Great brands start here.

JTD & Associates has worked with some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Our design team can assist you in creating a new logo, refresh your existing logo, or enhance your logo with depth, color, and 3-D effects.

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Handcrafted. Brilliant. Unique.

John Taylor Dismukes & Associates brings you original illustration customized to fit you brand, goals and imagination. In an age where stock photographs and clip art are commonplace, A custom illustration from JTD & Associates can help your product stand apart from the crowd and give it a unique personality. Our talented artists work in a variety of illustration styles, from technical drawings to classical techniques and cutting-edge 3D renderings. If you can imagine it, we can illustrate it.

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Out of the box thinking.

John Taylor Dismukes & Associates break the mold with innovative packaging ideas that combine beautifully executed graphics with superior functionality. Our design team can assist you in creating product packaging that has great shelf impact, stands apart from competing products, and appeals to your target customer.

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Cover art as imaginative as the story inside.

John Taylor Dismukes & Associates’ artwork has graced dozens book and magazine covers. Our cover designs have been commissioned by top publishing firms such as Bantam, Penguin, Dark Horse and more.

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Everything else falls flat

Why limit yourself to just two dimensions? John Taylor Dismukes & Associates take digital design to the next level, bringing stunning clarity, depth and dimension to your design with 3D modeling and design. Our expert 3D modelers and animators can blur the line between fantasy and reality with photorealistic detail, or develop highly stylized characters and environments created just for you.

Our team can create realistic 3D logos, icons, virtual props, creatures, or realistic, detailed views of your product from multiple angles. Our custom 3D models can be a cost-effective alternative to illustration, and can be rendered in a variety of styles.

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Flawless, refined, and pixel-perfect.

John Taylor Dismukes & Associates are experts in digital retouching, editing, compositing and color correction to ensure that your design looks it’s absolute best. From fashion and glamour photography to flawless product shots, our retouchers can refine any image to perfection.

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Get a move on.

Breathe life into your illustrations, photos, and 3D models with motion and interactivity from JTD & Associates. How about an interactive gallery of your products? Or adding motion and interactivity to your illustrations for viewing on eBook readers, iPads, and mobile phones? We design our illustrations and graphics with the web in mind, with layers and transparency effects that make it easy to repurpose them for interactivity and on-screen viewing.

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Scare tactics.

After concepting and creating many blockbuster movie posters for renowned LA agency Seiniger Advertising, John Taylor Dismukes & Associates was selected to create a new campaign for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. With fierce competition from other regional amusement parks and other venues, attendance was dwindling and Universal was contemplating removing the event from its annual calendar. Under the direction of Mel Sant and Hal Kaufman, Dismukes & Associates was commissioned to create an attention-grabbing marketing campaign to re-energize the event. We agreed that the creative needed to be powerful, yet simple.

John Taylor Dismukes was the perfect choice to lead this project — his art has always been extreme. His team shot numerous reference photos of people, skulls and animal jaws under tightly pulled plastic bags, satin and other materials. It took an amazing amount of work to get the textures and feel just right. The initial designs were deemed “too scary” according to focus groups, so they were reworked to be more family friendly. The terrific collaborative team of Universal, Seiniger Advertising, and JTD & Associates enjoyed the entire creative exploration process.

Universal’s on-site billboards face the busy 101 freeway, and its trams are highly visible to passersby, so both were wrapped with the finished art to maximize ad dollars. Locals and tourists alike saw the artwork every day, which created quite a buzz.

The result was an overwhelming success. Universal’s annual Halloween event has become legendary, and these campaigns were relicensed by Universal’s Florida Park. Since then, our team has continued to work with Seiniger Advertising to create the Islands of Adventure theme park logo, as well as campaigns for many Universal attractions, including Waterworld, Jaws, The Hulk, and their annual Christmas event.

Got a monster of an idea? Let us help you bring it to life.

Taking The MotorCity Casino Logo Out For a Spin

Designed with input from renowned automotive designer Chip Foose, MotorCity Casino Hotel is Detroit’s most innovative entertainment venue and the crown jewel of the city’s skyline. Much like the building itself, the Motor City logo is a salute to Detroit’s celebrated era of tailfins, white-walls, and lots of shiny chrome.

To capture the mirror-like quality of chrome, John Taylor Dismukes & Associates was commissioned to create a version of the casino’s monogram in 3D. Created for ESW Partners Agency, under the direction of Greg King, we developed a 3D model of the logo which was then animated. ”Adding dimension to an existing logo creates excitement and allows you to extend its display options across multiple platforms,” says John Dismukes. “I’ve been called upon to create metal effects many times for clients like Sid Meyers, Steppenwolf and Harley Davidson, using traditional airbrush techniques or Photoshop” says Dismukes.

Today, modeling with 3D software is by far the best way to capture the reflections and detail necessary to create a convincing chrome effect.

Modeling a logo or product in 3D also offers a lot of versatility and flexibility. A 3D model can be rendered in high-resolution from any angle for print use, animated and composited into video, or allow for user interaction in multimedia applications.

MotorCity’s new 3D logo is used for video, multimedia, web and in many other business and consumer-facing applications… but it would also be right at home on the hood of any piece of fine detroit steel.

Today, modeling with 3D software is by far the best way to capture the reflections and detail necessary to create a convincing chrome effect.

— John Taylor Dismukes

Have you’ve picked out your costume for this year’s Halloween party? While you’re deciding between Lady Gaga or Hellboy, take a moment to consider dressing up your brand as well.

The typically sluggish month of October is a great time to have a little fun with your brand, and Halloween is the perfect excuse to break the rules a little or show your mischievous side. Here are just a few ways you can bring attention to your brand under the harvest moon:

• Put your website in a clever disguise. Use CSS stylesheets to temporarily change the colors and graphics, without affecting its functionality. With this approach you can easily “re-theme” your site for any holiday or season.
• Send a halloween card or email to your customers. Don’t wait for Christmas or New Year when everyone’s mailbox is full of similar sentiments. Your message may be lost among the heap.  Reach out to your customers now, before the holiday rush.
• Sponsor a halloween event or party in your community. A small investment can reap lots of goodwill among your customers.
• Have fun with your print advertising. This is one of the few times that you can get away with deviating from your brand standards, if you do it cleverly and with purpose.
• Hold an online costume contest for your customers. Invite them to share photos of themselves. Tie in your product or service if possible (perhaps your product must be included in the photo). Let your customers vote for their favorite.
• Create special holiday packaging for food and beverage products. Candy, cookies, cereals, snack foods and beverages have shelf great appeal to customers and their kids when they’re dressed up for the party.

Here are a few great examples of Halloween-branded campaigns that were done by other companies…