The Graphic Imperative

Luba Lukova's sociopolitical posters have been a big influence on me....her brilliance and the beautiful simplicity of her work is quite inspirational

Album Covers

Sigur Ros--Agaetis Byrjun

Pixies--Doolittle

Pink Floyd--Obscured By Clouds

Pinback--Blue Screen Life

Old 97's--Fight Songs

Neutral Milk Hotel--In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

The Mars Volta--Francis the Mute

m83--Saturdays=Youth

m83--Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

Lydia-- Illuminate

Ladytron--604

The Kamikaze Hearts-- Oneida Road

Junior Boys-- So This is Goodbye

Julianna Barwick-- Florine

Zoomorphic Calligraphy

Gorgeous!!!

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calendar final??

off to the printer....hopefully....




40 x 34

Blog Assignment-- T-shirt designs

Aaaahh amazing!!!

how gorgeous is this....

calendar ideas

so, my calendar is going to be made strictly of numerals...some ideas:

Blog Assignment #9--Flickr site.

I already have one....i guess ill start updating it more than once a year....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56012653@N00/

label on bottle

Blog Assignment #8--Complete the sentence

Each week I feel as though I must check in with/at:
--ilovetypography.com
--lovelypackage.com
--designobserver.coroflot.com
--graphic-exchange.com
--septemberindustry.co.uk
--I check everyone's blogs fairly often to snicker and point (jk)
--cmykmag.com (the dont update super often, but have student's work on there)

final label

wine bottle tag

booyah!

Blog Assignment #7-- Books, Periodicals

The Terror...I read alot of novels and this one literally blew my brain out the back of my skull....I'm serious, I have no brain...a few times while reading I needed to close the book because I was scared....That never happened to me before....



Area....This book is full of inspirational design from all over the world.



Comm Arts....duh, its amazing!!



Thinking with Type...a bible for typography

contents spread.

kablamakus!!

Lost Vineyards Creative Brief

For my bottle redesign, I have chosen an Argentine malbec that is distributed by Lost Vineyards. This company's goals are to seek out and sell wines from little known vineyards around the globe. They current sell wines from five different countries. Using what only could be described as a Pirates of the Caribbean theme, their bottles follow an established template regardless of the wine's country of origin or type. I understand what they are trying to do. They are a low cost wine distribution company that have latched on to the theme of "lost treasure" and ran with it. For my eyes, though, their design is kind of embarrassing and ugly.
For my design, I have decided to revisit the basic idea of what Lost Vineyards does. They discover or rediscover these vineyards. "Lost" is a misleading term. My design will be centered around discovery, with the wine being a jumping off point for learning about the country/region. The idea is to imbue the design with a sense of history and culture.
For the actual physical aspects of the design, I believe that I am taking a fairly traditional route. The package will be a four sided, vertical box. My labels will be printed on an off-white or creme paper with a toothy texture. I think there's something really beautiful in the simplicity of this.

wine label, possibly

The "Lost" is just a placeholder for now....im still working on it
and I'm not sure about wrapping the label as opposed to two separate labels (front and back of bottle)....

Thoughts??

Blog Assignment #6---Workspace.

Here's my workstation at home....youve all seen it before....that is where i do my designing.

wine bottle redesign, part one.

This is going to be the main idea of the redesign on Lost Vineyards malbec from Argentina.... I am focusing on the idea of discovering lost and unknown places. This wine, which Lost Vineyards have "found" in a small vineyard in Argentina, is a window into the Argentine culture and people. In essence, they are not only discovering vineyards but also actual places and opening up these places to people (customers) who would normally never experience them.

im kinda super excited about this....

Magazine cover.

simple and clean....

combo font

Blog Assignment #5--Block of Type

I tackled the two blocks surrounding my house....