Art and Design by Shyama Golden

Grassroot Institute of Hawaii Website

Shyama — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:47:36 +0000

GRIH is one of the most recent websites and logos I have designed. I have a special place in my heart for projects where I get to design the logo/identity as well as the website. I don’t always post web projects here, but in this case the client gave me complete freedom and I think we were both pleased with the result.

7 Women book project

Shyama — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:10:11 +0000

Here are a couple of character sketches from my latest gig!

Kids Article Icons for Texas Monthly

Shyama — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:18:12 +0000

I did this series of icons for the cover feature of of Texas Monthly magazine, about “68 awesome things to do with your kids.” They were in the April issue this year. These guys were 100% vector scalable goodness.

Ride Texas Magazine Illustration

Shyama — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:39:52 +0000

Click the Spread to see a larger image. This will appear in the May issue of Ride Texas Magazine. And yes, the fact that it’s called Travels with the Llama is purely coincidental!

Downtown Living Tour

Shyama — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:39:58 +0000

SO my place was a stop on a the downtown living tour, a good excuse to clean it! Here are some pics.

3′ x 5′ canvas of fish

Shyama — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:31:36 +0000

They’re giant floating heads!

Gina and Max painting

Shyama — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:53:23 +0000

Just finished this last night. It’s oil on 3′ x 2′ canvas.

DLT shirts

Shyama — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:40:54 +0000

Did a quick sketch for the downtown living tour t-shirts

Austin Monthly cover

Shyama — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:38:16 +0000

Doing a cover illo for Austin Monthly, AD asked for a vintage postcard theme with modes of transportation for “fall getaways”. Here is the sketch, 1st draft and final.

Gotham Kitty

Shyama — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:32:52 +0000

Here he is. I realized how much I miss painting!

and here is some process