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	<title>ALAN VALEK</title>
	<link>http://www.alanvalek.com</link>
	<description>art direction + graphic design</description>
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		<title>Tony Hawk Ride XBOX 360 Giveaway</title>
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Thanks to all that entered the Wii contest last week — now let&#8217;s get to the XBOX 360 giveaway, same rules apply. Good luck!

And the winner is&#8230;..

Thanks to all who entered!!!!!

How to Enter:


Leave a comment and make sure you fill out the &#8220;email field&#8221; (emails are kept private).
That&#8217;s it.
Winner will be contacted via email on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/02/08/tony-hawk-ride-xbox-360-giveaway/</link>
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		<title>Flip Extremely Sorry DVD</title>
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With Flip Skateboards launching their 3rd and final installment of the &#8220;Sorry&#8221; series they commisioned me to take care of the packaging &#38; DVD menu design as well as orchestrating the entire project with all vendors. This film used multiple claymations made by Edgar Alvarez &#38; crew, so needless to say there was no shortage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/portfolio/2010/02/01/flip-extremely-sorry-dvd/</link>
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		<title>Tony Hawk Ride Wii Giveaway</title>
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I have a couple extra copies of Tony Hawk Ride that I would like to give away to visitors of my website as a thank you for stopping by. This week I&#8217;m giving away 1 (one) copy for the Nintendo Wii — next week I&#8217;ll have a XBOX 360 version to give away too&#8230;.
And the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/02/01/tony-hawk-ride-wii-giveaway/</link>
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		<title>Baker Skateboards Web Catalog</title>
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More and more of my clients are reducing the amount of print collateral they run — case in point the Baker Skateboards Spring 2010 Web Catalog. They requested that the pages be designed as if it was for a print catalog, but wanted them shown in a slideshow presentation on the web instead. The final [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/portfolio/2010/02/01/baker-skateboards-web-catalog/</link>
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		<title>Thank You Very Much Card</title>
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With our Vegas Wedding in the books that meant the thank you cards were next on the list&#8230;what to do?..Elvis of course, glitter and all — Thank you&#8230;thank you very much.







The Process

Go head over to the blog for the step by step design process &#38; material overview for this project.

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		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/portfolio/2010/01/29/thank-you-very-much-card/</link>
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		<title>Alan Valek Business Card</title>
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When it came time to design my business cards this time around I really wanted to go with something minimal, but wanted them to have a technical printing flair as well. The cards printed by Dicksons in Atlanta, GA who specialize in custom jobs — highly recommended. Black Royal Compliments paper was duplexed to achieve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/portfolio/2010/01/10/alan-valek-business-card/</link>
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		<title>Thank you&#8230;thank you very much.</title>
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With our Vegas Wedding in the books that meant the thank you cards were next on the list&#8230;what to do?..Elvis of course, glitter and all — Thank you&#8230;thank you very much. Check the play-by-play below&#8230;







The Process.

After cutting and scoring the paper I traced over the lettering with a glue pen — you can only do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/01/10/thank-you-thank-you-very-much/</link>
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		<title>Amazing Chapters.</title>
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If you&#8217;re looking for a new album to check out, look no further than The Dear &#38; Departed&#8217;s new EP &#8220;Chapters&#8221;, I picked it up last night from iTunes and haven&#8217;t been able to take it off repeat yet. The stand-out tracks for me are &#8220;It Looks Like Rain&#8221; &#38; &#8220;There for the Taking.&#8221; Take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/01/05/amazing-chapters/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Touched.</title>
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I have been honored this week by being included in the Concrete Wave Magazine iPhone Application as their featured designer showcasing 10 select graphics from my work with Baker Skateboards. Concrete Wave Magazine has done a great job with this app as well — clean design, very nice Twitter intergration, news section, fan wall, weekly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2010/01/05/im-touched/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year!</title>
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I wanted to take a minute and wish everybody a safe and happy new years. I would like to make a extra special shout-out to all my fellow Twitter peeps + fellow Facebookers (holla!!!) and not to mention my close friends &#38; family.  On top of everything else, 2009 was a very special year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alanvalek.com/blog/2009/12/31/happy-new-year/</link>
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