Tim Walker.

Final: Font

Final: Form and Communication

I decided to change my concept on the last night! Yay for letting go of ideas!

Type Face

G(i)raff(e) Paper....

Cover and Back cover of my book!

What do we think??

Quote: "2 is boring, 4 is confusing, 3 is just right."

Concept: Numbers causing emotional reaction. What is handled best in threes?

In this spread I'm trying to emphasis the text as opposed to the image which was amplified in some of my other compositions.  I think this works best because the idea is simple and the images have enough room to relate to each part of the quote.

Helen Lee: Inspiration

Last year we had a visiting artist named Helen Lee come and talk to us about glass blowing and how she went through a stream of processes and materials all inspiring one another, until she had a font created from glass.  I have thought about her a lot this year and am especially thinking of her now as we create our own typefaces.  I love the idea of using a certain medium and it's attributes to create a typeface.  It adds the personality of the material and can lead to many further experiements, such as Helen did when she used her font on glass business cards.  I think she's so cool.

Classy Type

I'm thinking about doing a serif typeface for our final project in Type II.  I think it's a good challenge because I'm usually inspired to do more modern, geometric typefaces.  I'm not sure exactly how I want to modernize the serif yet but I think it could be an interesting mix if I can make work.

I thought these package designs were really funny and incorporated the sophisticated serif (not Paul Smith), with the concept of cleaner, "perfect" fast food items.  It's not so much what I'm thinking about for my font but these labels alone are good examples of the cleanliness and sophisticated look of a serif font.

Design + Crew = my life, Spring 2010

 I love looking at photos of our races and the photographer at Knecht Cup two weeks ago took individual shots of the rowers.  Of course I look at each image like a designer, taking in the angles, contrast and what not. But it's really interesting to see the emotions caught in each image because I know how it feels to be rowing up to the start or in the sprint of a race, and I wonder whether the photographers know that they are capturing much more than just a race.  The thoughts that go through a rowers head in a race are either bazerk and rampaging, or the rower is basically blacked out; the coxswain does all the thinking for you and you just have to think about pushing and the pain.

We're in our last 2 weeks of the season and as much as I can't wait to be able to sleep in, stay out, calm down, etc., I know I'm going to miss being on the water so much.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations

For this project we used analog to create a grid for our digital posters.  I wanted to use the geometries of digital artwork, found in pixels, printing, vectors, etc.  so I focused on the hard angles from my grid and used a white layer to create a window to see one of the pieces in the exhibit and all of the information.

ACL Music Festival

My posta....yes, I did take advantage of the fact that my name is a state and I bolded it.

Process/Album.

I really enjoyed this project! It was a fun process even though I struggled a lot initially. Biggest I've ever printed? First time to the GCC on South College....love those ladies.

Inspiration of Avril

So many things have been delightful lately.  I think because I'm getting less sleep with waking up at unheard hours for crew practice that I am just constantly overtired.  This, though, is not always a bad thing.   That overtired giddiness that we've all experienced is my constant state of mind. It actually makes me appreciate lots of little things that I find in my daily routine.  Do I really want to end up napping? Or would I rather stay awake and find everything hilarious and ironic?

For this week I have found inspiration in these photographs I found of different weather conditions.  I like the "natural compositions" created by Mama Nature herself.

I once saw a storm that was just in the clouds and it is still one of my favorite nights of nature.  The lightening beams horizantally and you feel like you're watching something disasterous take place just in the sky.

WOOPAH

Inspirational Poster

Being an art student is fun.  Anyone think of any other words or quotes that could go with this??

Griddy

 I wanted to work in the name of my favorite album, Strawberry Jam, so I'm trying to act as if it's the concert debuting this album. I don't know what else to include because at this point, if you don't know the band and the album, this poster doesn't convey how Animal Collective sounds. Any ideas?

Better?

March Twenty-Sixth, Two-Thousand Ten

??what do I like today??

-LOVE the shirt. Crisp white and big black buttons. Plus a thick gold chain within the collar. Not to mention the blazer and pocket cloth. Love love love.

3D vs. 2D

Battle it out.

??Where can I get one??

hahaha go veet!

I love this photograph on the left.  The colors and her lipgloss and the frame. So cool.

I just love Grizzly Bear every day.

WHAT.

http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2010/03/24/blow-sneak-peak-photoshop-5/

like what? amazing.

Inspiration: Typography.

  Not only is it an awesome way to use letters and muted colors....but it's a stamp! In reality it's soap. I was googling "soap molds," "shaving soap," and "molding soap" for a drop cap....but came across this!  I think it's adorable and would be obsessed if this was in my bathroom.  In addition to making me clean, it would be awesome to use this as a stamp.  The rounded edges could allow you to roll the bar over and over to make stripes and change direction midway. Awesome.

Random Composition #1

Is it random enough??

could I be starting a collection?

http://www.culturelabel.com/Products.mvc/Details/1258/robot-3-camera

     After getting my Lomography Actionsampler I've been getting back into film photography.  It's pretty exciting to get the phone call from Camera's Etc. saying that my prints are ready.  (I almost got kicked out yesterday when I stood there for ten minutes while I looked through the roll and took up too much space at their counter.)  I've been thinking about the other types of cameras out there that have this "pictorialist" sense, where the photograph is more of an art in itself, than just any photograph.
     This camera is similar to the one I have but instead of having 4 frames it has 3.  I think this would be really interesting to use to sports or architecture because of the way information is distributed on the print.  I feel like the viewer looks at the two smaller images and can wonder what is happening on the rest of the field, or behind that building, where this camera then reveals more information in that third frame.

   

Progress: Please FEEDbaack!

 This is progress on my radial poster after it got chewed alive for (not) being a Christian band.  It's electronic dance music, i just don't know why the cross is their trademark.  ...but Do either of these titles work?

    

 Does it feel like Christian rock? or rock n' rave, nyc concert? 

InSPIRa-tion: Wearable Drop Cap

at the end of winter session one of my roommates came in after a very long day, screaming,

"BEST FRIENDS FORVER!"

as she walked up the stairwell.

Now, on a good day, someone is bound to say it.

OR?

Process: Dilational Poster

Any suggestions??

Thanks!

March 5th, 2010 - Inspiration

I want to make my poster for a group called Sigur Ros, who I've had an on-going love for throughout high school, until now.  One of  their albums is named ( ) and is made up of eight untitled tracks.  The first half has a lighter sound to contrast the last four songs that embody a more melancholy mood. The words are made of random, meaningless syllables, as to bring more focus to the music as a whole rather than the meaning of the content as words.

I want to work with the parenthesis somehow in my dilational poster....we'll see.

Flash Forward

Last weekend I went to Micheal's and for 1$ I bought coasters for my apartment.

"I child-proofed my house but they still get in."

(the image is backwards because Photo Booth is really great)

And then I found this! online just now....

CRAZY....it's the original, the real-live advertisement used to make fun of ourselves today! New definition of "going green" = using old advertisements, for new products; Reuse, Reduce, Recycle.

Final: Radial Composition Posters

JUSTICE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49esza4eiK4

....this is where it all started....

First Concert, Terminal 5, Front Row.

...to here!