My name is Clayton McIlrath and I am an entrepreneur currently living in CO. I personally enjoy the process of learning, exploring, and doing all things creative as well as sharing my experiences with others. Being an entrepreneur and business owner, I hope that my experiences may help someone else start their own venture and find success and freedom as I have! Feel free to contact me anytime for questions or opportunities.
For some reason, clients always think that logos should be cheap. Dirt cheap in fact. I’ve had people ask me if I could do a logo for $50, which I decline, no logo that I can design in an hour is worth associating my name with, so why bother. Rather than posting a long article about logo design and branding, I figured it would be best to share some links of people that have already hit the nail on the head:
Many people want to know how to design a logo from start to finish. Let me address first, that logo design is not something that should be taken lightly and doesn’t come cheap. Not everyone can be as fortunate as Nike and get an effective logo for only $35. In fact, designing a highly effective [...]
I’m working on the re-design of this site right now because i want a little of my own special touch to it. Don’t get me wrong, i love the layout and the color scheme, but i want to go for something a little more.. me. I’ve been playing around with some ideas for backgrounds but [...]
Another wallpaper I made for Chosen. It was really simple to create this washed out look in photoshop, I’ll briefly outline the process. Create a Document at the dimensions you want (1024 x 768 is usually minimum standard. If you’re on a laptop 1280 x 800 is a common resolution) Create a subtle gradient background [...]
