Chris Schwaar

Category: Design

  • Poster sketches

    More posters.

  • More posters

    More design work today.Really enjoying working on posters right now – going to take advantage of the excitement while it’s sticking around.

  • Bears’ loss and Precious poster

    The Bears lost to the Saints in the first round of the playoffs today.It was an extremely tough loss – cemented by injuries that benched three key defensive players and two offensive. Even if the Bears had won, they would have lost to the Packers next week, but it’s still a fairly brutal way to…

  • Wild Days

    Today, a group of protestors stormed the U.S. Capital building. I think it was genuinely the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Instead of pondering and writing more on that… I’m just going to share some of the art I did today. Goodnight all…

  • Book Cover Design

    The start of a new cover design for Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders. Started alongside a new Skillshare class, taught by Jessica Hische.

  • Pear Poster

    Today (Christmas) I drew a picture of a pear while sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee with two of my siblings. Then, later in the day, I watched my class of the day. It was on poster design, so I decided to throw together a quick poster. I’m going to make it better.

  • Project 52, week 9

    Me and two friends are still doing a weekly poster design challenge. Every Sunday, we share our poster we made that week with each other – though usually it’s made that day, and sometimes not made until Monday or Tuesday. Here is mine from this week (today)! I made it while watching a Skillshare class…

  • Cold Brew packaing

    I spent much of the day working on this. A new cold brew label for Interval Coffee – where I’m now running graphics and rebrand. It’s a fun gig. I get to do a lot of stuff like this. I also spent some of the day – though hopefully not as much as other –…

  • Graphic design process

    In the spirit of showing some of the process of my work… here is a snapshot in Adobe Illustrator of a project I’m working on for a favorite local coffee shop. I’m in the initial stages of recreating all their coffee bag labels, as well as rebranding the shop as a whole – new logo,…