture both the warmth of their mission and the gravity of the cause, creating a design that conveys the event’s significance and compassionate intent. To respect the serious nature of homelessness, I avoided overly soft or lighthearted elements, ensuring the logo reflected the importance of this issue.

Font - Bebas Neue Bold

Neighbors in need logo

The image features the phrase 'NEIGHBORS IN NEED' in large outline letters, with a red heart shape next to the word 'NEIGHBORS'.

Simplistic without being boring

Arrow Uplifts

Connected line creates unity to show community and togetherness

Straight lines show importance and confidence

Newspaper advertisement

Typography project focusing on large body type layout and visual hierarchy. Intended the tone to be lightly snarky and ironic. Focused on using type as a shape more than as a way to communicate ideas to relate to the purpose of graphic design, use visual elements to communicate ideas.

A black and white newspaper page with an article titled "Online or Not, Newspapers Suck" by Daylee Harold, with a torn corner revealing a brownish background underneath and an illustration of a person sitting at a desk in the bottom right corner.

Black and white ocean wave with a note saying "Goggles must be worn" at the top right corner and large green text overlaying the wave.

be proactive and relaX / / WIP

Text overlay on a beach scene, reading 'Goggles must be worn' and large stylized letters spelling 'beach' in green.