Exploring Endless Possibilities for Expression and Connection

“Art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I’m telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.” These words come from Guillermo del Toro, Mexican filmmaker who directed the Academy Award-winning fantasy films Pan’s Labyrinth and The Shape of Water, winning the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for the latter.

Literally, graphic design turns ideas into visions, and visions into reality. Through branding, illustration, animation, and print, you serve as a visionary, helping others to see high-level concepts and learn how things work. The world's best-known visual storyteller—Walt Disney—says it straight: “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

Graphic Design Services Menu:  Illustration | Animation | Branding | Print

Illustration

A Global Community Celebrating Live Music on HIVE

Hive Open Mic is a virtual live music event on the HIVE Blockchain, attracting hundreds of musicians and thousands of listeners. Community members select a new theme each week, giving musicians common ground for their expressions. To promote this event, we designed a series of 200+ contemplative artworks, with posters for online sharing.

This community launched in 2020, offering a much-needed stage for expression and connection worldwide. Global harmony continues to be mission of this organization, with weekly events still underway five years later. World peace is the vision. And in fact, music is a universal language that unites us all.

“The meaning of people with flower heads goes beyond mere aesthetics. It symbolizes a harmonious connection between humans and nature. It’s a celebration of the unique beauty in every person, and the blossoming of everyone’s uniquely beautiful being.” —Cabe Lindsay

Fine Art Illustrations for Mental Health Awareness at the Conscious Awakening Conference

The Conscious Awakening Conference is a three-day Austin-based event that blends mental health, psychedelics, and spirituality through compassionate dialogue. Originated by Betting On Love and founder Sunshine Grace, the experience celebrates self-expression, connection, and play. Our media team promoted the event with dozens of fascinating watercolor artworks featuring people with flower heads, by Cabe Lindsay.

Animation + Motion Graphics

The “Crystalline Charm” music video is hand-illustrated with an ultra-minimalist aquamarine backdop

This lyric video focuses on the words, supported by simple, subtle animated illustrations that enhance the emotional feeling. The hand-drawn artwork is designed to delight the imagination while keeping the audience’s attention on the song itself—an anthem for the redemption that comes from within. “Crystalline Charm” is the first single and title track of the upcoming album by Melissa Gail Klein.

Animated motion graphics introducing 20 episodes of the Wild Family TV show

The opening sequence of the Wild Family TV show is a series of silhouettes, hinting at human interaction with wild animals. The motion graphics effects are eye-catching enough to keep viewers of all ages engaged with the intro. The animation works on a subtle emotional level too, because it is rich in symbolism, vibrant art, and movement. Most importantly, it delivers information while hinting at what the show is all about.

Lyric Video Introduces the Album Title Song

Prior to launching the “Colors Flying” music video, we created a lyric video, intending to emphasize the message and meaning behind the song. With attractive typography, subtle color waves, and captivating textures, this video paints the music with high energy. This type of music video is trending on YouTube. For my music by this band, see Cosmic Butterflies.

Visualizing a Song in Artful Animation with Heart

This animated music video visualizes a song about being an artist, following a passion. Only in the animation art form can we achieve such a dazzling display of artistry and style. This video brings us all the way up from mountain scene to the heavenly heights, complete with birds, butterflies, and angels galore—glorious angels! “Colors Flying” is a song by Cosmic Butterflies.

Vivid Watercolor Art in an Animated Music Video

This stylized animated music video emphasizes the raw, natural, human touch of this all-acoustic song. “Brave Spirit” is Cosmic Butterflies' #1 single. This video displays hand-drawn illustrations and vibrant watercolor splashes. True to the band’s message, this distinct art direction allows the story to come through in a way that is relatable to all people, making it as modern as it is timeless.

“One Eternal Token for Global Harmony” is an NFT Collection

Here is a 5-minute intro to NFTs (non-fungible tokens), featuring some animated crypto art. This video reveals the inner workings of an NFT entering the art market. If NFTs are new to you, it might be helpful to think them as crypto-art. These are digital artworks and collectibles that are tracked on a blockchain with a unique certificate of authenticity. NFTs produce real value because of their rarity and proof of registration.

NFT marketplaces open new fields of possibility for artists to sell digital artworks, including videos and animations, such as the animated gif tokens you see above. Here are some of the outstanding marketplaces where NFTs are minted and sold: OpenSea, Rarible, Nifty, SuperRare, and NFT Showroom. Reach out with any questions—we’re happy to help!

Animation > Cartoons

“Veggie Bros” is a comic strip brought to life through simple animation. It stars two talkative eggplants: Larry and Leon, each with distinct personalities and much to say.

What do you get when flamboyance and machismo find common ground? This cartoon introduces Larry and Leon, a.k.a. “Veggie Bros” as a bite-size mini-movie. As the story develops, these animated eggplants escape from the kitchen cutting board with help from a kid who hates vegetables. Once they’re free, these eggplants explore the reaches of their creative potentials out in the wild.

All things are possible through animated videos. You can express vital information. You can explain complex ideas. You can do anything imaginable through moving illustrations and motion graphics. For example, the cartoon shown here gives eggplants a snappy personality, presented in a humorous social media promo video for Grow Local South Texas.

Hippo Bubble Games Presents the Dr. Algorithm Educational Software

This animated video promotes an educational software called Dr. Algorithm. This 30-sec commercial debuted at a 2011 event called 3 Day Startup, which is now a powerful global program that introduces emerging entrepreneurs to established investors. We designed and developed this video within two days, working around-the-clock.

Serenity Kids Introduces Grain Free Puffs

This animated promo video presents the story of a little girl whose disappointment in puffs leads her to greener pastures. Grain Free Puffs is an exciting Paleo snack by the Serenity Kids brand of baby food products. Serenity Kids is based in Austin, with global distribution through Whole Foods and other market places. This vertical animated promo video is made for Instagram, consistent with the existing branding: bright, minimalist shapes.

Animation > AI Generative Art

Visionary Love Stories Featuring the Trending Techniques and Creative Leaps in AI Animation

The 2025 music video for “Path of Love” by Cosmic Butterflies features a polar bear cub in an epic search for his mama bear, at a fragile time of global warming. This represents the current trailblazing AI animation capabilities of Adobe Firefly in a short film created for the AI Animation Competition by Promise + Curious Refuge. Another  example of Firefly's AI generative art is “Close To You,” from the album Lover Songs (2024). 

These three pioneering AI animated videos by Cosmic Butterflies come from the early era before AI generative art met the masses. Deforum Stable Diffusion and Google Colab were the specific technologies we used generate these stunning animations. 

Before generative AI art hit the mainstream, these underground tools allowed boundary-pushing artists and innovators to create stunning, dreamlike visuals—especially for music videos. This era was a kind of digital renaissance, where open-source innovation met poetic imagination.

Branding

A Hummingbird’s Flight: The Spirit of Austin Ecstatic Rhythms

Austin Ecstatic Rhythms is a community of 4.6K members. As one of the world's largest ecstatic dance communities, hosting events with 200+ people, the organization needed a logo with hummingbirds to represent the magical connections that happen on the dance floor. This brand served as the look and feel for the thriving Facebook community, and we also built a website to streamline communication such as community guidelines and other details about the people and the practice.  https://austinecstaticrhythms.com

Feather Lightwork - Podcast for Health, Wealth, and Connection

This video podcast offers a focus on self mastery through self-discovery, self-acceptance, and self-care. Episodes help people to remember and renew their roles as their own greatest healer, teacher, and ally in life. Topics cover self-empowerment with unlimited potential for health, wealth, and connection. https://www.featherlightwork.com

A Heart Within an Atom: Audrey Love’s Unique Work

Audrey Love is an energy medicine practitioner. Her main service offerings include energy work, embodiment coaching, and education. To promote her brand, we began with a full-spectrum logo campaign that included various brand emblems and a stylized namedrop in the earth tones of copper and forest green. Appearing online, on business cards, and in print, her brand imagery is conceptual art that allows viewers to visualize her unique expertise. For example, a heart shape inside an atom that illustrates an Adamantine particle. Her website features portrait photography, and she also has a collection of videos, all indicating the high quality of her craft. https://audrey.love

Austin Area Lakeside Real Estate at Wood Shores

Wood Shores is a residential real estate development project just outside of Austin, Texas. Delivering information and a great impression, the website offers a clean, minimalist, elegant presentation that is fully responsive, meaning it self-adjusts to the various viewing devices such as a phone, tablet, or laptop, or desktop computer. Dynamic features include an interactive map and a standard contact form. Looking closely at the Wood Shores logo, you can see subtle shapes of stars, sparkles, and hearts, indicating a high level of care and quality behind this brand. We designed this logo for a large-scale sign to be placed on the property, with variations for other marketing purposes too. https://woodshorestx.com

Superfoods, Supplements, and Support for Whole Health

Superfoods Dudes is a health and wellness specialty company with resources and products to support holistic health. Their website includes detailed watercolor illustrations to illustrate the various concepts surrounding holistic health—physical, emotional, and mental well-being. The Superfoods Dudes product line includes superfoods and supplements, and the organization offers informative articles and consultation services to support people in all of their wellness goals. To promote this e-commerce website, we created a huge library of conceptual artworks, recognizably branded with consistent color, style, and tone, supported by a singular logo to tie it all together.  https://superfoodsdudes.com

“The experience exceeded my expectations on all levels. While they are great at their craft and business, they are even better people. They cared about my project and were sensitive to my needs and schedule as a person. It was an awesome experience and whether it’s for personal or professional needs, I will continue to work with them every chance I get!” —Ralph Sharp

Print + Publishing

Every Little Bee-ing has a Big Place of Bee-longing

Be Well Bee is a classic children's book written and illustrated by Cabe Lindsay, published by Arise Media Studio. The book launched in 2013, boosted by a successful Kickstarter Campaign. In this story, a remarkable honey bee meets her destiny, when she learns about a snow lily, on the verge of extinction. She does everything in her power to pollinate this flower. 

Wild Wyoming Legends Live in the Wyld Fiction Novel Series

Arise Media Studio's artworks extend to music, illustration, and media publishing. Print publications include the non-fiction book: Big Idea Patterns; a series of art books titled Always Never Sometimes: Roots, Breakthroughs, Blooms, Fruits, and Roots to Fruits; children’s books: Be Well Bee, Brave Spirit, I Walk In Beauty, and Wild Wyoming; youth fiction novels: Wyld, Wyld 2... 

Art “works” by encouraging people to express and connect. Music, literature, films, and other art forms stir the emotions and stimulate the imagination, sending us on journeys through the unknown. Art delivers us to places of discovery and wonder. Our creative endeavors inspire action in others, leaving lasting impressions, potentially making the world more beautiful and wonderful with every work of art.

Print + Publishing > Book Promotion

A Journey to Fertilize a Faraway Flower

The Be Well Bee children's book launch party happened in Austin, Texas, during the Spring of 2013, featuring special guest bee expert Kim Lehman, and activities all about bees, book building, and other bzzzarre things. 

A Guide Book About Inner Transformation

Mindful Metamorphosis is a nonfiction self-help book by Michele Schalin. A packed audience attended the book launch party at Vintage Wine and Books in Austin, Texas. This book shares techniques for cultivating self-love, healing from trauma, controlling your thoughts, regulating emotions, and changing subconscious beliefs. 

A Quest to Rekindle for a Forgotten Dream

The Scent of Dreams is a children's book written by Sarah Lessire and illustrated by Jen Carnes. This is a book for any reader's inner child, blending surreal logic and symbolic fantasy. It is a story designed to share, to read, to give and to receive, and most importantly, a story to live.