“Swatch,” is a project where we as students are to articulate our own personal graphic language by assembling imagery and marks on a 2-d surface. The project is not about pattern design per; instead, we are using the idea of pattern to assemble imagery that may come from diverse sources yet holds together around a common vocabulary.
Think of this as a piece of fabric or wallpaper of who we are as designers!
As school eases its way back into my life, so does a newly design website ease its way into the Graphic Design MFA program here at MICA. Over the summer, Justin Kropp created a beautiful site for all 12 of us new students and the remaining 7 from last year to call home for the next year or so. On this new clean cut site, you can view some work from each of the 19 Grad Students and find out information about our professors and upcoming guest lecturers! You can also see what we are all blogging about and what is going on in the studio.
Preview of the new MFA GD site at MICA!
I am so happy that I am here at MICA! So far, everyone has been super awesome and more intriguing than I could have imagined. There are people in my program from every corner of the US and parts of Asia and South America. I really feel like we are all going to bring something very interesting to the table when we have group discussions and projects.
I finished all of my classes for the week, yesterday afternoon. I will have every Thursday and Friday to sort through the piles of reading, writing and designing that I have to have completed every Monday! Hopefully I will continue to have enough time to post interesting things that I find on the net, intermixed with some of my own personal work. School is definitely a big jump back onto the saddle compared to the routine 8:30 till 5:30 that I have been accustomed to over the last 2 years.
Any who, enjoy this new site for the MFA GD program! It is sure to be chocked full of content pretty quickly as school continues!
Check out this group of people that I went to undergrad school with. They are doing some pretty cool things in an old warehouse building in Starkville, MS. They have artist that rent spaces in the building to create work. Then they are able to exhibit their stuff in a small gallery space. I think that this is a super cool thing for them to do in Mississippi. If you want to know more about them, visit their website at www.cre8tivewarehouse.com
For typography geeks, the Web is a depressingly drab place. Just look around the page you’re reading now: There are only a couple of fonts, Arial and Verdana, used to display most of the text. That would be fine, except that they’re the same two fonts you find everywhere else on the Web. Read more here.
Yann was nominated as one of 13 emerging photographers of 2008 by American Photo magazine for Horizonville, Yann Gross’s stark yet humorous series explores the unattainable American Dream – in Switzerland. He first discovered photography when he began to take pictures of his friends at school, and with that, he was hooked: ‘Actually, the experiences I live by taking pictures are almost more important than the results,’ says Gross.
His work is pretty interesting and amazing! Got to love it…
A pro race car driver and designers Pierre & Damien created a font with a Toyota. The driver traced letters of the alphabet in the car, while custom-designed software captured the car’s movements. With the imaging data, the Belgian design duo created a font, which is available for free download on Toyota’s site.
“Everytime”, the video for the London-based bandOi Va Voi,was painstakingly created byKatarzyna Kijek & Przemysław Adamski using papershredders (and a lot of creativity).
The process took exactly one month from the shooting day to the final render. After editing and synchronizing the initial footagein Premiere, every third frame was exported and printed to paper.Each page was shredded and shot three times, blended with adjacent frames in different configurations.The final product:
idsgn.comRecent Kingston University design graduates Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson take 8 ink jet printers and make them come to life in an award-winning student video for Hewlett Packard.
THE BEATLES | ROCK BANDThis is Awesome!! I Can not wait for this to be out for me to get it and start jamming away!
I LOVE the BEATLES and this just makes it even that much better! Not to mention the video clip below is freaking unreal. This animation is so beautiful and dazzeling and everything Beatles… Yay!!!
This just has to be one of the mst fantastic and unexpected cast EVER! It will have to be freaking amazing! Can not wait at all to see this…
“NINE” is a vibrant and provocative musical that follows the life of world famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penelope Cruz), his film star muse (Nicole Kidman), his confidant and costume designer (Judi Dench), an American fashion journalist (Kate Hudson), the whore from his youth (Fergie) and his mother (Sophia Loren). The film is directed by Rob Marshall (CHICAGO). The original 1982 Broadway production of “NINE,” with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, won five Tony Awards including Best Musical.
This is an experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques. Directed by chassaing.xavier@gmail.com | Music by http://www.myspace.com/fedaden
Sometimes the simplest things are the most beautiful.
Using wind as the inspiration to create an abnormal flow of ink is very intrigueing. I just love how the ink responds to her touch as she bumps the wall. At almost seems as if the wind is directing where each bump will be as well as how fast and far teh ink flows across the surface.
In this News Channel 7 Exclusive we step behind the scenes of The University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Arts and Letters Arts Gala for 2009. In the video clip you can see how some of the pieces for the Gala are already in the works for the September 10th event.
I designed all of the promotional pieces for the Gala as well as the posters for the Southern Arena Theatre (SAT) that are hanging in the lobby of the Theatre and Dance building where several shots of this interview took place.
Basically everything that you see in the video that has Moulin Rouge or SAT written on it is something that I have designed. Click on the photo below to see a more detailed version of the invitation as well as the sleeve that the invitation was mailed in!
I have to say this may quite possibly be one of the most awesome gut wrenching amazingly sweet and funny videos that I have seen in quite a long time. This little dog is only 8-1/2 months old and she is already a little princess. Watch out Mother Teresa, “Jenny” is gaining ground as she takes her little stuffed puppies for a walk around Portland, Organ! My question is, Who did they train this dog to push a freakin stroller around town? Simply AH-MAZING!!!
Being a print maker myself, this video makes me yearn to be back in a print shop and making prints and images. I just love the smell of ink in the morning! I know that this must sound odd, but printing inks are just so much fun to mix and play with. Whilst being a Graphic Designer is great and fun, sitting in front of a computer all day long can be a little tiring. There is a certain physical quality about a print, whether it be from a letterpress or a silk screen, that is very tangible and makes the design POP!
As you watch the video below, I hope you can see some of the beauty of the craft of printing. It is a sad thought that many small print shops have had to close their doors because of this digital age that we are all currently aiding.
In case anyone is lacking a little type knowledge, here is a quick rundown that illustrates the basics of typography. I found this a while back while looking for some inspiration for a project. This little video is very interesting and easy to understand, not to mention pretty!
Perpetuum Jazzile is Slovenia’s only jazz choir, conducted and art director by Tomaž Kozlevčar.
Xtravaganzza 2007 “When the voice becomes the instrument… … and when the instrument becomes the voice, you hear the beat of fresh rhythms and close harmonies of Perpetuum Jazzile. Our repertoire would not be OURS without the typical Brazilian bossa nova, swing, close harmonies, funk, pop and gospel. Today, when music is moving into the digital sphere, WE are passionately returning it to the analogue!!” -quote from thier web site www.perpetuumjazzile.si/en/
I just wanted to show off some of my old work from when I was in school at Mississippi State University. It is always interesting to go back and look at things that you have designed years ago. Pretty much everything that is in this set of photos is from late 2004 through the end of 2006.
Boy have the times flown by. It just seems like yesterday that I was working on these projects!
Thanks to Jamie Mixon, Linda Seckinger, Soon Ee Nogh and Kate Bingaman-Burt for pushing me so hard to create things. I think it all paid off!
Mount Equinox, Vermont | The Charterhouse of the Transfiguration monastery | an abandoned subterranean cryonics receptacle | a dozen siberian Huskies and several rare llamas make any music video AWESOME!!
At first this all seems a little bit odd, but the more you watch it, the music and the images are quite fantastic! I really feel like this should be the theme song for the upcoming movie based on the #1 book by Stephenie Meyer “NEW MOON” that is going to be in theaters everywhere on November 20, 2009!
