Ross Bruggink Select Works

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Welcome to the temporary home of my select works. Please be patient while I wrestle html and javascript into a more presentable form.Beautiful design lies in the balance between trend, aesthetics, concept, and usability. I strive to base my work on engaging concepts that produce inspiring visuals.I'm finishing up a year at Spunk Design Machine and am availabe for freelance or hire. When I'm not designing I'm writing music, mopeding, or playing cribbage.

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Smashing Alphabets Poster

What would happen if two words smashed into each other? Probably a lot of smoke and flourishes and maybe even a letterpressed poster. This poster was printed by the good folks at Studio on Fire, promoting a speaking tour for Chank Diesel, a local alphabetician. Using his font, Venus, I designed a two-color poster to attract designers and artists with a taste for beautiful typography.Tour information can be found here and a Studio on Fire's blog post can be found here.

College of Design Style Guide

As a recent graduate from the University of Minnesots College of Design, I was honored with the task of designing the style guide for the new College of Design brand. The guide consists of 160 in-depth pages establishing a brand based off transformation and curiosity. I also designed style guide fold-out posters with a quick brand summary. The College of Design event posters and Emerging publication were designed at the collage, following style guidelines.

Rollergirls & Equal Exchange Coffee

The refined and expanded version of Rise n' Shiner Coffee, a blend distributed by Equal Exchange and the Minnesota RollerGirls. I collaborated with Jessica Keintz on this project, which won us much needed caffeine, chocolate, and tasty pecans.

Oxygen Plus Packaging

No longer exclusive to atheletes. Oxygen Plus has harnessed the natural recover power of pure oxygen into three different flavors. I designed packaging for three different flavors in two different varieties. Each box has a die cut window and metallic printing. Woot!

Kelly Jo Mitchell

Kelly Jo Mitchell, an aspiring artist from Minneapolis, is producing a fresh musical sound that requires fresh aesthetic appeal. To set her apart in the robust Minneapolis music scene I created a unified visual system for her business cards, posters, website, and album. Simple and effective design solutions, such as two color-printing and an easily updateable website, overcame the limitations of a low budget. A big thanks to Bobby Marko for coding that beautiful site.

Nova Scotia Identity Design

A four-month-long project that branded the province of Nova Scotia. The process consisted of research about the province, competition, and audience. This campaign was targeted toward middle-aged professionals with active lifestyles. All the research and style guidelines were cataloged in four books (Discover, Define, Design, and Develop). All visuals and language for the Nova Scotia brand focused on reaching the target audience and selling an effective experience.

Tier Water

Identity, stationary, naming, and packaging created for a fictitious caffine-infused water. The name is derived from the caffinated-high and lofty sophistication felt while drinking a bottle.

Logos

Nothing is better than the dynamic of conceptual complexity and visual simplification behind a logo. These are a selection of some of my favorite marks.