- Font: Brannbol Fet
- 15% shear
- 15% arc
- outline font / expand effects
- medium blue to dark blue gradient
- cntrl + b (copy behind), cyan blue outline
- cntrl + b, gray outline
- mimaki fine cut > create shadow
- cyan outline > outer glow, white
- shadow > inner glow, black
If you ever go to overlea fullerton you probly see this thing on the side of the road. And yes, this is a crappy camera phone photo of a crappy print out of a crappy photo of the actual object. ive actually only ever seen it ONCE and passed it doing maybe 45, and didnt even think to photograb it till like 4 blocks later. i need to be better at searching out these things. In fact, on my way to work i pass another monument sign i designed, lets see… oh yeah, EVERY day.
i forgot i even made these! a few summers back, we had a bounty of peppers n thangs we’s done did grew, so i figured it would be a pretty bad-ass christ mass gift if i made home made hot sauce – complete with label! – for all the friends and fam! reports came back quick that everyone loved the roasted flavors, while the habenero’s really brought some flame to the forefront!
i need to make some that again! that was pretty good stuff…
finally got this thing figured out! should be here in a coupla weeks. i like the owl! hes fun. and if you stand back far, it looks like it says “PLANT DUNDALK” which i like too. subtle? who, me?
so i updated one of my tiling wallpapers to be a bit more… bang, i guess you might say.
same style (mind bending overlapping squares) but with a more pronounced series of grandients. on the nerd level, the three gradients (each associated with a layer) sort of loop, such that one is cyan to yellow, one yellow to magenta, and one magenta to cyan (with black represented in the X). anyways, once i get there, i think ill be selling each variant, one bright CMYK, one “southwestern sunset” shall we say…
doesnt the bright one seem sort of mucha-like in its colors? i really like it.
so ive been thinking it might be nice to break up the heavy pattern action of the wallpaper. even though its a small room, mind bending patterns might not be the most *ahem* friendly in the morning, nor for any other time when youd want to shower. you know shower, pleasant time, peace, whatever.
so ive drafted up some sketches of what id like using some found imagery on the net. basically its a three panel triptych with the widest being the middle that runs the length of the shower. the images dont necessarily have to match, so much as give the impression you are showering in an awesome space.
trying to make some rad wall paper for me bathing room. i always like mind bending stuff, although because i can make it me self, there is very little time commitment. heres some proofs.
a one-to-one zoom on the print i have up now in test phase – need to see if it gets the “girlfriend stamp of approval”; tradition, made of some floral elements i rotated (illustrator > effect > distort & transform > transform), plus an ink blot, a lion, a stag and some upside down stars -hail santa!:
and heres one i made today, thats a little more geometric, less floral, less traditional, and totally more mind bendy! (thats the loopable image, but it will be about 4 feet tall when printed):
actually the hardest part – which im sure is all math – is figuring out how to draw the boundaries, so the graphic loops. i think one of my next stops is to make an incorrectly looping image, but whose incorrect loop is ALMOST unnoticeable.
what do you get when your customer asks for a plunger to be added to the baltimore skyline?
and actually, i dont think it turned out half bad, although my favorite party is dorky and only knowable by me; the black is black cut vinyl, while the gradient portion is actually printed, laminated and then contour cut. deadly combo!
here be a fresh one, and it still needs some tweaking, but the idea is there. and actually, its not really that fresh – this exact layout occurred to me about 10 years ago before i had something to stick it on to, so i just sort of filed it away under “designs for a later point in life” or something. im liking – who am i kidding, i always like – futura, but i might something JUST a bit different. always hated the futura C’s, for instance. and the R’s too. and R is such a great letter shape!
don needed to ‘pimp his ride’ so we both agreed a few giant digits were pretty much the clear choice for going forward!
simple but clean! hopefully they go for it!
kinda classic or something. they like it, im happy.
proof it actually got made!!!!
so chris goes, “hey, we should make ashley some shirts for her birthday, but like, for ‘Smashley Demolition Services’ and it should say “WE BREAK THINGS!”.
within maybe 3 days we had a logo settled on, a screen burned, and 12 shirts made.
another lil quicky for the beautiful swear words blog.
PIZZA DESTROYER
quick lil graphic for a menu-board template i made. real logo goes there when real company chooses this template. but still, i like the idea of the metal-pumping delivery boy now all grown up and owning his own pizza joint where he can FINALLY choose the music to play inside. and its like maiden and metalica and slayer and like tons of black sabbath.
yeah. that would be rad.
simple little dingus, but i liked it, in its very simpleness.
yup.
that date is right.
it took me that long to blog this dang mo fo.
anyways, were looking at a Merry Christmas sign we did for local towns people (no joke, city people paid for it) that was essentially 100% up to me both graphic and product design wise. came out tight.
of course, i couldnt help throwing a little metal into the mix, right?
