Dylan Comstock

Dylan is a good friend and a talented artist who needed branding and a website to showcase his photography, video and visual art. We used the Wordpress template Contrast for the layout and tweaked the colors and logo to follow the feel of his work.
The candy logo is a composite of a photo Dylan took [...]

DC Agenda

by Aram Vartian
The total implosion of the Washington Blade, and the resulting creative force from the surviving staff that created the DC Agenda, were some of the most amazing weeks of my life. There were many stories about the birth of the DC Agenda, but none have talked about the design work that went into [...]

dcalcify

We spent a good month investigating colors, shapes and overall concepts to nail down the print, web and video promotional material for dcalcify, and are very pleased with our final result. The credit for the name goes to Michael Key and his scientific mind, while the design, logo and website work all fell on the [...]

Houston Voice

Logo design created for the Houston Voice newspaper, a now defunct LGBT publication from Texas that was wiped out along with several other gay periodicals when Window Media imploded under the crushing load of mismanagement and debt. It remains one of my favorite identity pieces.

Houston Voice logo
Graphic Design: Aram Vartian

Mobile Pathway

Mobile Pathway was a small company involved with Bluetooth signage, mobile devices and the method with which these two technologies can interact. The client required a “simple, energetic design that used blue to effect.”  I feel I was able to accomplish that in my design, as happily did the client.

Graphic Design: Aram Vartian

Design Up

Design Up, LLC is run by my good friend Jason Jasienowski, an insanely talented designer who specializes in kitchen and bath interiors.  He came to me with an idea for a business one night; he had a good name, and wondered if I could design a logo for him.  I decided he needed a little [...]

Enve

ENVE is the brainchild of designer Christopher Wood who developed a line of clothing in his free time while he worked as the marketing coordinator for the Washington Blade. He pitched the idea over lunch as a clothing line based on male desire, and the design followed that theme closely.
Business card
Website design – theme 1
Website [...]