hugs and slugs

Typographic Expolorers

2009-12-04T11:01:00.000-08:00

MAGAZINE!

2009-12-04T08:23:00.001-08:00

Art school for a Day

2009-10-11T16:59:00.001-07:00

HTML Edit

2009-10-06T15:32:00.000-07:00

We've been learning how to edit our HTML layouts by Matthew Petterson. From this I added a background image, changed the type, and made my header transparent. In the background, I created this gray texture. I then linked the html to my flickr page-where the images originates. I then made it fixed so when you scroll it doesn't move. Then I created my own font stacks because using Trebuchet and Georgia seemed too default. I went in and changed all the body and link text to the font Bryant-from the process Type Foundry-as well as adding it to my font stacks. I also made my header image 70% transparent to the background.

Tableau

2009-09-12T19:57:00.000-07:00

since being back at the computer designing i've been meaning to take a break and do some photography. Here's my latest tableau

Bye bye bear island

2009-08-07T19:26:00.000-07:00

Returning soon

2009-07-21T08:53:00.000-07:00

My Junior year at the College of Design is rapidly approaching, and I can't wait to return to Raleigh. This Summer has been a big letdown, and I can't wait to get back to my friends and studio.

Photography

2009-07-15T13:47:00.000-07:00

Little sister portraits.

2009-07-11T05:10:00.000-07:00

So this summer I get bummed whenever I sign onto my social network sites. Am I the only not traveling to exotic places this Summer? Am I the only person working my ass off at my (two) jobs? So I've decided to appreciate where I am this Summer, my exotic Summer in the small town of Hubert, NC.

Hey Eric!

2009-06-02T09:16:00.001-07:00

Cover Re-Design

2009-05-14T10:15:00.000-07:00

Game Design

2009-05-14T09:58:00.000-07:00

Nutrition trivia board game with Tactile graphics.

FISH

2009-05-02T18:03:00.000-07:00

Me and some studio mates worked on a fish installation for the Fish Market Gallery's scale show!

Fatty Acid Display Face

2009-04-27T15:56:00.000-07:00

Static Flux

2009-04-22T17:38:00.000-07:00

STUDIO COLLECTIVE

2009-04-04T08:40:00.000-07:00

My desk setup

Crunch Week

2009-03-30T22:08:00.000-07:00

Clouds, rainbows, and naturally curly hair

2009-03-29T20:56:00.000-07:00

Studio Collective Design

2009-03-25T17:40:00.000-07:00

2009-03-15T16:06:00.000-07:00

Harmen

2009-03-14T17:06:00.000-07:00

Harmen Liemburg came to NCSU yesterday, his work was really inspiring. I talked to him for a while and he made me motivated to screen print again-so there's that in the works!

Also I took some Polaroids downtown, finally.

Book in the works

2009-03-04T16:58:00.000-08:00

Hey Megz

2009-03-01T18:56:00.000-08:00

How I spent my Spring Break

2009-03-01T18:47:00.001-08:00

A break from the computer over spring break has reminded me what I can do with my hands

Book Cover

2009-02-24T07:44:00.001-08:00

Grids will tear me apart

2009-02-22T11:58:00.000-08:00

Working on my modern book within a grid system

Paul Friedrich

2009-02-22T10:34:00.000-08:00

Making a movie of Paul Friedrich has been a lot of fun. He's a fun guy to talk to and has a lot of passion for cartoons

SCREEN PRINT!

2009-02-15T20:15:00.001-08:00

Me and justin collaborated on an open call poster for this month's Fish Market.

Will

2009-02-09T20:13:00.000-08:00

Today was Final crit day for our event posters and installation plans.

Will decided to whip out his "crit" shirt.

Letterpress fun

2008-12-14T19:47:00.000-08:00

For Typgography, we got into teams of 4 and each team printed a page for out Typography book. "These are images not words," we had the "these" page. This project demanded us to get together with other teams to work out how we could press on some of the same pages. And also we had to think about spreads and how the book was going to be made.

Screen-print fun

2008-12-14T19:42:00.000-08:00

So for some Christmas presents I cut up some vintage (and really cheesy) shirts. Then I screen printed some fun line designs onto it and wala! awesome scarfs

Art*ery Logo

2008-12-14T19:26:00.000-08:00

Art*ery's mission is to better not only N.C. State but also Raleigh's art community. This logo is meant to represent Raleigh's city skyline, ending with the Art*ery asterisk. The twisting line also are mean to represent Art*ery's goal to establish a network among art-interested students and members of the Raleigh community.

Experience Book

2008-12-04T18:09:00.000-08:00

Our last project of the semester was to make/write a book about an experience with your object. My book was about getting a View-Master for the Christmas I found out Santa Claus wasn't real. This was an awesome project and I'm really excited about how it turned out. I really played on the whole "transparency" idea with the View-master, and blew up an old reel slip for the book. Even though this semester was stressful, i'm already excited and ready for the next.

Final Type Book

2008-12-03T08:40:00.001-08:00

Book for Typography, essay on the calculator and abacus

Timeline

2008-11-30T21:03:00.001-08:00

This is my View-Master timeline, with a "sub-problem" on the side, visually showing how stereo-photographs are seen 3D by the brain's ability of depth perception.

2008-11-29T16:09:00.001-08:00

Smithsonian poster 2 re-done to better communicate how visuals make connections of past experiences. (Plus I found this old brain illustration that was too irresistible to resist.)

Gill Sans Bold

2008-11-28T19:39:00.001-08:00

Composition of Gill Sans Bold using it's glyphs

2008-11-17T08:45:00.000-08:00

Final Historizin project, digital collage of historical event (moon landing.)

Experience book in the making

2008-11-13T18:23:00.001-08:00

New Idea for Experience book, to be continued..

Worst week ever

2008-11-03T10:28:00.000-08:00

This week was a really rough and frustrating week. I had trouble grasping an idea for my second Smithsonian poster that would incorporate a new idea that tied into my original object (toy, view-master). First, I had the idea of creating a poster that would represent people's idea of "what is vintage?" I first tried to define vintage, but then realize I couldn't because it was so much more than a standard definition. So I asked around what vintage meant to different people.

Final: Making Connections through Images Poster for the Smithsonian

Type One

2008-10-28T14:15:00.001-07:00

So far, I have really enjoyed my first Semester of Typography. We just completed our 7th project, which has been my favorite so far. We were assigned to find an article on Graphic Design and find quotes from the article the represent them typographically. One had to be an "AZIF" (phrase coined by Denise Gonzalez) which means the word should represent what it is saying. The other poster had to be more a more traditional type poster.

"AZIF"

"Or Not"

Another project that I enjoyed doing was finding examples of typography in the world and evaluating their quality into "good schooled or bad schooled type" or "good unschooled or bad unschooled type." I took a trip to Philly to visit my best friend and got some really good examples. Ever since this project I am constantly observing and evaluating all the typography around me. Here are some of my favorite examples:

"Good schooled"

"Bad unschooled"

2008-10-24T12:15:00.000-07:00

So this is what I have been doing in studio so far. We were assigned an object in the beginning of the year, I was assigned the View-Master toy. First, we did Concept maps relating our object to other systems in the world

now, we are making exhibition posters for The Smithsonian

Sophomore Year Thus Far..

2008-10-22T17:51:00.000-07:00

So Sophomore year has begun and is already halfway through the fall semester. This is the first semester I've had the triad Graphic Design classes and I must say I love it so far.

Imaging Projects:

Tableau- "Same weekend, same story"

A photograph showing a story through images

Rebus: "Shake your moneymaker"

Common phrase represented through images only

Adbuster: Old and Senile

Manipulating images in a Magazine Ad to manipulate meaning

GD Fundmantals

2008-02-29T13:12:00.001-08:00

Today was the last day of Graphic Design Fundamentals-boohoo.

Logan was brave enough to be the one to hang up our precious linocuts

House Show Photography

2008-02-17T19:55:00.000-08:00

Some photography I took this weekend at Ashe House.

Brother Reade The Love Language

The Love Language and my photography can be found at www.myspace.com/thelovelanguage

PROJECT COMPLETE!

2008-02-03T21:00:00.000-08:00

Tonight me and Meghan OB completed our card game, packaging and all, and made two. On Friday we created our own bitmap type and uploaded it to be a real font! Then, we used our own font to type our more detailed and clear directions for our accordion instructions. Then, we made a new set of cards and packaging, and ended up with this!

Just some Franz..hanging owt

The backs with our own Typeface

Me with my frand

So the final crit is in the morning, wish Snatch luck! Later days

Modern Dog

2008-02-02T14:32:00.000-08:00

I was looking at Modern Dog Design Company's website and I really like what they do.
Definitely will be checking them out next week in Burns!

Packaging numero dos!

2008-01-29T21:59:00.001-08:00

So me and Meghan OB finished our packaing tonight! We went throught a couple phases.
Phase one:

Too pixelated, not clear and precise, didn't print the right size!
Then we perfected our packing, and added the snatch man's arms and legs. We also perfected our instructions, and decided not to make the arms and legs the objects to snatch. We decided that the packaging would become worn fast when pulling his arms in and out. But all in all I'm happy about our packaging, and am excited/anxious about our crit in the morning! Goodnight all.

Packaging

2008-01-29T08:50:00.001-08:00

So me and Meghan OB have been putting together some designs for our Snatch packaging, and ultimately came up with this: The packaging is made to sit on the store shelves like shown in the first picture. The Snatch man's arms and legs are going to be the objects players have to snatch when they get a matching set. This means we have to go back once again and fix our accordion fold instructions. We've been playing around with FontLab trying to figure out how to upload our bitmap type so we can incorporate our own type face for our instructions, so hopefully we can figure it out by the end of the day. We have to perfect our packaging and instructions by tomorrow, so it's gonna be a late night!

Photography

2008-01-22T19:37:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple shots I took of sum mah franz goofing off during my 2nd Snatch photo shoot.
They obviously loved playing Snatch!

Snatch Storyboard Complete

2008-01-22T19:27:00.000-08:00

Tonight me and Megan OB completed our accordion fold storyboard to describe the rules of our game using annotated photography.

SNATCH STORY BOARD

2008-01-22T16:23:00.000-08:00

Photo-lab

2008-01-18T08:12:00.000-08:00

Today we went down to the photo-lab and took some shots of our game in action. Then we edited them in the cpu lab.

Snatch!

2008-01-17T20:43:00.000-08:00

Today me and Megan OB created a name for our game, "Snatch." We created designs for the front of every card:

Here are some examples of our Bitmap Type for the game:

mistakes, lessons learned.

2008-01-16T21:02:00.000-08:00

So me and Megan OB were experimenting with our bitmap type and modular and we came up with this: But we were not being awesome, we were breaking the rules. Decisions made for modular type are rule-based and systematic. The bitmap type is a form of modular type in that it is made up of the same size square repeated. Out letter does not follow a rule-based system. But hey, were learning! Thanks AH.

"spoons"

2008-01-16T17:41:00.000-08:00

Today in Studio me and Megan brainstormed some ideas for our game. What we ultimately came up with is a game like the card game spoons. It'll be sweet just you wait. Click on the image for a bigger view.

Majuscule Bitmap Type Complete!

2008-01-13T14:18:00.000-08:00

Yes! Finally finished majuscule bitmap type. Fun times.
Schwing!

52+ Progress

2008-01-12T11:51:00.000-08:00

So I've completed my minuscule bitmap type for my 52+ assignment.
Here 'tis.

52+ Phase phase uno!

2008-01-11T07:02:00.000-08:00

First day of GD102 we made some bitmap type. This is just phase one of many. Stay frosty.