awesome paper art by Megan Brain

one day, when i wasn't looking at the internet during class, i stumbled across this artist's blog and work. you should check Megan Brain's site

kill yr babies

on monday night, i saw Iconologic's Matt Rollens and Elise Thomason give a presentation on design and their work for the Torino Olympics hosted by SCAD's AIGA student group. Once i got over how beautiful the bathrooms were (framed artwork with labels!), i focused on the lecture.

to design for the Games, they had six years, but had to incorporate another person's logo. they showed some initial ideas and sketchbook images.

Matt talked about the design process in general, the following notes are from his speech:

A. Find a story
1. Dump preconcepti0ns
2. Ask dumb questions and listen closely to answers
3. Be naive
4. Collect every piece of evidence
5. Obsessively categorize, chart, list and display the evidence
--just hang out and get some coffee
6. What's the story?
7. Write the story in words.
8. ask, "What's the point of the story?"
9. Make a koan* of your answer.
10. Put all this on paper and call it the "Creative Brief"

B. Design the story
1. Spout ideas, judge them later
2. Steal, cross-polinate and sleep around.
--turn bad ideas into genius
3. Coddle your ideas like beautiful, perfect babies.
4. Kill your babies and try again.
5. There are infinite options and a lot of them suck
6. Don't avoid the obvious; make it new.
7. Think symbolically, metaphorically, and historically.
8. Don't think at all.
9. Say it aloud.
10. Tell the truth.

C. Tell the story
1. It doesn't have to be linear or complete/consistant
2. Stories have to be interesting--they ask you to make connections to the core idea.
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*(koan: a paradox to be meditated upon that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason and to force them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment
--merriam-webster.com)

final ripped

writing, washing, and writing on my arm for a while last night, but i think it turned out well. rather unlike things i've done before, but it feels rock and roll.

other two poster ideas

i did this bright one early on but may not use it after all.




another one with the tiger stripes:

lace redone

i took out some of the unnecessary decoration. i think it looks better now.

ripped!

after seeing Tiger! Tiger! last night, I knew I had to do at least one poster with fishnets. I think the classy,sparkly type creates a nice touch.

another neat poster

still looking around at some neat posters. this guy, steve sleeve (what a slick name) designed this for garbage. a classmate told me this site where they have great stuff gigposters.com>

tigers and old lace

one of the poster designs for Tiger! Tiger!
i swear, i go to bed repeating that name over and again.

type of game

here's my favorite three of the in-class assignment. we're trying to make these sayings come alive with typography.



if you look super close, "picture" is made up of many many "words"

cool posters by todd slater

been looking at concert posters a lot lately and i love some of these by todd slater.
you can check him out at his website

velcom to my vorld

in the past few years, i've upgraded from working on the floor to having lots of luxurious space. the spare bedroom serves as my studio, walls painted with a version of color that disney calls "enchantment"






i also hop back and forth between the computer and the dining room table. they're right next to each other, so i can sketch and scan, or just plan out my designs shorthand.

self-portrait

it was real fun making this self-portrait, too bad i couldn't eat it afterwards. nothing like good sweet potato pie.