Filed under: Illustration | Tags: CS4, Full Sail University, Illustration, Illustrator, Marcin Zeglinski, Photoshop, poduski, Skateboard Design
Skate deck design…there. It’s actually been quite refreshing to design in print again. After last month of almost nothing but setting type (a lot more fun than it actually sounds, and the fruits of which can be seen in my new branding) I was craving to make something immobile again. This month did not disappoint. Take this for what you will, I don’t really want to explain it as the point is to be somewhat ambiguous. Personally, I see clouds, but again, it’s up to you. It was really more about creating a serene mood than anything else. Ashley Nieves made an awesome one, though I doubt it’ll be on her blog. I really wish she’d start posting again. Sometime soon (hopefully), be ready for a revamp of this, a never before seen revamp of part of this, the completed version of this, and the long-in-the-works premiere of this (which actually led to this. Phew, do yourself a favor and Command click on those. Have you seen this by the way? It was a personal project, but I feel it didn’t get enough love. In fact, be sure to check out all of these. They’re all gold. Except for the ones that aren’t.
Filed under: Illustration | Tags: Etching, Full Sail University, Illustration, Marcin Zeglinski, Marina Terauds, Neil Gaiman, Photoshop, poduski, Sandman
Above is my final project for History of Visual Communications at Full Sail. I’ll include my hokey artist statement:”
“Dreams have always provided me with an abundance of ideas; nothing could be purer from a creative standpoint. We dream every night, multiple dreams in fact, but of all the dreams we have in our lives we remember only a handful, a speckle of sand on an astral dune. This is why I’m always grateful to remember one; it is a gift of memory. As dreams often are, this piece is also left ambiguous, the meaning left for the viewer to discern.”
In essence, I was reading the third volume of Sandman last summer and took a catnap. The image came to me in a dream so it’s been rattling around for a while, but the style was inspired very recently by Marina Terauds, an artist I saw at the Winter Park Art Festival who does amazing etchings. So there you go.
Also included is another version of the piece:
Filed under: Branding | Tags: Chicago, Illustration, Magazine, Second City, Text as Art
In Typography, we were commissioned to make a piece of art entirely out of text. I initially made a map of Chicagoland out of names (streets, towns, etc.) but it turned out a bit convoluted and busy. I did however, really like what I did for the label. For this, I wrote out ‘Chicago’ in Goudy Old Style with a really thin stroke to use as a guide. I then wrote out the alphabet in the same font and dragged, dropped, and manipulated the letters around the guide until the negative space itself looked like the word. Since this design was no longer part of the map, I tried to think of a product/publication that uses ‘Chicago’ and thought of Chicago Magazine. I’ll incorporate this into an cover mock-up as well as a table of contents. I can’t really see the actual publication using a logo this complex, but perhaps they could use it for a special, art-oriented issue. More to come next week.
