I need to get off my but and do stuff. I need to be less worried about what people think of my work and just get pieces done. I feel no confidence in my writing or designing without a classroom. I fear competition rather than savoring it as I used to. Things that I think …
I think I finally have a site design that I can live with. I tried to go for a clean look with a bit of texture. Other influences include apple’s reflections and adobe lightroom’s overlay style panels. I really wanted to include a large teaser image from my portfolio, but I couldn’t make it work …
“You need to know the rules in order to break them.”-Peter Girardi From Aquent’s “Design Thinking Out Loud- What I didn’t learn in School“
“Don’t try to be original- try to be good.”-Paul Rand
I found this group of artists, Random International that created a paint roller so you can literally print on the wall. Check out the video:Pixelroller They also sell instant labeling tape that you just blacken out parts you don’t need to write messages. Not as cool as the pixel roller but it’s still afun idea. …
Here’s a t-shirt design that was scrapped this morning. Apparently I went too 70’s on them. Personally, I liked it a lot- 70’s? Groovy! I had worked a long time on the lettering so it’d be kind of readable but still very much shapes. They didn’t like it. Gah. Apparently they wanted more retro…. less …
While surfing some of my webcomics, I found a link to a Japanese web award page ( I think ). What was cool about it was the use of flash to change to mouse pointer into well… a huge foam pointer/float carried around by a bunch of guys. It’s hilarious and worth a minute to …
This assignment we had to create a set of posters for student nutrition and health. I chose to advertise water as being a better choice over soda. My intended to create a series of situations where soda was obviously a bad drink choice. I chose to make them illustrations rather than photos to exaggeurate the …
I just was surfing apple’s website and came across some people I know. In Tokyo, one of our guest lecturers was Eric Cruz from W+K Tokyo Lab Studio. www.wktokyolab.com Here’s the link to apple’s short ad about them.http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/wk/ “W+K Tokyo Lab is a new music label concept launched by Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo in 2003. Our mission …