JAMES SITZER

Acro Ninja Screen Print

jamessitzer — Sun, 12 May 2013 00:29:21 +0000

I designed and screen printed this shirt as a going away present for a friend of mine, Rachel Plies. She’s one of the most talented acroyogis I know, and is a huge part of our Portland acroyoga community, the Rose City Acro Ninjas. She and her husband moved to Iceland a few weeks ago. I designed the graphic to be reminiscent of the yin-yang and ensō symbols. Before I gave it to her I had all of the Portland acroyogis sign the inside of it. Here are a few pics of here rocking her shirt while teaching and performing in Reykjavik.

Rose City Acro Ninja Shirts

jamessitzer — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:39:54 +0000

I designed shirts for my acroyoga friends to show unity at the Divine Play festival in San Francisco.

Oregon Ducks

admin — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:46:20 +0000

The delay between when I work on something and when I can share it with the internet is sometimes pretty long. I created the web images for the Oregon Ducks’ football jerseys a couple of months ago, but had to keep them under wraps. Now that they’ve released all five colorways I can show you what I did. I made all 5 colorways from a single image capture and added the numbers. The graphics were particularly difficult since I had to show some of them in reflective and glossy inks.

New Old Paintings

jamessitzer — Mon, 28 May 2012 21:51:43 +0000

I finally have photos of a few of my older paintings. You can check them out on my “Art & Illustration” page, or here are the links to the thumbnails:

Instinct

Quinalt

Om (maybe NSFW)

Nike Football League

jamessitzer — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:06 +0000

Every new job or project I work on requires me to wait until the final product gets released out into the world before I can show anyone what I’ve done. In this case I’ve had to wait more than 4 months before I could show off the NFL jersey images I worked on for Nike’s Licensed Apparel group. These things were so under-wraps that we were told not to show them to anyone – not even other people in our building. Most of the jerseys looks very similar to the ones the teams wore last year, with the exception of the Seahawks. The main differences are in the construction and tailoring.

Here’s a sample of how I transformed the original photographs into the images that are now up on the web. I worked on many different jersey styles and teams, but I’m chosing to show the Bengals’ Elite jersey because it was by far the most difficult. I had to completely change the color-blocking, edit the seams, and figure out how the tiger stripes were supposed to go onto the shoulders.

Check out the rest here and here.

LeviaGan

jamessitzer — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:37:05 +0000

After a small hiatus from making any significant work of the “fine art” variety, I’ve promised myself to be much more productive this year. Last month my big accomplishment was finishing this multimedia art piece:

LeviaGan

LeviaGan is the first of three cryptozoological pieces I’m planning to make in the few months. It’s a cross between a giant squid and a mastodon, and is named after the Leviathan and Ganesha. Not only is it a hybrid animal, the artwork itself is a hybrid piece. For years I have painted, drawn, made collages, and taken photos. Whenever I wanted to put some sort of show together I ended up with a bunch of pieces of various media that didn’t seem to fit together stylistically. I’ve decided to remedy that by making pieces that involved all four media. For this piece I glued one of my photographs onto a wood panel, pasted various collage pieces on top, painted over it all with oils, painted the animal, and then drew in added details and highlights with various pens.

Webtrends 404

jamessitzer — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:15:40 +0000

I designed a 404 error page for Webtrends’ new website. Webtrends new branding for the site is very reminiscent of Massimo Vignelli’s design for the NYC subway system. Since the 404 page is generally something you see when you’re lost on the site, I made it look like the map Vignelli designed in 1972.

Graphic Icons

jamessitzer — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:32:50 +0000

Here are some graphic icons I did for Webtrends that never got used for anything. I still like how they turned out.

Q-beRt Code

jamessitzer — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:46:59 +0000

Q-beRt Code

Retro Game-Geek Studio

jamessitzer — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:33:30 +0000

Today was decoration day at the studio. After our big studio remodel everything was clean and white and we needed a little more personality. Today we added a bit of flair: a giant Post-It Pac-Man with some ghosts on the wall, and Space Invaders above the windows.