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This was a fun little exercise/experiment for myself. We ended up being so happy with it, that we presented it to Lolly Tree Toys’ owners. But, sadly they weren’t looking to rebrand. Recently, they went out of business, so I feel it’s okay to make these designs public. What I wanted to present was a [...]

Mission Inn has an ideal location, here in Santa Cruz; close to the Beach Boardwalk, UCSC while being exceptionally easy to get to and find when coming from highway 17 or 1. We are also very happy to have such a great location to have another nomBat brand displayed in such a high traffic area. [...]

We decided to give it another go at submitting to the Capitola Begonia Festival! (View last year’s submission) Normally all that is requested for submission is a poster (and in most cases artists just submit a painting/illustration, to which content is added later), but we did things a little differently! Along with the poster, in [...]

Santa Cruz needed another sticker! Santa Cruz Stickers There are some great stickers roaming around town. I am a fan of both the work by Tim Ward and Jim Phillips. Tim Ward is the creator behind the bright and colorful Mermaid, Wave and Otter and others while Jim Phillips is the designer behind the original [...]

Everyone turns to the web when they want local information. From Facebook to Yelp our world is becoming increasingly dominated by the online reviews, articles and opinions of other people in our local community. Word of mouth is still the strongest form of influence, in fact decisions both large and small are still influenced by [...]

There is a reason designing for Santa Cruz companies is particularly satisfying; New to our portfolio this week is a project launch that has been months in the making. You can’t help but feel a certain sense of pride taking a branding project from initial concept all the way through design and launch. Especially when [...]

I created these a while ago to streamline the look of my dock and I figured I’d flesh out the set a bit more and put ‘em online! Click here to download & enjoy! The set is totally free and inside the zip you will find 45 500×500 PNG & 512×512 ICNS, plus a how-to [...]

nomBat is primarily a graphic design company, we really enjoy focussing on the delivery of sharp, professional Graphic Design. Recently we were contacted by Dan Czyzyk at Stunning Peak Media to assist in the redesign of a logistics company’s website. We were more than happy to jump in and help. Now, although we were happy [...]

This is something I’ve been toying around with, in my head, since I was in college. I saw another class’s assignment to redesign one of their favorite DVDs and I knew exactly what I would do: Fight Club! I never got that particular assignment, but the idea stuck with me. I found a little bit [...]

I’ve been spending the past couple weeks, whenever I had some time between projects, to work on a top-to-bottom redesign of nomBat.com. It’s been a really fun process; teaching myself some new techniques in coding, adding projects and pieces to the portfolio, and filling the site with photos I’ve taken of Santa Cruz! We still [...]