Ryan Hicks Works
UX Design. Identity. Illustration.
Web. Image. Music. Print. Livery.
Works / 2010
notespark
Identity / Notespark
October 29 2010.

Notespark is a popular note-taking, syncing, and sharing app for iPhones, iPads, and the web. The brief was short and simple: "We have a solid product but our mark is meh, please make it awesome."

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inu not for anyone cover
Music / Inu Not For Anyone
May 25 2010.

The artwork for "Not for Anyone" started with key elements of the art direction already set by Count. I expanded on the direction with additional photo-composite collage, noise, and type treatments to create this four-panel cd package.

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cs5 desktop
Identity / CS5 Desktop Brand
April 28 2010.

The Adobe / Macromedia merger created a massive product brand and identity strategy challenge: two distinctly different companies became one, with the combined product offering somewhere in the neighborhood of over a hundred unique identities, which all must evolve into a cohesive and functional interoperable system (which in turn must also represent Adobe as a proud parent brand.) As a result, Adobe has the single biggest visually integrated brand system in history.

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