Thursday, 16 December 2010

Collections


Below is a link to a presentation I gave during lecture last week showing one of my collections of "stuff" and how it describes me as a designer. The particular collection I chose is simply a series of snap shots of things in my room. As I've alluded to in an earlier post, we are fortunate as designers to create art that people surround themselves with everyday. My presentation shows examples of such art that I particularly enjoy. It also illustrates my theory that every individual should attempt to embody their personality within their living space. I feel I've always done a great job at plastering my identity all over my walls and always find it strange when someone lives in a house with a blank or generic decorating scheme.

View the presentation

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Cakespy.com

Another website/blog I really like - I found out about CakeSpy at a craft fair in Seattle where the artist was showcasing her drawings. I love how this site combines adorable design and illustration with fun baking tips.


Thoughts down on paper

I spent a lot of time last week playing around with and combining typography, color and illustration to see what could work and what wouldn’t work as the new Blue Cross identity. I’m coming up with concepts for a revised logo and also brainstorming various presentation ideas – the most successful of which I feel will be “the equation”. Through the use of eye-catching pictograms, I’m hoping I can develop a series of equations using the cross as a plus sign. Ideally they will attractively and clearly communicate various Blue Cross calls to action – donate, volunteer, adopt, learn more, etc. The following are some placement tests of the various illustration styles and logos I’ve developed thus far.

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