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DESIGN: 2011 In Music

2011/12/312020/03/21 Jared Mobarak

Tracklisting:Disc 11. “Hanna’s Theme” — The Chemical Brothers 2:09 | from Hanna: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack; Back Lot2. “Polish Girl” — Neon Indian 4:24 | from Era Extraña; Static Tongues/Mom + Pop3. “Desire” — Anna Calvi 3:52 | from Anna Calvi; Domino Records4. “Someday” — Middle Brother 3:40 | from Middle Brother; Partisan Records5. “Solitude and Vine” — John Ralston 3:47 | from Shadows of the Summertime; Self Released6. “All the Sand in All the Sea” — DeVotchKa 4:50 | from 100 Lovers; ANTI- Records7. “Coeur d’Alene” — The Head…

DESIGN: Habibi Sheesha Lounge

2011/12/172012/07/28 Jared Mobarak

A new hookah lounge has opened in Niagara Falls, NY called Habibi Sheesha Lounge. Serving over 70 different flavors of sheesha, the lounge also provides a menu with a variety of beverages—soda, smoothies, shakes, etc—and a mix of American and Middle Eastern snacks/desserts. Asked to create a logo, menu, and business card, the first step was figuring out what to do for iconography. Playing around with different Arabic motifs, the Egyptian flag colors, and the idea of a hookah, my first designs went in the direction of elegant patterns and…

DESIGN: Miles to Go Endurance

2011/11/012017/04/08 Jared Mobarak

Ryan Knapp—one of the men behind Buffalo’s soccer club FC Buffalo—got a hold of me from Kansas City in search of a logo for his new endeavor Miles to Go Endurance Co. The final design is something I really think depicts the concept of endurance and the never-stop attitude so many athletes cultivate. I was told that the enterprise was to target the endurance lifestyle—running, biking, swimming—and took its name from a Robert Frost poem. In Ryan’s words: Inspired by a stanza in the Robert Frost poem “Stopping by Woods…

DESIGN: P2 Collaborative Conference Program 2011

2011/10/052012/08/07 Jared Mobarak

2011 P2 Collaborative Conference Program 2011, published by Buffalo Spree Publishing, Inc. Based off of the P2 Collaborative’s design branding and last year’s program, I designed their third annual conference book with minor tweaks, including schedules, speakers, maps, and other weekend activities. The big change this year was a new look cover with supplied image to coincide with new identity.

DESIGN: Curtain Up! Program 2011

2011/09/162012/08/04 Jared Mobarak

2011 Curtain Up! Program 2011, published by Buffalo Spree Publishing, Inc. With a supplied cover that mimicked last year’s, I updated the layout of the book based on the motifs, color, and fonts displayed. Opening information on event is displayed in spreads while the participating theatre information is designed tighter at four to a page.

DESIGN: The Western New York Performing Arts Guide 2011

2011/08/262012/08/04 Jared Mobarak

2011 The Western New York Performing Arts Guide 2011, published by Buffalo Spree Publishing, Inc. Front Cover: Thinking back to the children’s puzzles where a cube would have four different heads, torsos, and legs that you could twist to mix and match, I decided to base this year’s cover design on the same concept. Making the head portion Theater, the torso Music, and the legs Dance, I scoured our stock photography database to find the perfect fit. Inside Layout: Building off of 2010’s design, I kept the three column format,…

ARTWORK: Buffalo, Consumerized – The 2011 Lord Bedlington Cup Triptych

2011/06/292013/07/09 Jared Mobarak

Expanding upon my Buffalo, Consumerized series, I decided to commemorate the first Lord Bedlington Cup. But while looking for a shot that embodied the event, the idea to make the piece a triptych came up. By making a vertical piece, the top being the Bedlington Terriers FC, the bottom the FC Buffalo Blitzers, and the middle a combination of the two, all aspects of the evening could be represented. It would have been silly to place the trophy graphic on a photo of the winner lifting the same entity, so…

PHOTOGRAPHY: The 2011 Lord Bedlington Cup – FC Buffalo/Bedlington Terriers FC

2011/06/292012/10/23 Jared Mobarak

To commemorate Bob Rich’s generosity towards soccer at home and abroad, his Lord Bedlington Cup was formed. Pitting the FC Buffalo Blitzers against the UK’s own Bedlington Terriers FC, the international friendly became a means to promote the sport and the city of Buffalo in one fell swoop. With a stunning turnout of 3,821 fans from both sides of the Atlantic, the first Lord Bedlington Cup was a resounding success. The least of which was the fact that the trophy will stay in America as Buffalo blitzed Bedlington by the…

DESIGN: Buffalo Spree magazine – July/August 2011 cover entry

2011/06/232012/08/04 Jared Mobarak

2011 Buffalo Spree magazine – July/August 2011 published by Buffalo Spree Publishing, Inc. Cover contest entry: For the 2011 Buffalo Spree magazine, July/August Best of WNY issue, our company’s art department was put to the task to create a striking cover. With my entry, I wanted to make people stop and pick the magazine up from the newsstands to see what is going on. It’s very minimal—the concept of ‘Best of’ stripped down to its essence, an envelope containing the winner. It would have, at the very least, definitely stood…

ARTWORK: India, Consumerized [Taj Mahal]

2011/06/122012/08/04 Jared Mobarak

After a vacation in India—and 1,100 photos—I decided to continue my Buffalo, Consumerized series with an off-shoot aptly named India, Consumerized. The following is a horizontal and vertical offering of the famous Taj Mahal in Agra. All aspects of the design motifs come from the architecture of the tomb and the surrounding structures. The logo is derived from the gorgeous in-laid precious stone work glued on the marble, re-appropriated and combined to form an icon in the shape of the actual building. The starburst motif is taken from the interior…

DESIGN: Theodore’s Original Hot Dogs [spec]

2011/06/122012/08/04 Jared Mobarak

When Theodore’s Original Hot Dogs was in its infancy, I was asked to develop some ideas on a logo design. Seven iterations later, the final circular crest below, in two colors, was made as a start to what could have been a full-scale branding of the company. In the end, the company decided to go in a different direction, but the designs exist nonetheless as follows. Three early examples from the initial seven designs. The first playing off a circular squirt of condiments; the second an abstract flame from yellow…