Archive for the ‘design’ Category

Dawn Gardner

11.02.2011 · Posted in collage, design

Dawn Gard­ner, a recent graphic design grad­u­ate, uses dig­i­tal col­lage and a clean use of typog­ra­phy to com­pose images that have sev­eral dichotomies to them. Com­po­si­tions are both struc­tural yet play­ful. They are abstract in their arrange­ment, but com­prised of pho­tographs. There is both focus and diffusion. There is a cer­tain amount of ease with ...

Jennifer Hennesy

10.24.2011 · Posted in artist, design

Last week in my posts I explored quite a bit about stroke — fea­tur­ing artists that employed a con­fi­dent and direct stroke that echos through­out their work. Jen­nifer Hen­nesy, a graphic designer and artist has work in the same vein. Her projects, draw­ings, and even type­faces employ a line and shapes that evoke a care­free ...

Respublica Bookstore Reel and GIFs

09.23.2011 · Posted in design

Yes­ter­day, Anthony Zinonos tweeted about “smart GIFs”. Intrigued (as I tend to be drawn to the not-so-smart vari­ety), I clicked the link. I was not dis­ap­pointed. Made for the Respub­lica Book­store Reel, the GIFs them­selves are ani­ma­tions of posters, designed by Stas Leon­tev and ani­mated by Pavel Para­tov. Sim­ple, clean, and fluid, these small GIFs ...

8 bit Fashionary

08.31.2011 · Posted in design, fun, schooling

My grad­u­ate pro­gram (MFA Illus­tra­tion Prac­tice, MFA ILP for short!) has an exhi­bi­tion com­ing up next week. Every­one is hang­ing sev­eral pieces of work, all in vary­ing media and tech­niques. To really tie the show together, we are using QR codes (square bar codes you see on magazines,fliers, etc.), mak­ing the show inter­ac­tive as well. ...

Kate Prior

08.24.2011 · Posted in artist, design, illustration, illustrator

A few years ago, I tried my hand (lit­er­ally and fig­u­ra­tively) at hand let­ter­ing. My lack of atten­tion to detail was not con­ducive to suc­cess­fully and neatly illus­trat­ing text itself. Kate Prior, how­ever, has it right. Her inven­tive and cre­ative solu­tions to the stan­dard posters and sinage boast the text as a focal point, not ...

Oscar Pastarus

07.06.2011 · Posted in design, drawing

Right now, present to me a work that has rounded, amoeba-like shapes, and I’m in love. There is some­thing about them that is a bit car­toon­ish to me, a bit of a blast from the past with my child­hood. Insert­ing them into any project instantly adds a bit of humor and play­ful nature to it. Take ...

Moroccan Rugs

06.15.2011 · Posted in design

I was pok­ing around Kristina Klarin’s web­site (look at her awe­some jew­elry!) and blog, and stum­bled upon Moroc­can rugs that she had posted. Per­son­ally, I have always been enthralled with the process of rug cre­ation. Most often, it’s very time con­sum­ing and rather difficult! That is par­tially what draws me to these rugs. They are ...