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GRAPHIC DESIGN SERVICES

brand design & development • print and packaging design • website design & development • email campaigns • social media content

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Jerome Baker Designs
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adobe creative suite

In addition to creating this website from scratch using WordPress, my real strengths are in my decades of experience with the Adobe Creative Suite, specifically with the following apps:

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Look who stopped by!
Snoop Dogg in da house.

case study: Jamaica joel's

Projects include logo and interior mural. Jamaica Joel's has been voted the best cannabis dispensary in Eugene, Oregon by the Eugene Weekly for the past four years (2023, 2022, 2021, and 2020). I am both honored and humbled that Snoop and Tommy Chong (pictured with me and some friends below) posed in front of my work.

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CASE STUDY: THE INTERIOR MURAL

In addition to Snoop posing in front of my logo, I also was honored to have Tommy Chong pose with me and some friends in front of my completed 20 x 10 foot mural inside the Jamaica Joel's dispensary.
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custom built wordpress websites

Working as a sub-contractor for ThndrStrm I design and build you a completely custom WordPress site. While I'm the sole designer of these sites, I am lucky to work with a talented team which includes a back-end guy who's an SEO wizard as well as the founder of the company who is a networking guru.

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CAMPAIGN WEBSITE FOR 2024 OREGON SECRETARY OF STATE

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A BOUTIQUE SAN FRANCISCO LAW FIRM

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MINORITY CANNABIS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

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CANNABIS DISPENSARY IN MASSACHUSETTS

The ICBC
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Caldera Brewing
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528 Hz Gardens
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logo design + trifold brochure

Evergreen Law Group is a firm whose lead attorney is licensed to practice in Washington DC, New York, Oregon and Washington State.

SOFTWARE USED: ADOBE INDESIGN, ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP.

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Phytonyx
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Big Island Brewhaus
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The challenge in creating this logo was the client wanted it to have depth and yet still be a native vector Adobe Illustrator file. I love how this turned out, pushing the limits of what a vector file can be. I've included the outline view as well, to show how Adobe Illustrator works (it uses the PostScript vector language as opposed to pixels like Photoshop).

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2024 Rock Creek Mountain Bike Guide

Shown below are sample spreads from a 32-page booklet I created in Adobe InDesign.  I wanted the feel of the finished piece to be that of an old treasure map. The client, Josh Bender, is a legend in the extreme downhill mountain biking community. Cover photo montage using three separate photos by Simeon Schatz.

PRINT ADS FOR OREGON CBD COMPANY

Angel Industries, located in Southern Oregon, wanted two full page print ads in Dope Magazine to showcase their CBD drops, as well as a box design for the drops.

SOFTWARE USED: ADOBE INDESIGN, ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP.

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CASE STUDY: the cliffs of manhattan

These days everyone is talking about Ai, but what if you have a specific final image you want, using specific assets? As good as Ai is getting, it still can't do what a seasoned Photoshop designer can do, and that's deliver you exactly what you're looking for, using the exact image sources you want. For instance, what if you wanted a photo montage of your two kids on a cliff overlooking Manhattan, expertly assembled so it looked real, as shown here?

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Expert Photoshop Montage

The reason this final image looks so convincingly real is that the shadows all fall in the same direction. When choosing source images for a composite such as this one, it's absolutely essential the shadows match in foreground and background. The technique I used here was to first remove the background of the original photo with the kids, using the Bezier pen tool in Adobe Photoshop to precisely isolate the kids and the rocks, then save that path as a selection and make it its own layer, and from there apply a layer mask to it, so I could fine-tune the edges of the rocks and the kids—making them smooth in some places like the hair and sharp in others like the rocks—which then allowed them to be placed seamlessly on any background, which in this case was the Manhattan skyline as seen from the Empire State Building. After combining the two photos, the final step was to convert the image to black and white to achieve maximum tonal continuity between foreground and background.

Here the client wanted to use a single Pantone spot color for their box packaging, which by itself might look overly simplified, but when placed on a shelf adjacent to the colorful packaging of other brands, this one-color design suddenly stands out from the crowd.
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custom-built HERO SLIDERS

I created this hero slider for the homepage of Berkshire Roots using the Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress.

LET'S MAKE YOU LEGENDARY

Wow you've gotten this far in my website? Good job! Remember, the examples shown here are but a tiny fraction of my total body of work. If interested in seeing more don't hesitate to use the circular menu centered at the top of this page and you'll find a Clients link (but even that isn't all of my work, there's just not enough room for it all). However, if you're looking to become a legendary brand in a crowded field and have seen enough then you need look no further, as the brands I develop have all risen to the top of their competition.

what's up with that?

Just 8% of all cannabis CEOs are women, and that number is even smaller for women of color.
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cannabis video content creator

Rather than have to guess whether or not a social media app has once again banned my cannabis videos, I share a few of them with you here. All footage taken by yours truly, as well as all post and final production.

cannabis video content creator

Rather than have to guess whether or not a social media app has once again banned my cannabis videos, I share a few of them with you here. All footage taken by yours truly, as well as all post and final production.

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Simple Startup

It couldn't be easier to get your project going once you've contacted me. I'll walk you through the process from beginning to end so we both know what to expect.


what you'll pay

Depending on the scope of your project I will either charge you a flat fee or an hourly rate, or a combination of both. Either way it's money well spent.


what you'll get

I love when a client tells me I've given them more than they could have possibly hoped for, but I'm not really surprised because that's always my goal.