I’m working on some designs for a Christmas preformance for Blackbird this week. Here’s what I have so far.
October 5, 2009
July 14, 2009
My New Project
I love typography. I love the shapes of letters. I have been toying with the idea of making some kind of art project using typography when I came upon paper quilling. Cutting paper into strips and using them to create some interesting shapes.
Yula Brodskaya has some amazing work combining the two ideas. I thought I would give it a shot. It’s a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Here is the project so far.
If you want to see some of Yula’s work here are few sites: (She does such amazing work)
July 7, 2009
Fourth of July Camping
I went on a camping weekend for the Fourth of July. It was a blast. I haven’t seen some of these guys in ages. It was a great to see them again. The water was freezing though. Harry kept trying to push me in. I can’t rememeber the last time I has so much fun!
May 2, 2009
Updating My site
Hey! I’m adding little things here and there to my site. Check it out! I just learned how to make a J Query/JavaScript/CSS sideshow and added it to my site to showcase some of my work. It’s pretty awesome. I really like the simplicity. I’m not a coder by any stretch of the imagination so this was a triumph for me. I’m really glad it works! W00T! (oops I think I’m turning into a geek)
More updates to come so keep checking back!
April 23, 2009
A Fight
“The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.” Massimo V.
Very True. The ugliness can overwhelm you sense of beauty.
April 9, 2009
New ideas!
After re-reading some of my favorite poems I found myself wishing to illustrate one. Here is what I’ve come up with: (Click on the image for larger view)
I really like how it turned out. Drawn entirely with a poem. The Frame is the entire poem as well.
March 20, 2009
Inspiration of the Day
This open created by Trollback & Co, embraced the theme of Pop!Tech with organic elements like water growing whip-like arms and corrosion. This is a piece that takes three colors: white, black and red, and creates a truly stunning piece of art.
Finally we wrap with this truly beautiful piece of 3D typography that is the opener for the 25th anniversary of one of the most inspiring conferences in the world: TED.
March 16, 2009
A little something I read
There is an ordinary Jewish story….
A father was teaching his little son to be less afraid. To have more courage.
“Jump,” he said, “and I will catch you.”
And the little boy trusted him and the little boy jumped. And when his father caught him, he was filled with love.
And when his father didn’t, he was filled with something else…..something more……….
Life.
February 24, 2009
Christian Faur…I’m not worthy
I came across the work of artist Christian Faur who, among his other work in oil, encaustics, fabric and fiber, uses wax crayons as a medium in a completely different way.
Using hand cast encaustic crayons (that are still essentially similar to Crayola Crayons), Faur sets them into position, on end, in arrangements of the crayons themselves that, based on the value and hue of the individual crayons, forms an image when seen from a sufficient distance.
This still recaptures some of the innocence and playfulness of childhood crayons and other toys (remember “Lite Brite”?), but uses the crayons as a combination assemblage and image creation medium.
There are several experimental variations in which Faur explores the idea, many of them almost monochromatic except for sharp punctuations of brighter colors, others are full color like the image above, Experiment 5 (shown with a detail of the surface).
One of his other artistic experiments involve assigning colored crayons as letters in a “Color Aalphabet” and then using them to interpret literary passages, for instance from Hamlet. He goes into detail here about how the colors were chosen.
February 21, 2009
Tiny Art Director
The terrors of the Tiny Art Director. Illustrator Bill Zeman’s four-year-old daughter critiques (and usually rejects) his work.
Help support the Tiny Art Director’s college fund (She’ll be going to RISD in 2023)
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