{"id":853,"date":"2021-07-09T02:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T02:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christopherhallman.com\/?page_id=853"},"modified":"2024-05-04T17:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T17:25:22","slug":"graphic-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christopherhallman.com\/index.php\/graphic-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Graphic Design<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tread Magazine<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n
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Woodward Camp<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n
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FBM Bike Company<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n
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Book Design<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n
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Standard Bike Company<\/h4><\/div>\n\n\n
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Props Visual Ltd.<\/h4><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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For roughly ten years I worked as a graphic designer. Although I had no formal training, I had developed a keen interest in design. When I was young and in college a number of my friends were graphic design majors, and I was often checking out their work with curious interest. <\/p>\n\n\n

At 22 I decided to take a break from school in order to pursue bicycling and photography. I eventually began contributing photos and writing for BMX bicycling magazines, and a few years later I had the opportunity to launch a new BMX magazine. That magazine became my formal introduction and training in design.<\/p>\n\n\n

Design felt important to me at the time. There was a BMX magazine out of Ireland whose design and content moved me in a unique way. It seemed that design could convey a deeper sense of emotion, of the experience, than the words alone could describe. I became obsessed.<\/p>\n\n\n

Looking back, I’m not sure if what I did qualifies as design so much as art. I was not following well defined principals or rules. I remember hearing terms such as “The Golden Rule,” reading bits here and there, and it was my interpretation of those ideas that I applied in my work.<\/p>\n\n\n

These are some of the designs that I most enjoy. I put them here as a visual record, as a window into my process. Clicking on a block will bring you to a page of related works.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tread Magazine<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Woodward Camp<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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FBM Bike Company<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Standard Bike Company<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Books<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Props Visual Ltd.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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