Project 6 - Repackaging

ChewGlue is the latest product to hit the shelves.If your tired of squeezing adhesives out of a can just pop a piece in your mouth, get 'er stick and boom, you got yourself some real sticky stuff.

Project 5 - iMovie

This was probably . . . no, definately the most labor intensive project of the semester. I scrapped my original dog movie because the it got too cold to be outside all day with my dogs shooting pics. In the new film, I took over 400 photos and put in about 20 editing hours. I tried to match the photo transitions to the beats as best as imovie would allow.

Project 4 - Categories

I am really into drinking, I mean socializing... So i chose to Catagorize place where people socialize. . . Ok ok, it's about booze. It still needs another revision.

Project 3 - Campaign

This was fun, then boring then fun again. After a few bad choices for the concept and images, I think I pulled off a decent campaign.

Project 2 - Description

I had to contact the folks over at Nocturnal Design Lab to get the high resolution images for this piece. Brendan of NDL was extremely helpful. I wouldn't have been able to create a proper design possible without his help. Thank you NDL.

Project 1 - Profile

Here is what I came up with for our first assignment for Words and Images. I had a friend who went to the DNC, and I thought it was a timely profile.

Collections

Well, I have a collection of flyers that i have designed. I thought I can throw a few up on my blog. There mostly pretty girl party posters. I was a promoter a few years ago, so I was in nightlife up to my neck a few years back then.

Dogs Life

I love my dogs. I've had dogs for about 10 years and they've been with me through the ups and downs. We'e been to just about every big park in Baltimore City. My favorites are Gwynns Galls and Robert E. Lee. When I tried to do my I movie about my dogs, I thought about the hundreds of photographs I have taken over the past 10 years. They love posing and being the center of attention. They have more personaltiy than many people that I know. The big white and brown one "Diamond", passed away last year. He was my heat and soul. Here are some of my favorite.

RIP
"Diamond"








"Coco", the lady of the house has had about 6 litters of pups in her lifetime. All together almost 50 pups.












"Diamond" with a pup looking cute as ever.



























Here's "Coco" doing her motherly thang and "Diamond" show his family some love.


















This is my priceless image of "D" & "C" that made it to Collegiate Photographers magazine in 2002. This is definately one of my al time favorites of anything I have ever produced.

AEROFORM

I was lucky enough to get the guys from Nocturnal Design Labs to send me hi-res artwork from aero form. Because of the simplicity of the concept design, i decided to use one image that would spread across the page. NDL sent me several images that give a more in depth look at AEROFORM. check out http://www.nocturnaldesignlab.com/ to check out their amazing futurisitc minds.

Sound and Hand

I had to throw this in. I have tons of notebook covers and pages just full of grafitti. I remember, my teachers used to bug out, wondering if I was ever paying attention because my eyes were down on my art. I did however, have one teacher call me out one day and he said i pay better attention when I'm drawing. I don't know what it is about drawing, but it widens my ears and helps me focus. Anyway, this one is pretty cool!

Memory Lane

Ok, so speaking of memory lane, I keep a sketchbook around my office within arms reach that remind me of my good ole' days, or maybe they were the fuck fucked up days/// I don't know. But I was a messenger in NYC in the mid 90's and this little black book was my road dog. I took it every where. I even passed it around to friends so they could stain it with a memory or two for me. It has mostly grafitti. But you'll also find pencil and pen drawings of people, my dogs, the city and other things. Thumb through and you may even find the love letters, dj track lists and random phone numbers and various scribble. I love that book!!!

Can you guess when this was done? (hint: it's inconspicuously dated)

I used to write LES and sometimes in grafitti (for those that aint up on it) you add prefixes and suffixes to have more fun with more letters among other reasons, I guess. I wanted to get around to coloring it, but i also like the simplicity of the black ink. Anyway, I wrote less because thats what I had, but now that less became more, so it still makes sense, more or less....

This is one of my favorite drawings. The memory behind it is probably better than the actual art work. I was waiting for my ex-ex girlfriend at Union square in NYC. She went to the New School on 14th and 5th ave (I think). She was taking forever and i had my book with me and I looked down the street. The Twin towers were standing tall in the background and I started to sketch. It's crazy because I feel lucky to have had the chance to see the Towers live and capture them at that moment. I never finished the drawing because after 2 hours my ex-ex girl emerged and we rolled out.

She tells her story

Claw Money is grafitti writer featured in September's Juxtapoz magazine. The first 5 words of her short narrative tell a million stories by them self. " I love to be bad". Shit, don't we all. I love the fact that she's a feamle and she did the same shit I did when I was young (except for the lingerie shoplifting). This is a quick snipette, that takes me straight down memory lane.

Favorite Words

That and uh.... haberdashery.

Two of my favorite words!!

Typalogo

Here's a logo I worked on for Digit All Systems. I used san serif and rounded the edges in illustrator. The client was looking for a bold, but clean and friendly logo for their multimedia Curricula training business.

Typo

Wired magazine is known for some fantastic type usage. Here is a page that starts there department section. The numbers are disguised in this block-style type. It look as though it may not even be a typeface but instead, just an illustration.

Shake it

Alex Pappademas wrote a funny article in October's GQ about a recent encounter that he had with Idris Elba, the guy who played Stringer Bell on The Wire. He talks about how his extended handshake transforming into the Soul Shake. He describes a Soul Shake as " a standard handshake followed by a thumb clasp, ending with a one-armed chest-bumping half-hug." Which is what they ended up doing, in a not so soulful way.

The catagorical breakdown is a little blurred because the article talks about several handshakes, which are greetings, but the accompanying photos show celebratory fraternizing. It's a good article, regardless, i enjoyed it.

Switching to Green

I found an example of a call to action that i wanted to share. The idea is to get people to make a "switch" to 100% clean electricity sources within the next 10 years. They play on the word "switch" by showing a huge power switch in the middle of a green field. They may be impying that switching to clean power sources is as easy as switching on a light, but i dont know if i believe that.

Photoshop 101

I Found a neat tip in the September pages of Photoshop User magazine. I used the technique for one of the graphics on my Complex profile layout.The instructions show you how to take images and filter them to look like an old school television screen. The steps are easy and the results are pretty cool. I recreated the shapes that make up the You Tube navagation bar, found a hi-res You Tube log, and whal-ah.....























I figured this screen would compliment the retro Obama shoe that also appreared on my profile layout.

One of my daily inspirations

My assistant, Sean, came in one day with this funny little orange stick figure that he bought at a Museum in DC. The rubber figure is flexible and has magnetic-tipped extremities. We began testing the magnetic surfaces around our office by attaching him to where ever he would stick. We got kicks out of dangling him from our desks, door knobs and even the screws of the fire alarm on the ceiling. We are always looking for new places for him to hang.

While I was away this summer, Sean covered the office for me. He took over projects, sat in meetings and worked hard to make sure everything remained in order. When I returned to work, I noticed the little orange fella had a message for me. "Get To Work," it read. I guess it was Sean's friendly way of saying "I'm tired of doing your job."

I still place him around the office from time to time just to give myself and my wondering co-workers a friendly reminder to "get to work." He's a funny token of inspiration.