Saturday, October 17, 2009

Thursday, October 15, 2009

IN REFERENCE TO...

...a discussion in school today:
"Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper?"

I thought it was a French guy and 300%, but my point stands, that is; If you give people the opportunity to appreciate good things, they will rise to the occasion. Don't underestimate your audience. Thankyouverymuch.

ALSO...

...here's the song Cheerleader by Grizzly Bear.

SHOPPING SPREE.

Okay, I authored a Photoshop Action. It will automatically take any image and separate the linework from the background onto separate layers, allowing you to color each independently of the other. Here's a little self portrait. You can see where I've colored some of the background green and some of the linework red.

Clicking here will download the file. Drop it into the following spot on your hard drive (you can really put it anywhere you will be able to find it later, but this is a good spot for it):
Macintosh HD> Applications> Adobe Photoshop CS3> Presets> Actions. (this path assumes you have a Mac)
Then, in Pshop, go to your Window menu and click on Actions. Find the little notepad icon in the top right of the new Actions window and click on it. Select "Load Actions" from the dropdown menu. Find the file where you downloaded it to a moment ago, click "open" to load, and you're all set. Open any image and "play" the Action.

Monday, October 12, 2009

"WOOD" BY THE DEAD PIRATES.

Illustrators McBess & Simon have a band. Their song "Wood" has the coolest video I've seen in ages. Plus the song kicks a lot of ass, too. HD and Full Screen dat.

ALEXEI ALEXEEV ANIMATIONS.

These guys just want to jam.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

ETC

- Little Dragon's "Blinking Pigs".
- Johnson Banks' "phonetikana".
- Font Bureau sues NBC for using trademarked typefaces.

OLD SCHOOL

A couple of analog collages depicting high school days. The first is a self portrait, the second captures for posterity an early morning vehicular mishap. I wasn't driving.

Friday, October 9, 2009

JUST SECONDS OLD

Some digi collage for ya.

Friday, October 2, 2009

THE NEXT LEVEL

Feel like a sandwich? This guy made a BLT from scratch. When I say "from scratch," I mean from effing SCRATCH. Check it out here, and dig his cool BLT flow chart here.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

MICHELUZZI

Check out the awesome work of Attilio Micheluzzi. Clicking here will take you to a spanish language blog with a full 19 page story featuring his character Johnny Focus.

clic para agrandar

Friday, September 25, 2009

GLEANING THE CUBE



An unfolded cube built for an infographics project.
Giant fucking typo. Click dat.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

MORPH THING.

In the previous post there is a sketchbook page with studies for this project:


click4enlargeness.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY

Well, here's a bunch of stuff from my school sketchbook.
A couple of self-portraits:






This was an exercise where we had to create some random shapes, then make them into a character:


















A study of JessB:

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Friday, August 21, 2009