VizCab - The Design Portfolio of Michael Rowley

200 Days

Email postcard reminder for our high school reunion. I kind of like that it looks like a Jose Cuervo label.

Filed under  //   Reunion   Typography  

I love Aztecs poster

Barstow gets a bad rap as a pit-stop on the way to Vegas. Many Barstow High alumni have led accomplished lives as authors, entrepreneurs, news casters, pro football players, a Miss California scholarship winner, and proud parents, and community leaders. For my high school reunion, I decided to give the school the professional brand it deserves.

Filed under  //   Branding   Design   Invitation   Reunion   Typography  

Kanji Pictographix: Summer

Filed under  //   Illustration   Kanji   Typography   Visual Mnemonics  

Disney Title Art

Illustration and typography for a Disney movie that was a take on Mark Twain's story, 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'.

Filed under  //   Entertainment   Typography  

Star Wars Packaging Exploration

For this project for Lucas Arts, I took an existing font and manipulated the forms and added a rough-hewn bevel. The background was made from soil, fire, and a ruler from stock images.

Filed under  //   Design   Entertainment   Typography  

Barstow High 30-Year Reunion Poster

Poster idea to promote my high school's reunion.

Filed under  //   Illustration   Reunion   Typography  

Father

I love visual mnemonics. I've written books on learning Japanese kanji with the help of illustrations that match the shape of kanji and convey their meaning. This is my favorite of the 1500 visuals I've created so far. The original images that this kanji is based on comes from a pictograph of a hand holding a stick. It represents the authority, discipline, and punishment of fathers. I like my visual way better. Here is kanji mnemonic number 189 of 1945.

Filed under  //   kanji   Typography   Visual Mnemonics  

Peace eCard

Filed under  //   eCards   Typography  

Shoreline Egrets, Mountain View, California

Filed under  //   Identity   Shoreline   Typography  

Open Stack Hack

Filed under  //   Logos   Typography  

The Game - Movie Premiere Invitation

     

The Game was PolyGram's first feature film with their name on it and they wanted to make a splash. This movie premiere invitation is made of five puzzle cards and an invite wrapped in a clover-shaped envelope that folds open to reveal a maze of visuals from the movie. After the invites went out, James Cameron called the studio to ask who designed the piece.

Filed under  //   Design   Entertainment   Invitation   Print   Typography   Writing  

Pi Day

Filed under  //   eCards   Typography  

Year of the Rat

Filed under  //   eCards   Typography  

Stop

Talk about making the complex simple. With Kanji PictoCards you can learn 1,945 kanji in one day. Okay, maybe two days.

Filed under  //   kanji   Typography  

Kanji PictoCards

Over 2000 visual mnemonics for learning the complete Joyu set of Japanese written characters.

Filed under  //   Authored Works   Identity   kanji   Typography   Visual Mnemonics