13 month cal.

well sailor jerry has inspired me to create my 13 month calender. his simple illustratioins pack so much techique... so my calender is going to be a tribute to him! my months images will be in sailor jerry inspired "flash" that represent the typeface for each month. will be doing all serif fonts and the 13th month will be the sailor jerry month with his original flash. I will also be trying to figure out how to make temporary tattoos to incorporate in the calender. everythign will be hand done since i hardly have ANY drawings in my porftolio.

i already started on two of the months illustrations and is a lot harder than i expected. so all future critiques are welcomed!

What/Who inspires me.

I am inspired by graphic designer blogs. I like to see what is going on in their minds, what is going on in their part of the world, and what interests them. Blogs are a major source of connecting to new artists or new techniques that ive never done/seen.

grain edit
swiss miss
spoon graphics

just to name a few...







I am inspired by artwork that I am not comfortable creating. I like simplicity and mixing hand drawn art or texture mixing it with vector like art.

matte stephens
jason munn

I am fascinated by silk screening. I would love to learn how to create imagery layer by layer, this may help me create the style of work I want to start doing.

I also like looking at interior design magazines and modern furniture. Those kind of structures get me thinking beyond the normal way of doing things.

Chiasso
design milk

Vintage posters are amazing to me, the way it was produced, the layout, the stupid propaganda. I love it

two word logo....

OK any suggestions thus far?

I cant remember if someone posted this already..

make my logo bigger!

top 50 design blogs in 2007

enjoy

egg press

they design letterpress and offset printed calendars

i know its late but...

Sushi Alphabet!

i will be scratching my texture idea because its too pixelated. if anyone *cough nathan* has any wood grain images and could send them my way i really would appreciate it!!!!

light box?

Well i also attempted my "light box" if you will, its more like my wall box... I have a hole in my wall where my tv is supposed to go and since i do not have a tv, Vwwah-la! a light box! Here are my first pictures from it. Like Chrissy, my first attempts have come out more yellow tinted. Anyone have any suggestions?

this is the direction i want to take my sushi alphabet. I found this look on this site from an interview

My Sushi Alphabet

Alright well i "scratched" my chewed gum idea... for now. And this is what i came up with. This is part 1, still more to come!

A Block of Type

this is a really great flickr site

Has a great collection of design

Design and Typography book list

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Eric Hews an artist i stumbled across

its down to the wire and i have no idea which one i want to do

im trying to be devils advocate

ok so i just came up with this idea. I figured since im kinda being negative with mccain, i may as well try with obama, just to be fair... SO i came up with this... i feel i need to add more to this but not sure exactly what?

last but not least

I think that maybe the lettering making up the text gives it a lighter feel and goes with the rest, i took all the stuff off and it looked to plain... i dono i deff like this one better

i think im done with this one

what do you guys think?

images i find interesting

McCain Poster

ok well this is the beginning. does anyone see the bush/mccain image

a business card that i like

this was another direction

ok so what do you think

i love this gallery

these guys always have great art shows going on! its a gallery that makes you feel like everyone can be involved. the stuff your stories in a sack is a cool project and the scavenger project!

i just recently went to the sketchbook project. very cool, and you could see the show from the internet!


arthousecoop.com

one of my posters?

these are a lot more time consuming that i expected!!