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Five Day Forecast

DVD packaging, booklet design and motion graphics for The Five-Day Forecast,a skateboarding film by Brendan Campbell. The film's theme focuses on thechallenges that New England weather creates for skateboarders and theirdetermination to continue to do what they love.

Ugly Riders

Logo and t-shirt design created for a performance motorcyle company called "Ugly Riders"

Intervention

Poster, agenda booklet and name badge design for the design conference'Intervention'. The conference's theme of social responsibility in graphicdesign was represented through the harsh contrasts of a designer's xactoblade and a pretty, yet useless object: a pink balloon.

Kent State University Student Recreation & Fun Guide

Front cover design for a magazine targeting college students

Ecological Sustainability

Poster designs for a series of lectures/debates regarding EcologicalSustainability in the United States at Harvard University. Printed ondiscarded newspapers, the issue of each debate directly correlates to thenewspaper articles it is printed on.

Mass Equality

MassEquality wanted to promote their organization in a diverse way with a brochure that would touch their audience.

(bottom) Paper dolls inserted into the back of the main brochure. It discusses key points and acts as an interactive piece.

Silkscreen Prints

Various silkscreen t-shirts, posters and wheat-pastes.

Matter Media

The name, logo and corporate identity system were developed for Matter Media, LLC., a small print and web design firm. There was a dual concept behind the name Matter. The first concept related to creating relevant, dynamic designs that 'matter' for clients. Secondly, the name Matter spoke to taking ideas and executing them into tangible communications­­speaking to Matter in terms
of an element that exists.

National Park Service Guide

Booklet for the National Park Service in Boston, MA. The booklet is ahomage to the famous landscape architect Fredrick Law Olmsted who designedBoston's Emerald Necklace. To convey Olmsted's belief that a park should besomewhere an individual can escape the city to reflect and relax, the bookis designed as a field journal. Filled with hand-drawn sketches andmaterials, the booklet is a personal yet informative piece.

CeliaMcDonough.com

(top) Homepage for watercolor artist; celiamcdonough.com

(bottom left) Gallery homepage. Artwork displayed as thumbnails and as a larger view on the easel.

(bottom right) Art shown as a closeup with information and pricing.

Self Made Entertainment

Logo design for Boston-based, rap and hip-hop record label Self Made Entertainment.

Process Poster

Poster demonstrating the four-step process of a combustion engine.

Parallax

This logo and identity system were created for Parallax a Life Sciences Consulting Company. Parallax looks at their clients in a complete 360 degree manner. The circular motion and arrow of the logo conceptually represents this. The logo also speaks to helping companies head in the right direction.

Hire Purpose Career Services

Logo and stationary package design for career services company, Hire Purpose.

Gourmet Decisions

(left) Homepage for gourmet restaurant and catering company - gourmetdecisions.com
(right) location and contact page.

BearHug is a group of talented and creative individuals who are designing because, we love it. Based out of Boston and Providence, BearHug design is influenced by art, music, sports, skateboarding, video games and everything else that we love to do. BearHug was created in 2006 due to the fact, we needed a creative outlet for our ideas and design. We work in this industry because, we choose to. It's what we love to do.

BearHug specializes in creative, design solutions. We produce: print, web, animation and video graphics. We like to work with creative, open-minded clients who are willing to share our vision and allow us to create successful projects for them.

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