Kurtis
Kurtis
Kurtis

Durfey
Durfey
Durfey

Strategic Marketer
Graphic Designer
Manager
Golder Ranch Fire

Designing a versatile team brand for unique applications

This patch design was commissioned for the Special Ops team at the Golder Ranch Fire Department in north Tucson, Arizona. The seal designed highlighted the physical abilities of this special team along with the treacherous circumstances they have to deal with. The figure rappelling was hand-drawn and manipulated in Illustrator. The primary seal was designed in four-color process for use on letterhead and envelopes with RGB counterparts for web applications. But we needed distilled versions for a vinyl cut application on the firehouse floor and the sides of the engines, and a single-color solution for department t-shirts.

FINAL DESIGN

DIE-CUT STICKER ON FIRE TRUCK

DISTILLED TO SINGLE-COLOR WHITE FOR SCREEN PRINTING

3D XMas Cards

3D XMas Cards

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My wife and I used to go all-on for Christmas cards, investing indefensible amounts of time and money on an annual creative venture that was as fun for us to produce as it (hopefully) was for our family and friends to receive it. One year, we shipped a stack of printed 3D photos with the old-school red-and-blue 3D glasses for a genuinely old-school immersive look into our holiday season! Dawn...

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Family Projects

Family Projects

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Highlights from dozens of pro bono family projects As the only graphic designer in a family with eight siblings, I was often involved with the design and printing of announcements and invites for special occasions. My twin brother would famously volunteer me for for design work claiming that "it would only take ten minutes." The truth it, I enjoyed these projects immensely as opportunities to...

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Identity + Business Systems

Identity + Business Systems

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Old-school standard deliverables for new logo design clients. Before the world was consumed by smart phones and Facebook, the go-to means of business communication was still old-fashioned direct mail. Letterhead and envelopes were printed en masse and stashed in the office cupboard (often with blank stock for second pages) and often in a dedicated LTR tray in the office printer so invoices,...

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