Ryan Shivar

Recent logo and identity work.

• IBM: Responsible for all illustration, photography selection/editing, icons, copy input/edits and revising UX as needed based on content for ibm.com

• Laughing Gull Foundation: Visual/UI Design (Wireframes by Melanie Passajou-Dick)

• VUDI: Eat Local, Be Vocal.
VUDI (vegan foodie) is a lifestyle app for vegans, vegetarians, flexitarians, locavores, environmentalists, health-conscious and dairy-free eaters. You can search for vegan-friendly restaurants and markets near you while also posting photos, reviews and ratings. Created the concept, brand, UI design

Branding for the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a historic non-profit theatre hosting concerts, comedy, lectures, dance, live theater, independent film and film festivals. In Downtown Durham since 1926.

Duke Alumni
• E-mail/web graphics for "Transformative Ideas" series at the Duke Forever Learning Institute
• Concept for "Arches & Dome" luxury brand inspired gift box for donors
• 90's themed e-mail & web graphics for donor outreach and Last Day of Classes events
• E-mail/web graphics for DEMAN Arts & Media Weekend, a weekend celebrating creativity at Duke

Duke Theater
• Promotional design for productions of Twelfth Night, RENT and Eurydice

Duke Music
• Fall 2023 Performance Series Postcard

In 2023 North Carolina Biotechnology Center launched a federally funded outreach program called Accelerate NC to connect underrepresented communities to life sciences manufacturing jobs. I did design for various projects including ads, email graphics, website, instructional sheets and presentations.

Retro is a repertory film program of Friday night double-features and weekend-long series. It is dedicated to bringing classic movies back to the big screen. Retro rebranded in 2019 and now bears the vintage neon sign inspired logo that you see now.

• Nashbar Catalog Characters

• Local Pride Cycling Jerseys

• Cookies & Milk Characters

• Self-Portrait for Employee Profile

• Nautical Kids Bike

• Pirate Kids Bike

• Cupcakes & Ice Cream Kids Bike

• Toddler Helmet Pattern

‘Restoring Hope’ is a museum exhibit telling the story of the Carolina Theatre volunteers, a passionate group of concerned citizens. They saved the theater from demolition and set the stage for the arts in Downtown Durham.

(Exhibit and photos are a work in progress, proper lighting to follow)

Logo design, branding and posters for The Pinhook, Downtown Durham's LGBTQ-friendly bar and underground music venue.

MovieDiva: Comedies with strong female characters from Hollywood’s Golden Age.

ComiQuest: Presented in conjunction with Ultimate Comics during NC Comicon.

Nevermore: New and Independent horror from all over the world, since 1999.

Hitchcock: Retrospective of films by the master of suspense.

OutSouth Queer Film Festival is the new name for the former North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Inaugural festival in 2020.