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Over the weekend, I cut metal with fire, then w a laser. Cool man.

Getting Better at Photoshop

It was beautiful outside, and I only spent 1 hour outside, and it was spent taking pictures. Then I spent a few hours editing the pictures, and when I was done, it wasn't nice out anymore. It was worth it though, because I made some cool signs and improved my photoshop skills.

I got a little something out

I'm still unsure about the composition here. I think I need to find a color for the type that will read on top of the picture, and maybe edit the picture more.

I Have Designer's Block

There's good news and there's bad news

Bad news

I spent $75.00 on an army man costume and a very realistic toy gun. I then spent 5.5 hours editing pictures of myself in the costume, to make it look like a real soldier. It took so long to edit the pictures because I was combining three images into one. Each of the four images contains elements from the following:

1. The images from the original poster.

2. New pictures of me in a costume holding a gun.

3. Faces from various personal photos of mine.

**note RE the top right image, the costume I wore for that was a towel on my head and a sheet around my body, and some pajama pants that were too short for me.

The Faces

Top left: My friend Leo's face

Bottom right: My face

Bottom left: A face I drew using illustrator

Top right: A combination with my grandmother's face and my face, lol

Good news

My rally poster from GRD 3000 looks much better from a graphic standpoint. Also, with careful folding, I may be able to return the costume. =^)

Original:

New and Improved:

Newer and more improved:

(yes or no on the textured background? I vote yes)

Wouldn't it be nice

Wouldn't it be nice if we could really turn this into an actual 12 x 18 reflective aluminum street sign?

Maybe I will.

Yeah, but no.

Skate Escape Ads: I am happy with the funny idea using the icon and societal messages, like don't drink and drive, etc. I think that will make a great series, but these actual designs are not at all of what the final products will look like- they're more like digital sketches just to get me started.

Check me out

Teaser Posters Phase I

Series I:

Series II

They would all look like this but with different angles in the shadows.

One or the other

Below: Two sets of logos, which set do I go with?

One color?

Two colors?

Out with the Old, in with the New

The newly redesigned book cover promotes readability and true devotion to the design style of David Carson. I hope he would appreciate my first attempt, and my second (and much more successful) attempt at his design style.

Out with the old...

...and in with the new

The g Campaign

I love the mark, but what about the words? Should they be;

Underneath?

On top?

Inside?

A Combo?

Or none?

I'm married and I have a kid

I got married to my idea of the street signs, and we are not getting divorced because I love it. Marriage is about compromise though, so that is why I am getting rid of the traditional street sign colors on my business cards. I am now depending solely on the pattern to be recognizable as a street sign. For my ads though, I will bring back the original street sign colors and do a series of street sign advertisements.

In other news, this morning I adopted a child, her name is EPSON Stylus 1400, she's beautiful. I think we are going to get along great!

The new card colors are below.

Faux Final Stationery Package

Envelope Front

Envelope Back

Letterhead

Business Card

Letter Writing @ Skate Escape

GW Viral Campaign

The Global Objects Campaign

Live Trace helped me add great texture to these objects, giving them a very illustrated look.

Because this campaign is one based off of type, I will not be using these for the final piece, but I was too excited about the idea to not illustrate it on the computer.

Final Skate Escape Logo...adjusted

At first glance, it probably looks the same, but shown below are the adjustments that were made. These were necessary changes, mainly for scalability reasons.

Compare the old and the new:

Skate Escape Business Cards

Side One

Street Sign Imitations

Diamond Shaped Cards

Standard Business Card Shape and Size

Side Two

Information

Diamond Shaped Card:

The diamond shaped cards would be the most effective in imitating the street signs, these cards would be great in metal.