Music Choices for Website Project

My next project in Web Design is to design a website for a music artist of my choice. I'm struggling to pick between 3 artists: Kate Havnevik, Zero 7, and Cobra Starship. I've decided to go ahead and do roughs for each, but here are a few tracks by each artist so you can get a better feel for who they are and whether or not the roughs I make would work for them.

Our new frog!

Over the last few months we've slowly been rebranding ourselves at Treefrog Cinegraphix: new look, new logo, new website. The new website will be up in a couple of weeks and the logo has only been simplified, but recently I finally got around to redesigning our frog icon. We wanted the look to be cuter and even a little more cartoony than the last. So here he is... new and improved.

Wine Poster

Just finished up my first project in Advanced Graphics II with Krity Peninno. We had to design a wine poster for this competition hosted by a Spanish wine company, Bodegas Terras Gauda. Aside from the basic competition specs, Kristy also gave us some constraints to which we had to adhere:

1. The entire piece had to be done by hand - no using the computer to do any work except adding the logo after scanning/photographing the finished piece.

2. It had do be 3-dimensional in some way.

Additionally, we also could only use our own work, which meant we couldn't use someone else's stock photography or images from magazines, etc.

The piece I ended up doing was an Art Nouveau piece done entirely with cut paper, ink, and watercolor paint. The golden frame is actually raised up from the background by about a quarter inch - this was done to help meet the 3-D requirement and give it some depth. It's still a bit rough, and I plan to go into Photoshop and fix up some of the line and color work (cause yeah, I totally didn't use those watercolors right). Overall thought I am pleased with the final outcome giving the difficulty I had putting the thing together.

New Illustration Portfolio

Hi all :) So I just went ahead and uploaded a whole bunch of work to my portfolio at Coroflot. It features my illustration and illustration only. So, please check it out when you have some time... maybe leave a comment cause comments are nice and they make me warm and fuzzy inside :)

Check it out here!

Nothing like some nitty gritty baby photos to start the day off right

Over the summer I did a series of photo shoots for an anti-smoking campaign in Advanced Graphics I. This set of images is from the first shoot. The idea around the imagery was to simulate the environment a baby is living in while you're smoking during pregnancy. The premise was "would you do this to your baby?" The photos were to be graphic, dirty, and disgusting. But first I needed a baby.

So I went to Thriftko and spent all of $2 on a baby doll in a little pink dress. Perfect. I got up on a Sunday morning and headed over to the apartment complex of fellow photography aficionado and VCC student, Rita Barnes. Together we went around her development looking for the most vile, disgusting habitats to put our little "Peggy Sue" in... puddles, sewer pipes, trash cans, dumpsters... if it was nasty then we were happy. Peggy Sue got progressively dirtier and dirtier aa the morning wore on, and eventually we bagged her up and called it a day.

Below are some of the primo picks of the 150 we took that day. They've been given only slight color and contrast adjustments. I've also done alternates in black and white because it gives the imagery an entirely different (and darker) tone.

If Fonts Were People

I discovered this video the other day, and it has to be the funniest vid that I have seen in a long time. This is probably because I am a giant graphic design/typography nerd. :3 Anyway, you don't have to know all of the fonts in this vid to appreciate the humor in this. Wingdings is by far my favorite character. Please enjoy!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Updates coming soon

I've been skimpy with my posts lately, but I promise there are blogs coming ahead. Just recently my external hard drive up and died, so I'm out all of my school, work, morgue, and portfolio files. It sucks - there's really no better way to put it. Finally, the semester is coming to a close, which means it's time for finals and projects. I have an ad campaign and brochure design for one class, and a typographic self portrait for another. My only written final is today (eek!). So once the semester is over I plan to have a few blogs to show you some of those projects plus a few other goodies. In the meantime though, you can watch this video that we made about our company.


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