One of my 4 Caribbean flags of the island, should stand out against blurry b + w.
Last minute different direction for my identity project. Everything was getting very gloomy and (lamely on trend) with my grainy black and whites. I’m adding in some colourful carribean flags into the mix that can be found in different applications. Although they stand out more than the photos, they’re definitely secondary. Might make some of them into stickers too.
When I’m making an issue, I’ll use Illustrator to knock up little spot illustrations, custom titles, holding shapes, borders and other stuff like that. Photoshop is mainly used for prepping all photos that I source for print, making them a little tastier, and occasionally dropping in some vector type into a photo (eg. a killer whale jumping out of the letter A). In Design is like the big wok you through everything together in, and desperatly try and make a decent meal out of the ingredients. tip: if type is any bigger than 50 pt on a page, create outlines and kern it manually, most fonts are retarded when it comes to spacing, and you’ll notice the difference.
So this is my ‘scratchpad’ so far for issue 5, pretty messy but you get the idea.
Little sneaky peek at a still life I shot on the weekend, will be used for the back of an A4 stationary item that will double as a mailer.
So looks like I’m doing a logo based on 1980’s thriller/crime novel still lifes… Yeah this time I may have gone insane. I usually have one image that I’ll base a project on and always refer back to as an aesthetic (like your contention in an essay) and this time it’s Len Deighton’s Game Set Match trilogy.
Finished the shoot for a poster on Australian icons for my studio class. Richard Pratt, the cardboard king, was my subject. I created a stencil, got it lazer cut by Vito in the architecture building, sprayed it onto cardboard and literally shredded him to pieces. The title of the fictional exhibition will be called ‘Shred Everything: The Richard Pratt Story’. So you get the pun.
90’s still life for the mag.
Building my first second iso-typeface (just making a word not the whole alphabet), for an article about lego. Got a nice photo for it as well. I’ve been inspired by a few art-directors recently: (I watched Art & Copy) and also Ben Purvis. The latter guy was on board the last few years at Seattle Met and before that Las Vegas Weekly. I think it’s cool when art directors go nuts on free city mags, which I’ve found a lot of the time (Oregan, San Fran, Japan) have been better than 50% of commercial magazines.
Anyway, I’m really trying to do as much original stuff as I can-literally make art that relates directly to the story.
Working on a logo project that needs to include a 30 second animation. It’s tricky, but Photoshop extended has a pretty decent animation feature (well you can change opacity and move objects). My organisation is for relegious tolerance and acceptance, so im animating the various relegious logos in the stars.
