Showing posts with label graphic design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphic design. Show all posts

Thursday, October 2, 2014

An Absurd Memory

Blind in Life - Blind in Death

New assignment! This is one of the first projects we as students have done for an outside client. The goal was to capture the essence of seven short plays by renowned playwright Samuel Beckett for an upcoming performance at Johnson County Community College. The plays include:

Act Without Words II: In which two people of disparate personalities are stored in sacks.

Ohio Impromptu: In which an old man reads from a cryptic tome to an old mute man.

What Where: In which there are only five left of a group of four men.

Play: In which three burial urns take turns spinning yarns.

Come and Go: In which three women sit on a bench.

Breath: In which there is breath.

Footfalls: In which a sick child either exists or does not.

Death and confusion play major roles in each performance, which is why my main graphic consists of a sightless skull. The icons overlaid on top represent imagery from the individual acts. They are loosely joined by broken, ashy lines, implying the thematic ties that necessarily join each, but only in a superficial - or broken - nature.

Bring your kids!

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Curves and Lines


You know those times when you want to convey a certain feeling in text and none of the fonts you look at convey that feeling so you make the font yourself?

I'm right in the middle of that.
 

Graphic design of the words "graphic design." I am aware of the meta.Lern to Kern

Fact: Business cards don't need phone numbers.



Right now I'm building all the characters in Illustrator out of circles and lines and using pathfinder selections to selectively add and remove elements.
As you may have guessed, this is for a business card. For the time being I'm just building the words I need ad hoc, but someday when I have some more free time I might expand this out into a complete font. It's got a cool, clean geometric feel that I really like.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Method to Madness

Extremely orderly and precise, in the same way that a schizophrenic person isn't.

 Click to enlarge? Yes, you can. Go for it. Follow your dreams. I believe in you.

It's not strictly part of my graphic design classes, but this handout I designed for a schizophrenia presentation in Psychology class is pretty fancy.

Kinda makes me wish I was doing the OCD presentation so I could change the order of the last set of icons. Or change fonts midway through. Or make the whole thing slightly askew. Or stop brainstorming ways to torment those with mental illnesses.

The title font is Quaver Sans by TippleType, and can be found at LostType.com, an awesome site for donationware fonts.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Low Relief

We've been moving right along in Design 3D, with all sorts of paper engineering stuff. I don't have any of those to show you yet,but here's a bunch of little fluttery thingies arranged in a diamond shape!
Oh here I am just relaxing and enjoying my afternoon way over here when suddenly-

-BOOM RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!

The project was to take a single form, make it into a cell, and repeat it into a grid. So I did that. Yup.

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Monochrome Photo Week! Day 1: Up in the Rafters

I'm sorry, blog. I've been ignoring you lately. Things have been happening so fast that I lost track of the time. But I'm gonna make it up to you. We're gonna have us a Monochrome Photo Week! Because I've got all this black & white photography! That I've been hoarding! Instead of attending to your needs! I am the best blogger ever.

Rafters! Your favorite!

These are rafters. Have I earned back your trust yet?

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Lest it Flutter Away

200 Bonus Points to anyone who noticed that the book has been in every shot of this series so far.

I made an origami bird! And then I made an origami cage, because ain't no folded punk gonna fly away from me.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

A Book Made of Paper? What a Concept!

EVERYBODY GET ON THE DANCE FLOOR IT'S A HORIZONTAL PARTY!

WHOA NOW CHECK OUT THIS NEW DANCE MOVE I CALL IT VERTICAL!

My Design 3D teacher isn't terribly fond of this one, but I had to use that parchment paper somehow.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Weave a Cardstock Web

Welcome to Design 3D! Where we cut up bits of paper and make them into things! On paper this class is a continuation of Design 2D, and the principles of gestalt and organization are to be carried over into a three-dimensional space. Right now we're basically just playing around with paper, though.

Here's a thing I made!

Pst. Hey you. Come a little closer...

That's it. A little closer. I have something I wanna tell you...

Wibbley wobbley woo.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Zoom in! Behance!

Line mustache! Technically pretty thin!
I've gone and set me up a Behance profile!

Basically I was looking for a fast and cheap way to put together a portfolio in a way that could be easily shared and I had heard some of my classmates and teachers recommend Behance. After I spent an hour setting up my profile and projects and several hours browsing the crazy selection of amazing design. It's pretty incredible. It's sort of like a Linkedin for artistic inspiration and a Pinterest for professionals.

There's going to be a lot of overlap between the content of Pixeldin and the content of my Behance account because both focus on my attempts at design. The main difference between the two is where I'll be using Pixeldin as sort of a clutter drawer for works in progress, school assignments, and news updates. I'm going to try and keep Behance looking more like a portfolio of selected works, so odds are if you're seeing it on my Behance, I've already uploaded six sketches of it to Pixeldin.

I typed out all this additional information just so I could get the text to wrap nicely around that big ol' linehead icon up there. And I added this final paragraph to balance things out a little bit. And then I broke the fourth wall to talk about text shapes. Just nine more words should finish things off nicely.