1 of 4 finals in my Typography class. “Design your own font!” The professor says. &So, I did.
The font is called “Velours.” It was inspired by my good friend Jack’s work &I’m currently working on a logo for her web comic that’s going around.
I have like 10 more letters to do &I’m ready to slam my head against the table.
As fun as I’m having with this, I can’t wait for it to be over. Haha!
Wow, I finally get to update! This is a part assignment from my Design 1 class. We had to take an African animal and simplify it for a logo.
I started off with a few roughs of basic animals: giraffe, elephant, rhino, hare, even a chicken. Being the logos had to be “simple” my sketches turned out more cute than serious compared to my classmates.
After getting it approved, I vectorized my sketch of the elephant &Went through probably 10+ different variations of typography before settling with this one. I also had my try with a color sheet &Will have to post that another time.
People have wondered why I chose the word “Oliphant” instead of “Elephant” &It’s because of my Lord of the Rings addiction. &Also too, I love how it’s said with the accent. It’s a fun, friendly and unique word. Especially for a publishing company, I thought.
Finally! Work not from Typography!
This was a Digital Imaging assignment. I was to digitally paint a portrait inspired by a favorite artist. I took my two loves and combined them in this painting of the TARDIS arriving/departing. I had a lot of fun with this and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I used Photosop &My Wacom tablet.
The front flyer design I did for the Los Muerto’s art gallery event. The backside still has to be done, but hey…Haha! If you’re in the LA area, come down &Check us out! My art along with other amazing artists will be up in the gallery.
My type anatomy poster I had to do for Typography. We were given a list of terms and told to make an educational poster out of it. I went through maybe 10 roughs before I settled on this. I’m really happy with how it turned out. I like how it gives off the “Chemistry” vibe.
Here are your answers from last nights mini Quiz!
Anything? Anything at all?
Posted this little quiz on my main blog, can you figure it out?
A movie poster I did for Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I am in LOVE with this game. More than you know. It’s so good.
Behind the Design
Rhythm Natives || Make Up Your Mind
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Single cover design I did for the Rhythm Natives’ single “Make Up Your Mind.” I used a textured stock and added transparent squares and rectangles. I had them overlap and aligned, giving off that patchy, worn look.
The reasoning behind the design elements were to convey the message of indecisiveness &Hidden conflict within the song. The rusting and texture of the background symbolizes the eroding and fading relationships mentioned in the song. The transparent shapes represent one of two things: 1) The failed attempts at hiding, or covering up the stains of the rust/textures, or 2) The various inner thoughts &Conflicts that overlap each other causing the image to look somewhat chaotic.
The color scheme is light and easy on the eyes, but faded to show that these colors were once bright and vibrant. Rather than going with a large bold font, I used a thin font to be consistent the transparencies and the faded colors. I purposely kerned the letters farther apart to allude to the song (haha!).
More typography stuff! This time we played around with adding French curves to letters &Playing with the Appearance Pallet. &I just realized, but I used Q again. It’s okay, Q needs more love.
IT’S FINISHED!
Here are my compositions for my letterpress assignment for Typography (again). I only needed four, so the first one is a personal one. Here we played with color and transparency &Tried to make something similar to what a letterpress would do.
We have to print one out for critique but I’m not really sure which one i want to print…
Just a simple banner I did for fuckyeahtohoshinki. I felt like showing it off as well as promoting their site. They run an amazing blog, so go check ‘em out.
My first typography project EVER &It was to make a collage expressing any emotion using only type (Feel free to interpret it anyway you want, haha!). At first I didn’t think I’d like the project, but in the end I was pretty satisfied.
I was amazed at how bad the kerning was in some of the typography in the magazine I was using. It was horrible.
I started this project around….9? &Finished around 12:50. I’m never like this with clients but with homework, procrastination is fun &I like working under pressure. This isn’t due till Thursday anyway…
After the form &Counterform assignment we were to take the composition we made and break them up into a new composition, this time utilizing colors but mostly transparency.
These are just two compositions I made so far. These were made in Illustrator (CS5) &Watermarked/Resized in Photoshop (CS5).
Form &Counterform exercise we had to do for Typography. We had to remove as much of the letter as we could and focus more on the shapes that were being made with the negative and positive space. This was all done in Illustrator (CS5).
I ended up using only the letter Q for some reason…
