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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Rainbow Bradbury

(I am so sorry for that title.)

I made a thing! More specifically, I made a series of things. Even more specifically, I made a series of three posters featuring inspirational quotes from science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. And look! They line up all fancy-like!

The goal was to give it a 70's futurist feeling, and to that end I took heavy inspirational draws from early Atari ads. It's simple, but I'm fond of the effect.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Soy Inks

As opposed to all those inks made from baby otter blood.

You wanted to know things about inks made from soy? Here's a poster that explains that. You can click on it to enlarge the image and read it better, if that's your thing.

I'm not sure why I made this.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Cannibal Animals

The American Royal is a livestock show, barbecue competition, and rodeo that takes place annually in Kansas City, Missouri.

I took their branding and rubbed cannibalism all over it. Because their barbecue is too good to resist is the idea.

Chicken-fed chicken for that double-chicken taste.

He was originally eating bacon, but barbecue bacon doesn't exist. Yet. Patent pending.

No it's not mad cow disease because there's no cow brain in the steak. But I admit that's a valid and terrifying comparison.

Flying high above the city, sauce and screams dripping from his beak.

That text is from a 1911 German newspaper. Time travel is included in the advertising budget.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

An Absurd Memory

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!

Thursday, May 8, 2014

The Roaring Five-Years-From-Now

This was past of an art history project, the assignment was to create an educational product that could be sold in a museum gift shop to teach people about a particular movement. Hence this art deco desk calendar. It's chock full of all kinds of lovely prints and fantastic information about the era, the art, and the legacy of art deco.

Don't be ridiculous you don't need to write things on calendars and if you do white pens exist.

Habanas Quality Gloves. For all your finger-coating needs.

Poster in this image is © Art.com and Steve Forney. Used non-commercially in an academic setting.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Bind Those Books!

A poster about books about books! On a blog!

Ah, finals week. When a young student's fancy turns to caffeine and final projects flutter through the air.

This is one of those projects, if you were wondering! It's a poster about the history of book binding. I made it a large book cover. Because I'm clever like that.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The All Hallows Project, Day 11

"Rise." Last poster! Saved the demon for last so I could close on something more iconic. It's been a fun 31 days, but I'm feeling a little poster'd out and I think it's starting to show.

And finally, on this, Halloween Eve. All Hallow's Eve Eve. I present to you the 31st image! This here's a Demon (English).

And that concludes the All Hallows Project! To date this is still one of the largest projects I've every undertaken, and I think a lot of really cool posters have come of it.

And hey! All posters can be purchased in a wide variety of sizes at this here link! So there's that!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The All Hallows Project, Day 10

"Friendly enemy." Super cutesy today. I mean, c'mon. Even the stuffed doll has a stuffed doll.

"Echoes of wings left closed." Na na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na... no, wait...

Deep in the Forgotten Woods, a demonic Click to Enlarge lies in wait...

Dragon (Slovak), Bat (Polish), Scarecrow (Gaelic).

Monday, October 28, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 9

"Wind, spirit, breeze, ghost, mind, shade (Hebrew has a crazy amount of ambiguity)." How is this different than a ghost, you ask? Well you see, shades are the ghosts of dead people. Obviously.

"Incubus and Succubus." Had to download a new Cryillic font for this, but it was worth it.

I Click to Enlarge you in your sleep...

Shade (Hebrew), Incubus/Succubus (Belerusian), Minotaur (Macedonain).

Sunday, October 27, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 8

"Man, Giant, Colossus." Finding a suitable language for these posters is a growing concern. Get it?

"Fly." So it seems in addition to running out of languages I'm running out of monsters. Nothing against The Fly (1958 or 1986), but Slenderman doesn't even have any movies, and he's more universal.

"Witch." It's been a while since we've had a good black & white grundgy print. So here's that.

Click to Enlarge or Suffer the Consequences...

Giant (Icelandic), Witch (Korean), The Fly (Bulgarian).

Aw yeah! Day 8, baby! And it's just gonna keep going right up until Halloween! We're getting more week out of this week-long series than the nature of the universe allows!

Saturday, October 26, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 7

"Man-Bear." This probably should've been a yeti given the Tibetan style, but tomayto tomahto.

"At a glance." This was going to be a cop-out poster since I had an appointment to get to this morning, but I ended up putting a bunch of detail into it and it turned out kinda nice looking. Whoops.

"Siren Song, Devour." I feel like my song writing skills have gotten a little rusty. This song doesn't play very well.

The Click to Enlarge is coming from inside the house!

Cyclops (Estonian), Siren (Croatian), Bigfoot (Tibetan).

Friday, October 25, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 6

"Visit Dohalice Village." Another sorta cutesy one today. Dohalice village is a town in the Czech Republic with a Medusa head on their flag, in case you were wondering.

"Rest in Peace." Contemplative abstract concept time! Yay!

"Slender!" Okay, so Slenderman's not as universal as most of these other monsters. But if I don't at least introduce the concept to you then my Halloween costume this year might not make much sense.

Click to Enlarge, Ye Who Enter Here

Medusa (Czech), Slenderman (Russian), Grim Reaper (Hindi)

Thursday, October 24, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 5

"Under the bed." Okay, so, technically the bogeyman doesn't have a canonical appearance. But this seems like something a reasonable person would be less than excited to see staring at them while they lie in bed.

"Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Civil Law, Doctor of Laws, Fellow of Royal Society, etcetera." Well this one was interesting. I wanted to keep the foreign language thing going, but there's really no more quintessentially English monster than the revered London doctor. So instead, the caption is from the first chapter of the "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," where Mr. Utterson is reading through Dr. Jekyll's post-nominal titles.

"Even death may die." Art Nouveau. Cthulhu. You're welcome. The blurb is from the Necronomicon passage appearing in The Call of Cthulhu, "That is not dead which can eternal lie. / And with strange aeons even death may die."

Stay Low, Keep Quiet, Click to Enlarge

Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (English?), Cthulhu (Creole), Bogeyman (Traditional Chinese).

If you're wondering why there's a question mark after the word English up there, now might be a good time to discover the mouse-over text.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 4

"Bandages." Man, check out those sexy right angles. Even the gradient's got it goin' on. On a related note, there is apparently no pixel font for Arabic characters. Please excuse any errors in my 8-bit approximation.

"Swamp Man." Because apparently "Black Lagoon" in Portuguese is "Black Lagoon." I never did trust proper nouns.

"Bloodsucker." Symbolism? Or do vampires just not show up on posters? Wooooo...

As she bent down to pick up the meat hook, the last words she uttered, in a panicked whisper, were "Click to Enlarge!"

Day 4! Today we have the Creature from the Black Lagoon (Portuguese), Vampire (Romanian), and Mummy (Arabic).

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 3

"The Wild Hunter." And that's how I developed respect for whoever it was that designed the illustrations for playing cards!

"Disappear." With a face like that, you have to be fashionable.

Click to Enlarge, Igor!

And here we have the Headless Horseman (German), Zombies (Japanese), and The Invisible Man (Norwegian).

Low-res pixel art sorta loses its impact when the image itself is tiny, doesn't it?

Monday, October 21, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 2

"Skeletal." This one took far longer than it should have, but I like it. There's something inherently skeletal about line drawings.

"Hydra." A little more cutesy today. Every kid on the block will want one! Which should be pretty easily accomplished, provided you can dodge those teeth and get a clean cut on the neck.

"Man is a Wolf to Man." Another exagerated self-shot, made all the more sinister by woodcut engraving. And wolf fangs. Those are sinister too, I guess.

I Was a Teenaged Click to Enlarge

The All Hallows Project continues with Hydra (Greek), Werewolf (Latin), and Skeleton (Spanish)!

As an aside, these were all done in PowerPoint, before I was introduced to Illustrator. It's incredible to look back on these, knowing what I was able to accomplish with such limitations.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

The All Hallows Project! Day 1

"This is a ghost that will lick you." Off to a really strong start with these captions.

"Grotesque Disarrangement." Lots of fun stuff about this picture. The face is my own, the gray splotches are pictures of various cuts and wounds, and the background is a low-brightness shot of open heart surgery. Sleep tight!

"The Climbing Spider." Some people claim spiders aren't proper monsters. To these people, I would like to point out the skyscraper this spider is climbing.

Click to Enlarge, IF YOU DARE!!!

Presenting for the first time on Pixeldin, the All Hallows Project! A series of 31 monster posters I put together in October of last year to celebrate the approach of Halloween.

Last year I had enough free time to make one poster per day. I planned to do the same thing this year, creating an entirely new poster on the same theme just to show how much my skills have improved. But seeing as it's the 20th and my assignments are just now starting to ease up enough to actually post the old series, I guess that's not happening.

First up! Ghost (Italian), Spider (Dutch), and Frankenstein's Monster (French)!

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Responsible Design

Luba Lukova is a wonderful graphic designer who makes wonderful posters and prints along the theme of social justice, and as part of a class assignment I've made this fake exhibition poster for her.

The illustration and type was all drawn by hand and arranged/recolored in Photoshop.

The illustration depicts a hand gripping a large pencil.

The type uses letter forms spaced closely together to form groupings known as words.

I'm learning so much here.