MARKETING DESIGN
This section of my portfolio is constantly evolving. In my role as Senior Graphic Designer at Irving Torres Branding & Marketing, I'm engaged in a diverse array of projects, ranging from email campaigns and packaging to social media content. My responsibilities extend to tasks like updating digital menu boards, newsletter scheduling, social media management, and the compilation of social media insight reports. For a look at my most up to date work, check out The Pie Hole and Pandor Bakery.
IDW PUBLISHING BOOK DESIGN
This collection showcases a selection of books I've had the privilege of working on. I’ve also included a quick preview of my IDW Publishing Masthead system redesign and its various applications. It was built with versatility in mind, leaving room for various issue numbers, licensor logos, special edition titles, etc. I designed that masthead in 2020, and it is still in use today! My role in the book and TPB design process encompassed creating captivating front and back covers, crafting engaging interior pages, and enhancing the reader experience with introductory and bonus content pages. Within this workflow, my responsibilities ranged from precise text input and meticulous letter and art editing to strategically placing ads and fine-tuning color corrections. It's crucial to note that my responsibilities also involved the ability to anticipate potential hiccups and adaptability in order to respond swiftly and ensure timely book publication.
IDW GATEWAY COLLECTION CATALOG
The IDW Publishing Top 50 Gateway Collection Catalog showcased the best of the best of IDW Publishing, IDW Games, IDW Entertainment, YOE Books, Euro Comics, Top Shelf, and The Library of American Comics releases. This was designed to introduce new fans to the exciting IDW Publishing world and celebrate titles and IPs faithful fans would recognize. This was eventually handed out at conventions like San Diego Comic Con and Wonder Con in Anaheim.
PACKAGING CONCEPTS
These Overwatch boardgame and Over the Garden Wall boardgame packaging concepts stem from a design exploration focused on bringing beloved intellectual properties to life. The 3D mockups showcase envisioned lines of primary tabletop games and their potential counterpart expansions. (Disclaimer: These are conceptual designs and not actual products.)
IDW GAMES PUZZLES
New series of licensed premium puzzles featuring art from Sonic The Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Wynonna Earp, and more! Featuring artwork from fan-favorite artists. These 1000-piece suitable for framing puzzles are manufactured in the USA from 100% recycled materials and built for puzzle hobbyists and fans alike. The first two puzzles launched in the IDW Games line were Sonic The Hedgehog and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, both slated for release in September 2018.
TMNT ADVENTURES
Battle with your brothers through the streets of New York City to defend your town from the sinister Baxter Stockman and his technological terrors! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures: Change Is Constant is a scenario-driven miniatures role-playing game created in IDW's Adventures Universal Game System.
It's dark times for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! The Shredder has seized control of the city and worse, he's brainwashed Leonardo into joining the Foot Clan! It's time to add more heroes to the fight! With Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures: Cityfall, take up arms as Splinter, April, Old Hob, Angel, or Slash and help the Turtles take back the city!
The design of the games and packages were a given, but the launch of the game also involved an ambitious Kickstarter campaign that ended up raising upwards of $800,000.
BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES ADVENTURES
Running off IDW Games' miniatures-driven "Adventures Universal Game System" (AUGS) engine, Batman: The Animated Series Adventures – Shadow of the Bat allows players to take the role of any hero in their roster in the game's 24 unique missions, which are all inspired by fan-favorite episodes. Even villains can be swapped out in every mission to change up the threats that players will face. The launch of the game involved an ambitious Kickstarter campaign that ended up raising upwards of $1,600,000.
NICKELODEON SPLAT ATTACK
Nickelodeon’s Splat Attack! is a fast and frantic food fighting board game for 2 to 4 players. The game features 90's Nicktoon characters such as those from SpongeBob Squarepants, Invader Zim, Hey Arnold!, Rugrats and more! The design of the game and packaging were a given, but the launch of the game also involved an ambitious Kickstarter campaign that ended up raising close to $100,000.
DRAGONBALL Z: PERFECT CELL
The Cell Games are on the world’s greatest fighters have gathered to see if they have what it takes to defeat Cell, the perfect warrior. Teaming up to take him down, Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Krillin, Trunks and Piccolo must strategize together in order to stop the supposedly unstoppable machine. The design process involved building out all components from concept to final product- including tokens, dice, gameboard, packaging, and playing cards.
TMNT MUNCHKIN
Munchkin: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles puts you right into the roles of the Turtles to team up and fight evil! This game takes the butt-kicking, backflipping ninja stylings of the TMNT and combines it with the dungeon-exploring, loot-hoarding gameplay of Munchkin! Play as Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael along with April O’Neil and Casey Jones to take on Shredder, Krang and even more as you race to level 10!
GHOSTBUSTERS BLACKOUT
Ghostbusters: Blackout is a cooperative board game for 2-4 players. In it, players roll dice and allocate them to move around the city, capture ghosts, and buy upgrades for their ghost-busting tech, all while trying to keep the city from collapsing from the ensuing haunted chaos!
DRAGONBALL Z GAME TINS
It’s a fight for the future in Dragon Ball Super: Heroic Battle! A flicking fighting game, Heroic Battle has you flicking Goku, Vegeta, Goku Black, or Zamasu into your opponents to deal damage and gain power.
The greatest fighters in the Dragon Ball Z universe have assembled to see who is the mightiest of them all! Part bluffing game, part deduction, Dragon Ball Z: Over 9000 has players selecting an iconic hero or villain from Dragon Ball Z and competing against their friends to be the first to get their power level over 9000!
TMNT PIZZA PARTY
The Ninja Turtles are having a totally radical pizza party, and players are the chefs of honor! Players will need to make the most extreme pizzas on the planet To shell-shock their customers with their outrageous creations! One must work quickly though, because as a player is slamming down slices, so are are their friends, and the first chef to earn 15 points by making the best pizzas wins! A fast-paced pizza-building game featuring your favorite turtle toppings!
DEATH NOTE: CONFRONTATION
Death Note: Confrontation is a 2 player cat and mouse style investigative game in which one player takes on the Role of legendary Interpol detective L, and the other plays as the seemingly supernatural Kira. L sets out to stop Kira from punishing those he sees deserving of the ultimate penalty of death. Each player uses their character’s specified notebook and either, as L, reveal criminal targets to systematically locate Kira, or, as Kira, eliminate those targets in order to gain enough victory points.
INVADER ZIM: DOOMSDAY DICE
In Invader Zim: Doomsday dice game, you and up to three of your friends play as either Zim or GIR working for their almighty tallish irkin overlords, or as dib or Agent darkbootie working to destroy the earth (yay!) or save it (Boo!). Connect matching cards and earn power surges that let you roll the big die. The more rolls, The more power you can generate. You might even get to roll the tiny special die (aww, it's cute!). Be careful though, as rolling either die can end in a fizzle or a malfunction, costing you all the energy you've earned or even breaking your machine! The first player to earn 100 energy wins, and everyone else owes them taquitos!
TMNT SHOWDOWN
TMNT Showdown: Bebop & Rocksteady Madness! places the Turtles in their most precarious situation yet! This tile-laying smash ’em up has players racing to the finish as either the Turtles or two of their deadliest foes: Bebop and Rocksteady.
Outpost games are a cooperative game where all of the Players either win or lose the game as a team! In order to win, all of the Players must survive until reaching the end of the Expedition deck. If a single Player is knocked out, everyone loses! Can your expedition make it through the unexplored wilderness?
SONIC DICE RUSH
Speed is Sonic's game, and in Sonic The Hedgehog Dice Rush, 2 to 4 players are in a real-time race to build the best Sonic the Hedgehog level. Players simultaneously roll their dice and match the results with cards featuring sections from a classic 2D sonic level. Cards connect seamlessly with one other, quickly creating unique obstacles and boosts. But you Gotta Go Fast! As certain sections will score you extra points, while others will cost you!