New Wine Client

The W Hotel & Residences is opening in downtown Atlanta in January 2009. The renowned restaurant BLT Steak will be opening as part of the W as well. This is the first W that offers condominium living along with their hotel rooms. To celebrate the opening of this special building, in the up and coming downtown area, I will design a special edition of the restaurant's house red wine. The existing package can see seen below.

Don't Stress

I thought this was funny. I don't know who the artist is though, i got this photo in an e-mail. I have about 7 more of these kind of photos, let me know and I can e-mail them to you, they're good!

Fo your viewing pleasure

2 Buck Chuck Logo

For reference, here is the Trader Joe's logo. I wonder if I will be able to screen print on burlap, do I mix my own colors? I've never done this before...

Wine Bottles

Affordablle wine bottles here, most are sold in cases of 12, so think about teaming up and splitting the cost unless you want 12 bottles. I'm using the clear or green 750 ml bottle on top, so let me know if you want to use one of those too.

Baskervillains: 2011 Calendar

Check out the complete version of Baskervillains here!

Candidates: Wine Bottle Redesign

Animated Type in the Mainstream

2 ma GState Peeps

Mac Users, 

Swallow that mac pride and log onto windows one more time to setup your e-mail redirecting (using Internet Explorer 6 or 7) See below.

How do I Redirect my PantherMail to another e-mail address?

• Go to https://www.student.gsu.edu
• Click Launch PantherMail
• Click Sign in.
• Sign in using your student email address and password.
• Click on Inbox
• Click Options (Note: If you are using Internet Explorer 6 skip the next step.)
• Click Organize
• Click Inbox Rules (Note: In Internet Explorer 6 it will only say Rules)
• Click New Rule
• Create a New Rule for Arriving Messages
  • Clicking this option opens a new rule window without any of the criteria or actions for your new rule selected. Use the new rule window to select and define the criteria and actions for your rule. Enter a name in the Name box to name the rule. Click Save to save the rule or Cancel to cancel the rule without saving.
• A new Rule Description panel will open
• Click Forward or redirect and then choose Redirect the Message to people or distribution lists
• In the left panel, now click people or distribution lists
•  An Address Book panel will open. At the bottom, in the To field, type the address you wish to have your mail redirected to.
• Click OK
• Click Save

Go to Microsoft for full details on creating and managing rules at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchangelabshelp/bb899620.aspx.

Inspirational Designers Part II

Bobby Velon

Jessica Reiling

David Carson

Sabatino Andreoni

IN PROGRESS: Baskervillians, a 13-Month Calendar

Month: May

Special Day: Mother's Day

Baskervillian: Joan Crawford

Month: June

Special Day: Father's Day

Baskervillain: Dr. Evil

Month: March

Special Day: St. Patrick's Day

Baskervillain: Lowdown Leprechaun

Month: February

Special Day: St. Valentine's Day

Baskervillain: Corrupt Cupid

Baskervillains

For the 13 month calendar I am creating for 2010-2011, I was inspired by John's blog name (baskervillain.blogspot.com) to create villains for each month, using the Baskerville typeface.

For January, I'm working on the killer snowman:

and March's evil leprechaun:

Inspirational Designer Part I

This isn't my real post for inspirational designers. but trust me, take a laptop outside and design out there, if you don't have a laptop, at least sketch out there. The fresh breeze and the warm sun is inspiration for great, lively work.

Lab Fees to CS4?

Does the university automatically upgrade to the latest versions of software? if not, maybe we can push them to buy CS4 by putting our lab fees towards the upgrade purchase. Although CS4 is not out yet, it will be here soon since they are announcing it and giving details about all the new features; like Illustrator's multiple art boards, Photoshop's object painting, or Flash's motion presets.

Check it out for yourself to see many more new features for all the programs.

Cleaning Apartment: An Illustrative Typeface

Spilled Milk: An Illustrative Typepface

Don't cry over spilled milk...

...create letters from it! Here's a little preview of what I'm working on as an illustrative alphabet. This is the one time you don't have to use a coaster.

Mark Jenkins' Scotch Tape Art

This is good stuff, please note, not my photographs, check out the website below for more.

Mark Jenkins Official Site

Designer's Block?

Find random inspiration

A Block of Type @ GSU

Lade Logos

I was given two random words from a pile, "radial" and "outgoing/social." I then created sketches from those words.

After the sketches were complete, I was given a few more parameters:

USE COLOR:    PMS 416 + one compliment

USE COPY:       Lade

With that, I began creating logos.

This is what I came up with so far

1st Round of Photos

I was cleaning up after trimming my presidential type portraits, when I realized that as I was moving the scraps of paper around, I was creating letter forms, so I went to it.

With some editing, I think this could turn into a neat little typeface. We'll see where I can take it.

Typographical Presidential Posters

Dr Seuss for President Art Exhibition

Michelle sent this to me, thought it was interesting. I am definitely going to attend considering the political project I am working on now.

Which Way to Go? Now I Know!

After talking with Mike and Zach, and looking back at the comparison I made between McCain and The Grinch, I finally got my idea and ran with it. Take a look at the sketches below, and you will have a good idea as to where the final pieces will end up.

Shout-out to Seuss!

First, I learned how to draw Cat in the Hat

Then I perfected my Obama caricature by taking different elements from numerous sketches

Then I traced over with typography.

Finally, I put my existing McCain caricature onto the grinch body.

Up next is putting it all into he computer and trying my best to achieve a successful spin on Dr, Suess' books for a political statement. Graphic Design is so fun.