Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Roller Derby Program cover


probably one of my favorite pieces:

it's based on the Saul Bass poster for Vertigo.
. . . I think I did it justice in this homage. Saul Bass is definitely one of my favorite designers, so I try to be inspired by him as much as possible. I thought about using hand type similar to his on the original poster, but I ended up using Futura for consistency with the rest of the program. I think it worked out pretty well.

GO TO THE BOUT, IT'S SO MUCH FUN!!


Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Junior Review Poster/ music editing

1. here is my poster for junior review. It is the most foolish thing I have ever designed.
2. I finally figured out how to edit mp3s. I could use flash. . . or garageband, so I had to download Audacity. It's pretty easy to use so it's ok, but seriously Adobe, you need to make this easier!

Monday, March 15, 2010

All Tomorrow's Parties Inspiration

I'm no huge fan of Sagmeister, but really:
it's so good. I think about this design a lot. Usually I'm also not a huge fan of 90s grungy hand type either, but I can really get behind this one.


and this picture is just so cute that I want to look at it all the time. I'm glad it's in my little video.


Pavement's album covers were all so good too. Especially impressive because I really wish the 90s never existed.

Chicago Map Illustration


this printed so terribly! ugh.

I'm not very pleased with it. I hope the next project goes better!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Rubber City Rollergirls

preview of a cover illustration/design I did for the Rubber City Rollergirls:
If you want to see the whole thing I guess you have to go to the first bout of the season on March 13th at the John S Knight center.

ATP Project for Kinetic & Sequential Design

Originally, the event I was going to choose for the project was going to Pitchfork, but after looking at this year's Pitchfork line-up, I was really disappointed, so I went with ATP instead. Actually, after a bunch of research I learned that ATP is a really cool organization that strives to remain non-commercial by being curated by musical and visual artists instead of corporations. I think that's super, super cool and a really great idea, since there are certainly artists and groups that are willing! This year, the UK festivals are sponsored by Matt Groening and Pavement (the one band I would want to see at Pitchfork, actually)! I believe the New York ATP is sponsored by Iggy and the Stooges.

And besides all this, ATP (All Tomorrow's Parties) easily allows me to integrate one of my favorite bands of all time, The Velvet Underground. and maybe even Los Campesinos!
(screenshot of my design brief)