So another new media module is coming to a close. I had fun with photography module, although I found it extremely challenging. I used Nikita as a model for my window light pictures. The first two are from the day when she dressed up in a banana costume!
We will be starting video module this week. I am pretty nervous about that, but I think it will be fun!
This is pretty cool! A typeface where every letter is an optical illusion!!
This is my Mexican wrestler poster I completed as part of my color theory poster. It was made using simplified art and typography, to make a composition using harmonious spot colors. I used the Pantone book to choose my spot colors.
I am really happy with how it turned out! 🙂
This is the first project we were given for Jason’s class. It was intended to get our creative juices flowing after the Christmas break. I of course took the opportunity to express myself through comics, and was surprised with how fast I was able to do this. Admittedly, it’s a bit of a mess, but I still like how it turned out. In typical form, I used this opportunity to explain my failures and why my life has been such a goddamn train wreck before now.
Roadmap of my messed up life.
When we were assigned the final poster project, I got some beer and did a huge brainstorm / braindump with a my friend Cory Foster. Over the next couple of hours we came up with a ton of ideas, many of which I thought were pretty cool. I sketched out my top ten ideas.
On my way to school one glorious Tuesday, I was sitting on the bus, continuing to come up with ideas for this assignment. I couldn’t believe it. It was like my brain was a fountain and the ideas were.. I don’t know if this is working…. anyway you get it. Long story short, I felt like the world’s biggest friggen genius ever invented. That’s it, I thought, this is my time to shine. I’m gonna be the president of the world.
Within blocks of the school, whilst daydreaming about becoming president of the world, I thought of the old saying “don’t be second banana” and also the Woody Allen movie Bananas, wherein a clip from Battleship Potempkin was featured. WORLDS COLLIDED. As the bus rolled up to the school, I made one last doodle. It was a banana.
Teacher Jill liked the banana. I say Teacher Jill because that’s what I call her.
I was like ugh is she kidding?!?!?! She must be like one of those idiot savant rainmen people who can see stuff that other people can’t (that’s not an insult, it means I think she’s smart. Follow along, dumbass)! That’s by far the dumbest idea of the lot…. and now looking back at my sketches I began to question the intellectual integrity of any of these ideas. A banana? What does that even mean? But the client gets what the client wants, right? A week later, I had so many different manifestations of banana posters I thought I was gonna actually GO bananas. Wah wahhhh.
Anyway.
The night before the posters were due, I was still stuck. I was going cross-eyed, and getting frustrated so I pulled out my notes from my original beer brainstorm for inspiration. I decided that doing a variety of fast and convenient foods would make more sense to the 48 hour film fest, because that’s all you’ll have time to eat. I also did a fruit series. Here is the result of all my hard work:
Just kidding, sort of. Here are a few of my “finished” products.
Ryan Larkin is an acclaimed Canadian artist who in later years lived on the streets of Montreal following a history of drug and alcohol abuse. He was the subject of Oscar-winning film Ryan. I cannot remember how I ran across the film in the first place but a couple of funny things happened after I watched it. For one, I wanted to watch all of his other stuff, which was pretty brilliant. But on the creepier side, my brother’s computer which I was using to watch it on, after dinner, started playing the loud city noises from the film all by itself! It was really creepy and we got scared. Here’s Ryan:
Ryan by Chris Landreth, National Film Board of Canada
Larkin worked at the National Film Board of Canada, where he learned animation. Probably his most famous short film was Walking (1969), which used a variety of techniques to illustrate people walking:
Walking by Ryan Larkin, National Film Board of Canada
I hope you take some time to watch his other work here. It’s all amazing!
http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/ryan-larkin
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This is our video assignment on hope! I hope you enjoy!
This is a terrific video about logo design. I am always fascinated by the branding for companies such as Coca-Cola, which has changed very little over the years. I guess the more effective the logo and brand design is, the more timeless it is.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3jTSB2ez-g&w=560&h=315]
A pretty cool video on Lego art!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H4C5xZG_WU&w=560&h=315]
I love hand drawn typography, but never knew it was even a thing until this week. I just thought it was me sitting at home alone, drawing the names of all the guys I have crushes on at my coffee table while watching old reruns of Friends. Drawing letters was a skill I learned so that I could bypass using the computer on my cartoons, because learning new technology pisses me off, which is totally okay if I’m doing it at school but I’m doing cartoons to relax, dammit, not give myself a non-spicy-food related ulcer.
So anyway. Now that I know it’s a thing, I want to learn more.
Alida Rosie Sayer, a visual communications student from Glasgow School of Art created this title sequence from Susperia, a cult classic and one of the finest horror films ever made. Wait, did I say “finest”? I meant “totally the opposite of finest.” But a great movie for horror buffs like myself and absolutely worth watching. Here’s Sayer’s take on the title sequence:
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/5018022 w=500&h=213] <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/5018022″>Title sequence re-design for ‘Suspiria’ (1977) dir. Dario Argento</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/alidarosie”>Alida Rosie Sayer</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Susperia is about a ballerina lady who travels to Germany to attend this really important ballerina lady school, but it really turns out to be a house full of crazy witches and demons and I don’t remember the rest so I guess I should watch it again. Bloodbaths and screaming ensues. It’s pretty awesome in a terrible kinda way.
Here’s the original trailer:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q_o-iV_L2A&w=560&h=315]
I KNOW. Shut up, right?? “The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92.” WOOOOOOOO! Italy, have you been reading my diary????? All of my problems have been solved by this movie and I will never complain about anything else for the rest of my life.
Mostly, I like how the director created surreal, dreamlike scenes and used bright colors to create this alternate world. Kinda similar to A Clockwork Orange or The Shining or pretty much any other Stanley Kubrick movie.
But I also like the hilarious and ridiculous killing scenes.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRG2qpEwl4&w=560&h=315]
Anyway, where am I? I’m so confused. I am supposed to be talking to you about hand drawn typography.
So Alida Rosie Sayer. Her use of typography in her work is pretty cool. It’s thoughtful and creepy and weird and makes me think thoughts. That part hurts. You should check it out!
These are great, I love these kinda retro-looking pieces by Von Brandis:
Daren Newman’s work at Me & My Pen is pretty darn complex. I like it. I am not sure if Tom would like his stuff. Some of it is pretty ornate:
