Wish Fulfillment Machine

Britt and I launched our new website last night. Check it out - we're going to become internet sensations. 

And this is what's been going on in my sketchbook

This is what's been going on on the 2nd Floor of Recitation

I forgot these

Just a couple logotype experiments for Unesco world heritage sites. Tubbataha's a coral reef in the Philippines. Banidagara's a cliff city in Mali. 

I was looking through some old photos and I came across a video my dad took of me after a play in high school. He meant to take a picture so I'm just standing still, holding a smile and saying cheese while everyone around is moving about. It's really funny looking. I might do a series of little movies in that vein. 

I was also thinking about a little font satire project using objects to create new versions of cheesy typefaces:

Party: in confetti, streamers, cake, etc etc. 

Curls: locks of curly hair

Impact: indented or pressed/punched into clay

Comic Sans: non-serifed happy faces. 

Hey Mom, this doesn't make any sense anymore -or- "New Work"

Lettering and accouterments using french fries, pickle remnant, strawberry, tomato, onion, ketchup, and sandwich spears. House Industries' hand lettering class rubbing off on me much?

We had a pretty good pre-crit on our posters last night. Mali was right, that wall looks nice. Everything's really fitting together this semester - lettering, illustration, screen printing, and portfolio prep. Can I be a designer-illustrator? Rachel Zimmerman from InLiquid, the Philly artists' site gave us a talk yesterday and she was talking about how important it is for us to have a cohesive body of work; a unit. 

Baltimore

We like stuff. So do visionary artists. I can't believe yesterday was my first visit to the Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore. Chris Roberts-Antieau and J.J. Cromer are a couple of my new favorite artists. Self-taught, outsider art.  Over the winter I saw the James Castle exhibit at the PMA. Like a lot of the artists in the Visionary, he developed his own visual language and used any/all of the materials he had on hand to make his art. 

Justin was reminded of Dan Deacon while we were there. It did seem appropriate that such playful, glittery, silly things were housed in Baltimore where: 

There is a mountain of snow, up past the big glen.
We have a castle enclosed, there is a fountain
Out of the fountain flows gold, into a huge hand
That hand is held by a bear who had a sick band

Of ghosts and cats
And pigs and bats
With brooms and bats
And wigs and rats
And play big dogs like queens and kings
And everyone plays drums and sings

I want to make my graphic design more fun. More absurd. 

Still, this The City from Below poster is a step in the right direction - more me.  

Pause

It's been a few days since my internship ended and classes don't start until Tuesday. Today then, is a pause between what was honestly a fairly relaxed, low-stress foray into professional life and what I expect will be a very intense final semester. 

My internship ended well. We were working on illustrations for an editorial in Boston Magazine the last couple days and Oliver pretty much based the design off of my idea. It was good to feel useful, especially since there were some points where I questioned my competency. In Illustrator particularly. I learned a lot about it in an effort to avoid embarrassing myself and a lot from just watching how he did things. 

I'm not so clear on when it would be ok for me to post an image of this poster I did for The City From Below, but I'm impatient so I think I should be safe with this detail. I can put up the real thing sometime in March.