30-Minute World Peace Poster

Stan asked us to, with what we had on hand, concept and design a 12 x 18 poster for world peace, International Day of Piece, or anything like that. So here's a thing I did really quick:

The Good, the Rad, and the Shrugly

So I'm super into experimental and striking print/editorial/typographic design, so that's primarily what I'll be sharing.

Series of soccer player posters by Zoran Lucic.

Editorial design by Florencia Fuertes.

Sake Packaging design by Michael Nguyen.

Freak Folk Festival Campaign design by Ro Gal.

Event Promotion design by Lucila Quintana

There's just a lot of really awesome and nuanced print design coming out of Argentinian students from what I can tell from Behance. 

How about we make fun of some awful design now?

Yeah, Neil, I get hit every day on Marta by your terrible ads.

"Hey man, racism is gone! Sexism, too! I don't see color! *unbearably loud fart noises*" 

Seriously, racist and sexist advertising is still going on constantly. It doesn't matter how good your design is, it's automatically bad if it's bigoted *cough cough* American Apparel *cough*

Tryhard vaporwave/net art. Love some of the originators of this stuff and thought they were taking really interesting approaches on appropriating capitalist design, but seriously some of the crap people put out with this "aesthetic" is just plain awful.

That's all for now.

Does It Look Like I'm Here?

Timeline:

#selfie

Here's an in-progress (essentially done) update of my self-portrait project. I really wanted to get the feeling I captured in last semester's sketchbook project back into this, since that became so personal and cathartic for me. I'll hopefully get that scanned and uploaded soon. Either way, here's this:

Narrow Victory

Here are five selected works that I believe allowed me to sliver into the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Graphic Design at Georgia State:

1. Branding for Fantasyland Records (GRD 3200)

2. Typography (GRD 3150)

3. Event Poster (GRD 3000)

4. Book Cover (GRD 3000)

5. Packaging (GRD 3000)

Don't Hire Me

Revised my current resume and cleaned it up to the bare minimum things I felt were needed. Here's the old, terrible one:

And hey, here's some new crap I threw together that's probably worse?????? Yeah, definitely. Don't hire me.

The Long Anticipated Blog Update

I think when Spring semester ended, I just neglected this thing entirely. That's probably not a great idea considering this is the one place where most of my work is right now aside from my hard drive. Anyway, I got into the graphic design BFA program at State. I turned 21. 

Here was my final project for the semester, a specialty item for Fantasyland Records:

A full-sized, hand-crafted, wooden, alphabetical record divider set. Yes, you read correctly, I cut a bunch of wood sheets down and sanded them and used a wood burner to burn the letters in the tabs, as well as doing a modified acetone image transfer from a laser print onto the center of each board. Here's some photos of the finished product. 

It was one of the hardest projects I've ever worked on, both physically and mentally, it wore me out. Finishing this and then getting my portfolio together for application was extremely difficult. Here's a couple of projects that got some revisions before application day:

Packaging, from Intro to Graphic Design

Direct Mailer, from Intermediate Graphic Design