Danny Flexner | Pixel Design

graphic design

logos

layouts

Rocket Printworks

This logo was created for the screen printing company, Rocket Printworks.

Creative Director
Illustrator & Designer

Rocket Printworks

This is a logo variation that uses fewer colors, for limited color applications.

Rocket Printworks

This is a logo variation that’s just black and white.

Rocket Printworks, Typography only

This is a type-only variation of the logo. The type has tweaks done to it so that it’s unique to Rocket Printworks.

Rocket Printworks Logo Thumbnails

These are the thumbnails for the initial design phase of the logo.

Poppin' For the Spectrum

Logo for an autism non-profit fundraising event.

"Just as popcorn bursts kernel by kernel, we are looking to change the voice of autism one voice at a time. Poppin’ for the Spectrum is a fun and easy way for every family and every community to support our mission.

Brandon’s Voice invites you to host your own Poppin’ for the Spectrum popcorn stand to raise money for autism research, programming, and awareness. Find guidance, templates, and more at brandonsvoice.org."

Creative Director
Illustrator & Designer

Poppin' For the Spectrum

A one color logo created for the charity event.

Poppin' For the Spectrum

A logo variation, featuring a container of popcorn.

Poppin' For the Spectrum

Another logo variation.

Clam Chowder Hub Run

Game Logo for Clam Chowder Hub Run

This is a logo created for a game that’s meant to be cartoony and silly like it came out of the 90’s.

Illustrator & Designer

Everything 80’s Music Festival

Logo for 80’s themed music festival

This is a logo created for a music festival that was supposed to be a love letter to the 1980’s with a strong focus of the musical talents of that time. The plan was to take inspiration from the MTV logo and allow the logo to be dynamic, with lots of color variations and animations when appropriate.

Creative Director
Illustrator & Designer

Everything 80’s Music Festival Thumbnail Sketches

Thumbnail sketches for different 80’s themed logos for the music festival. I explored design sensibilities from the early 80’s to the late 80’s.

Everything 80’s Music Festival Rough Sketches

Tighter sketches for different 80’s themed logos for the music festival.

Everything 80’s Music Festival Alternate Logo

One of the alternate logos that would have been used in merchandise and apparel.

Treasured Candies Logo

Treasured Candies is a candy store that specializes in selling loose candy and candy novelties. I worked with the clients on coming up with a comprehensive brand identity, and them implemented it across their various collateral materials. I work as their go-to designer whenever they have creative work that they need done for their business, as well as consultation on executing advertising initiatives.

Creative Director
Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Treasured Candies Alternate Logo

Treasured Candies Store Sign

Treasured Candies Sugar Free Candy Logo

This logo variation was created for the selection of items within the store that sells sugar free candy. This variation was of particular importance to be distinct, since the target demographic needed to have a clear message that the candy they were buying had no sugar and couldn’t be confused with the normal candies in the store.

Sonic Toad Logo

Rebranding for Sonic Toad

Sonic Toad is a business and blog that is aimed towards indie game developers and entrepreneurial types in general. It is run by the talented and insightful, Rachel Presser.

Rachel had an existing brand that she wanted me to update, so I worked with her carefully to make sure that her ideas translated into the visions that she had for her business.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Sonic Toad Business Card Front

Sonic Toad Sticker

Sonic Toad Sketches

These were some preliminary thumbnail sketches for the logo mark for Sonic Toad. I parsed down the many thumbnails I did to 5 of the strongest concepts, and from there we went on to develop the mark further. Rachel chose to go with the mark that was the least abstract, and that would lend itself to an awesome toad illustration for other applications.

Saturnine Games Logo

Logo Redesign

This is a logo created for Saturnine Games, a game development company. I updated their existing logo to reflect a more sci-fi theme and to have an easier time being used in different applications.

Designer

Saturnine Games Logo Variation

Since they need to put their logo in a number of different digital applications, the logo was designed to be flexible so that can make the best use of space, while following publisher guidelines.

Antipole DX Logo

Game Logo and Redesign for Antipole DX

This is a game logo created for the remake of the Platforming Action game, Antipole DX. The logo for this game was designed to harken back to the action platforming games of the 1990’s. Because it would be used in game, it was also created in pixel art.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

The Longest Tale Logo

Game Logo for unannounced project

This was a game logo created for an action RPG. It was designed to harken back to the feeling of RPGs in the 1990’s. The typography was created from a selection of sketches I drew, and then rendered and refined in pixel art.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

The Longest Tale Type Sketch

A thumbnail sketch of the stylized type I designed for the logo.

Super Beefjerks Logo

This was a game logo created for an action arcade web game. The game can be found here:

http://www.superbeefjerks.com/

This logo was created from a selection of illustrated type sketches that I presented to the client. We then narrowed down the selection to what we felt best represented the tone that we wanted to go for. I then scanned in the sketch, and rendered it in a pixel art style.

Creative Director
Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Super Beefjerks Sketches

These are some sketches where created where I explored the type for the final logo. The typography aspect of this logo was fun, and the scripted type was refined when I started it render it.

Grapple Knight Logo

Game Logo for Grapple Knight

This was a game logo created for an action platformer game. It was designed with the videogame logos of the 1990’s in mind.

The scalable version was important, because they had an intent to use the logo on print assets. Having two versions of logo in this capacity was important in maintaining the retro authenticity of the printed assets.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Grapple Knight Sketches

I drew many thumbnail sketches for this logo that all explored different custom type. The client narrowed it down to two of their favorites and then I drew more detailed roughs of those designs.

Grapple Knight Comprehensives

Once the client picked their favorite of the two, I rendered it in pixel art first, and then rendered a version that used scalable vector graphics.

Grapple Knight Logo, Pixel Version

This is the pixel art version of the logo, as it would appear in game, at the title screen.

Stoked Logo

A logo created for a pizza place that specializes in wood fired food.

Made at Divingdog Creative Solutions, as an intern.

Art Director
Senior Designer
Illustrator/Type Designer

Stoked Sign

The Stoked logo as shown from it’s hanging sign, outside of the restaurant, in downtown Cambridge, MD.

Chesapeake Historic Workboat Foundation

A logo created for a historical workboat restoration foundation.

Made at Divingdog Creative Solutions, as an intern.

Art Director
Senior Designer
Illustrator
Type Designer

Chesapeake Historic Workboat Foundation Sketches

The thumbnail roughs that were presented to the client.

Kids Caring About Kids Logo

Project for Adventist Behavioral

The goal of the project was to create a brand and an initiative that would help kids learn how handle bullying and address it themselves for themselves and for other kids.

Designer
Art Director
Illustrator
Type Designer

Logo Development Process

Part of the process used to make the graphics. I drew out a bunch of different bears and kids text in crayon and picked the best of the bunch for the final logo.

Kids Carding About Kids Logo Variations

Logo Variations for different applications and demographics.

Kids Caring About Kids Shirts

These are the shirt designs that I printed and gave to the organization. All the shirts have the "Be a Friend Not a Bully" on the back, but the fronts were gear towards different age groups.

Paddle Dog Boards Logo

Branding created for Paddle Dog Boards. I was responsible for the sketches of the initial concept, the render, and the final production files. The concept of a dog in an emblem came from the Art Director.

Made at Divingdog Creative Solutions

Senior Designer
Illustrator
Type Designer

Paddle Dog Boards Logo Variations

Logo variations I created for range of uses.

Paddle Dog Boards Logo Comprehensive Sketch

This is the sketch I drew for the dog head illustration used in the main logo. It was based off of a picture I took of the office dog.

Paddle board Spec Sheet

This is an example of the final PDF files that I created and sent to the manufacturers to use to produce the boards. I sent them very clearly organized files for them to use in production on all aspects of the boards.

Paddle Dog Boards Paddle Board

A photo of one of the produced board designs. These designs were sensitive to the production budget for the boards, as more intricate and detailed designs cost more money to produce.

Brandon's Voice bi-fold brochure, outside

Brandon's Voice bi-fold brochure, inside

Postcard about Autism Facts, front

Postcard about Autism Facts, back

Postcard for Poppin' For the Spectrum, front

Postcard for Poppin' For the Spectrum, back

Treasured Candies Gumball Sign

Gumball Sign on the Machine

Treasured Candies Package Labels

These labels were designed for selling vendor-packaged candies at Treasured Candies.

I had to make sure that I followed state and federal guidelines for labels, while making sure that the labels represented the brand accurately.

I also prepared the files for printing and production.

Photo by Rick Messick
Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Taxes for Indie Game Developers Book Cover

This was a book cover created for Rachel Presser’s digital book, The Definitive Guide to Taxes for Indie Game Developers.

I created the pixel art illustration on the cover to reference various video game currencies.

I also created all the necessary files for Amazon’s digital book distribution service.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Antipole DX Promo Post Cards

This is a post card design that I laid out as a collateral material for Antipole DX.

I commissioned my talented younger brother Andy Garner-Flexner to do the character illustrations seen on the front and back, and worked with him as Art Director to create the style we wanted for the game’s promotional assets.

Art Director
Designer

Antipole DX Promo Post Card Reverse

Goony Promo Box Designs

These were designed to be used as promotional boxes that could contain little goodies that the developer, Moragami, could send out. I designed a color version and a black and white version based on the graphics for their existing game, Goony. I illustrated the flame characters based off their pixel art counterparts.

Goony Logo, Goony Character Illustration and design, Moragmi logo are properties of Moragami.

Photo by Moragami
Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Goony Promo Box Design: Color

Goony Promo Box Design: Final Product

Lemmon Hill Watertower Competition Poster

A poster design that was to advertise a water tower mural competition for the city of Salisbury.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Mankind vs Robots

College Project

I created a brand that was aimed to be a low-cost retro toy series. This was accomplished by mimicking off-set CMYK printed half-tones and a vintage illustration style. I created all the visuals and packaging materials used in the presentation.

Mankind vs Robots Squirt Guns

Front of the squirt gun packages.

Mankind vs Robots Squirt Guns

Back of the squirt gun packages that advertised a poster.

Mankind vs Robots Business Cards

Mankind vs Robots Assets

Headbanger Industries

College Project

I created a brand that was aimed to be marketed to alternative-lifestyle teenagers. The idea is that these materials would look at home on a rack at a store like a Hot Topic.

I created the packaging materials myself and all of the visuals (down to my own ink-blotch assets).

Headbanger Industries Gift Card

Headbanger Industries Stud Box

Headbanger Industries Wrist Bands

Headbanger Industries

Concept sketches showing the brainstorming of ideas from the logo mark to the various types of packaging.

Anamanaguchi Gig Poster

College Project

A personal Gig Poster I created for one of my favorite bands, Anamanaguchi.

Anamanaguchi Gig Poster Color Rough

Anamanaguchi Gig Poster thumbnail

illustration

Rocket Printworks, Dog Shirt Design

This illustration was created for a t-shirt design, featuring the company dog, Maryland flag and the state flower, the Black-eyed Susan.

Illustrator

Rocket Printworks, Dog Shirt Design, rough

The rough sketch of the illustration.

Astro Fishing

These assets were created for the mobile game, Astro Fishing. The game is about fishing on a distant planet, catching uniquely generated fish.

Background Designer
Character Designer
UI Design

Bosco

Character and background design and illustration

I created these vector assets to be used in Clam Chowder Hub Run.

Art Director
Illustrator
Character Designer

Treasured Candies Window Graphics

Candy Illustrations created for Treasured Candies’ store windows.

I worked closely with the printing and production company to ensure that the files I gave them were prepared properly and would be able to be applied to the windows without an issue.

Photo by Rick Messick
Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Window Graphics Thumbnails

Thumbnail sketches of various different types of candy that I would use for the window graphics. All the candy options were based off of what could actually be bought at the store.

Window Graphics Comprehensives

Tighter comprehensive sketches of the candies.

Window Graphics Gummy Bears

The finished vectored gummy bears.

Window Graphics Storefront Mock Up

The mock up of the window graphics applied to the store front that I sent to the printing company. The raw files were made to the exact scale they needed to be, with detailed measurement instructions included with the files.

Wizard of Oz Assets, Dorthy

Character Designs and Animations to be used in the Sketch Nation Education App

I created assets and character designs for the Sketch Nation application that were based off the The Wizard of Oz novel descriptions and depictions. Since the app is used in education settings, I was told to create a style that would feel accessible to children, that would encourage them to also be creative.

These assets were designed to be scaleable vectors.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer
Animator

>Wizard of Oz Assets, Dorthy Character Sketch

One of the handful of character design sketches that were considered for Dorthy.

Wizard of Oz Assets, Scarecrow

Wizard of Oz Assets, Tinman

Wizard of Oz Assets, Lion

Match 3 Assets

Character Designs and Animations to be used in the Sketch Nation Education App

These were simple assets that were created to show off the capabilities of making a match 3 game in Sketch Nation and to also promote healthy habits in Children.

These assets were designed to be scaleable vectors.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Sonic Toad Toad Illustration

This is the process of creating the toad illustration used in the Sonic Toad Branding. This is the final Vector image of the toad.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Sonic Toad Rough

This is a rough sketch of the toad illustration. The illustration is actually based off of Rachel Presser’s own Toad, Yael!

Sonic Toad Ink

This was the first ink pass, at a smaller scale, of the toad. After this, I scanned in the image and printed it out larger and added even more detail.

Sonic Toad Tessellation Pattern

This is a tessellation pattern that I created for Sonic Toad, for various applications.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Grapple Knight Character Portraits

These are pixel art illustrations that would have been used in the game for when characters were talking. These designs were based off the sprite designs that I created, and then I expanded on the designs when I created the portraits.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Thrustr Assets

These are assets created for the game, Thrustr. I worked together with the creative director to come up with the cartoony art sytle that the game would be presented in.

Art Director
Illustrator & Designer

Thrustr Sketches

Sketches of the planets and some objects used in the game before I rendered them.

Arkas Comic Game Assets

Assets created for a game based off the Greek Comic, by the illustrator Arkas. The style was based off of the illustrator’s style.

Illustrator & Designer

Arkas Game Mock Up

A mock up sketch that was made to show the layout and concept of the game.

Bloody Feet Study

Personal Project

Was done for a contest over at Pixel Joint, that had the theme of “feet.” It was voted 1st place by the community.

Monster Boy

Personal Project

Created this design as part of an assortment of promo t-shirts that I made and gave out (sometimes sold) at various places and events. This is one of the few designs that I've made pixel art from one of my sketches.

Monster Boy Mock Up

A mock up of the final design on a shirt model.

Monster Boy Rough

A colored rough of the shirt design.

Boooom

Personal Project

Created this design as part of an assortment of promo t-shirts that I made and gave out (sometimes sold) at various places and events.

Boooom Printed Shirt

A photo I took of my younger brother wearing one of the screen printed shirts.

Boooom Process

A rough sketch of the initial idea of the shirt design.

Nom Nom

Personal Project

Created this design as part of an assortment of promo t-shirts that I made and gave out (sometimes sold) at various places and events.

Nom Nom Printed Shirt

A photo I took of my younger brother wearing one of the screen printed shirts.

Nom Nom Process

A look at the rough and comprehensive of the illustration used in the shirt’s design.

Bosco

Personal Project

Was done for a contest over at Pixel Joint, that had the theme of using a limited pallet to create a portrait. It was voted 2nd place by the community.

web design

Natives Only Plant Nursery

A website design made for a client that only supplies native plants for the Mid-Atlantic area. I created them a responsive one page website that met all their needs.

Programmer and Web Designer

Treasured Candies

A website design made for Treasured Candies. They needed a simple web presence, and mainly used their Facebook page to engage with customers. So I embedded their Facebook feed, and Facebook Reviews on their home page. I also set up Google Business for them, as well as their SEO and took the photos that were used on the website.

Art Director
Programmer and Web Designer

Sonic Toad

A website design made for Sonic Toad. The focus of this site design is the blog.

Programmer and Web Designer

Ex Friends

A website design made for the Philly Punk band, Ex Friends! This also acted as a blog for the lead singer of the band, and as a way that they could promote their merch. It was created on a Tumblr because that’s what they were familiar updating with.

Programmer and Web Designer

HEDZZ

A website design made for a line of bouncy, sculpted, vinyl balls. The design of the site was influenced by the branding of the product and illustration style of the balls.

Programmer and Web Designer

Lemmon Hill Competition

A website design made for the Lemmon Hill Water Tower Design Competition. Visitors could learn more about the competition details and submit their proposals via the website.

Programmer and Web Designer

Creep Records

A website design made for a record store up Philadelphia. I worked together with my older brother JP Flexner on coming up with the aesthetic. All of the assets were created by us and scanned in (tape, ripped paper, zipper).

Programmer and Web Designer