New Work (Sort of)

I've completely neglected to mention that my branding and web work for Great City Productions (an audio production facility here in New York) was finished as of a few weeks ago. The owner also happens to have mixed my band's album. He also does a lot of post production work for MTV and Comedy Central. Anyway, check out the link below:

Great City Productions

Thank You, Jessica Pearson

I officially love the Lifelong Friendship Society. Please, God, allow me to make things half as cool as this. Preferably as.

Wow.

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It's So Now

You may have thought that because of the holiday season I'd be taking it real easy. You'd be wrong, El Capitan. With days off from my day job (only one more week to go) I'm working harder than ever. Here's a few things I'm working on right now.

Below are some business cards my brother and I collaborated on for our father. He was fussy as they get. Enjoy:



The general branding was done by my bro, I was more the layout artist here. I think they came out rather nicely. The way the words and logo on the front form a kind of building-scape is nice.

Next, I'm working on a logo for toy manufacturing startup. These are some of the first attempts. I'm having a trouble striking a balance between the two halves of their name. They are, as you can see, Intellitoys. They are a technological toy company. Cool right? Well, yes and no. As a designer, my task is to marry the cold ones and zeros of modern computer-chip technology with the cuddly-wuddly feel of a much-loved teddy bear, all the while remembering that their target market is the new "Apple" generation of iPoders, iTuners, and PodCasters with babies. Whew. I've got one word for you. Sisyphus.





I am open to ANY AND ALL suggestions/insights.

{Typo}Graphic Content

Worked until 1:30 or so last night wrapping up the typography project previously mentioned. All in all it came out pretty well. I would have loved more time to spend on the details, but time and opportunity marches on I suppose. Here's a few of the better pages.

Poster-Eyes

In this segment children, we'll explore the lost (well, not so much lost as "expanding at a frightening rate and in enormous demand") art of Poster making. Specifically, the art of rock show posters. Perhaps we'll even occasionally dip into the world billboard and street posters. I'll be posting my favorites from other designers as well as a few of my feeble attempts for my band, The XYZ Affair (plug plug plug).

Below you will find a poster I just completed for The XYZ Affair's upcoming show at Union Hall in Brooklyn New York.


I like this poster. It's better than the last poster I made for two reasons: A) the drawing of the 1920s beach goers with the highways wrapping around their (aparrently enormous) bodies is just cool. B) It's colors buzz a lot more on this sucker thus attracting the unsuspecting eye. It's also got a better composition. Though, in retrospect, I'm not happy about where I put the venue and date info. It's offsetting (in a dismantling way) to the main sweep of text into the image that makes up the central portion. It was a bargain to try to lead the eye there since that was the second most important point. I really need to start making wire frames before setting out on a project.

(Typo)Graphic Content

Typography. I have only recently begun to fumble around with it. Of course that doesn't mean I've never designed with text.

To date my fumblings and preferences have all sprung from my opinions, rather uneducated ones. "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst is seems to be a standard in desktop typographic reference. I'm currently reading the web-translation at http://webtypography.net/intro/. Unraveling the mystery. It's not so mysterious.

I'm hoping soon to have a few projects that deal exclusively with type. It would do me some good.

I'm also working on rebuilding my portfolio website, The Visual Field. Complaints have been basically that the portfolio images are too small and I've just grown generally tired with it. Currently it's a very simple and elegant idea, but the execution was lacking in refinement. I'll do better, I swear.