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19
Aug
2010
Mooooooooooo cards
Introducing the cards that need little introduction. During their relatively short presence in the design industry, Moo Cards have gained massive popularity through the creative field. The idea is that instead of having 1 business card duplicated 500-1000 times like usual, Moo Cards can be up to 50 different designs within 1 order. 50!! The coating is a professional matte finish, and the card stock is thicker than the walls of the Russian US Embassy. Not to mention the price is right. Now the hard part is picking my favorite card… hmmmmmmm
25
Jun
2010
IPHONE 4 SERVED: EXTRA RARE
I wouldn’t call myself an expert on the latest gizmos and widgets out there, but I’ve used enough cell phones in my time to realize a good gadget when I see it. In the past I balked at the first text message I ever received, and laughed at people who paid more than $50 for cell phone plans. Now? I can’t leave home without my iPhone in fear of not checking my email every 5 minutes, not being able to navigate to the nearest Starbucks, or hearing a song I love but don’t know the name (Thanks Shazam!). And now after waiting 5hrs in line, next to people who talk WAY too much, on a beautiful sunny day in LA, I have a new shiny faster gizmo to replace my older gizmo. I don’t care how much more awesome your HTCevoPalmPreAndroidBlackberry Version 3.6.71 flavor-of-the-week is than my nose-in-the-air iPhone. It. Just. Works. And it’s delicious.
My old 3G is loved, used, and very well done… say hello to my new iPhone 4!
Enjoy my hand-me-down big sister!
/subtle i-have-an-iPhone4-on-release-day blog post 
22
Jun
2010
Featured: Advanced Photoshop magazine
I had to pinch myself till I bled. Is Adam Smith, Senior Staff Writer for Advanced Photoshop magazine emailing me for a feature in their magazine?!? I instantly google’d his name and email address to verify if this was real, and sure enough it was! Let me try to put this in perspective… This is THE magazine I genuinely gladly pay $15 to take home and read. Oversized pages, spot-uv covers, high quality paper stock.. so nice I’ve never thrown away a single issue. Dare I say the only magazine I buy? (American publishers can learn a thing or two from Imagine Publishing.)
I literally screamed when I saw my picture as the lead-in image for the feature. The feature is simply titled “Photoshop for Photographers”. Myself and 3 other photographers (Jaroslav Stehlik, Jim Lind, and James Quantz Jr)are interviewed for their insight on how Photoshop helps our workflow. Very humbling to be paired up with such great photographers. One line inparticular in the feature caught my eye when I was mentioned in the same sentence as Dave Hill and Jim Fiscus, truly 2 of my main sources of inspiration over my history behind the camera. Maybe now they’ll let me have brunch with them
Dual page lead-in image to the feature, I owe Adam Smith a drink!
Original image from my portfolio.
Pullquote by yours truly, plus the Fast & Furious 3-car rig shot.
Original image from my portfolio
PRO TIP! haha.
If you’ve never picked up a copy of Advanced Photoshop, do yourself a favor and at least flip through it. Chances are you’ll take it home. I have for years, and now I’m featured in the very pages I read!
2
May
2010
Urban Racer Formula D Official Fan Guide
Shortly after finishing up a shoot in the Malibu canyons I get a call from Jackie Ling, Director of UrbanRacer.com. He wanted me to throw together this year’s Official Formula Drift fan guide. Heck ya! I love drifting, and my previous experience working within the magazine industry made me an obvious fit. The deadline was super tight, but after a hurricane of emails, pdfs, and corrections, this spot-uv’d, sleek looking fan guide was approved and ready in less than 5 days.
MUCH credit goes out to Olly Howe for the cover illustration. We have collaborated before. I sent Olly the pics and art direction, and he returned one of the most incredible covers I have seen in my life. Chris Forsberg and Ryan Tuerck have never looked better! That added with a spot-uv for the black areas made this a fan guide that couldn’t be left behind. Literally. At the first Formula D event of 2010 in Long Beach, I made a mental note to count how many fan guides were left behind on the bleachers and ground. Flyers and litter were everywhere as usual, but said fain guide? Zero. None, NADA!!!!
Thanks goes out to Olly Howe, Jacob Leveton, Bob Hernandez, and Jackie Ling.
24
Jan
2010
PlasticPrinters.com Praise
About 2 years ago I made personalized business cards for my job as Art Director of Import Tuner Magazine. The boring company-provided white cards with raised type just wouldn’t cut it in my world. I stumbled upon PlasticPrinters.com and I had to wipe the drool from my keyboard.
Transparent plastic business cards? My creative juices just hit afterburners! I chose the frosted/transparent material for a diffused look. After a couple of design tweaks, and very friendly customer service at PlasticPrinters.com I had a stack of practically indestructible and conversation-inducing business cards, sweet!
The cards have never failed to get a “whoa!?”, “nice!” or a “where did you get these?!?” comment. Someone has even asked if they double as a credit card… I wish! But in a way they definitely make me more money. Compared to the flimsy plain white company cards issued throughout the company, mine are the envy of the office.
What’s even sweeter is one of my co-workers just informed me that my card is displayed on the printer’s front page of their website! Well not front and center, but I feel a little fuzzy seeing my design on the front page of an outstanding business that receives literally 1,000s of submissions a year. Screenshots for proof 
25
Nov
2009
Import Tuner cover build-up video
Hello YouTubes!
Hearing my voice is freakin’ disturbing… Do I really sound like this? I’ll blame it on my room acoustics.
My buddy Jeff Creech, the cover car photographer for this issue, proposed for me to do a step-by-step guide on how the Import Tuner covers are pieced together. The idea had been itching the back of my brain for a while so this felt like the perfect opportunity. I’ve done a lot of covers in my 5 year span of being an Art Director, so why not go an extra step.
Since the Import Tuner covers literally take 4-5 days to complete because of back and forth company approvals and basically lots-o-work, screenshots were taken over the time period and pieced together later instead of doing a time-lapse video. It’s a lot to cover in just 7 minutes.
…and yes I know I accidentally said “if you have any questions, hit me up, i’ll try to ASK any and all that I can” at the end, sigh lol.
At the time of this blog post, this issue is on newsstands.
28
May
2009
NEW LOGO, NEW BIZ CARDS
I was 2 seconds away from buying new business cards a few weeks ago, but I thought my old logo looked a little dated and immature. I wanted something more simple and professional looking. You know, something mature like me! (right). So I came up with this little circle logo, chopped up to look like “CD”. Matte black finish, spot-UV coating on both sides, and a white “signature box” to jot down misc notes. I think they came out pretty cool If you’re lucky enough, maybe you’ll get one of my highly exclusive signed 1 of 500 business cards.
26
Apr
2009
26
Apr
2009
LAUNCH! clintdavis.net Numero 2
After nearly a 5 year hiatus, I redesigned and updated my website. Still a work in progress, but it’s ready for viewing pleasure. Please give feedback!!
26
Apr
2009
I’m a twit
From what I can tell it’s just a wall of text, with boxes to the right that has my friends, AWESOME! But I’m a trend whore so I joined. I was too late for “clintdavis”, so I had to settle for http://twitter.com/clint_davis
