Design #105: Shape up ships

I'm happy to be back - even if just for an evening! Technically I've completed 2 designs this week, but I have to hold off on posting one of them because it will be featured on the super cool Design Milk blog next Wednesday (September 1). Design Milk is an online magazine dedicated to modern design including art, architecture, interior design, furniture and decor, fashion, and technology. They've been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Time Out New York, and is one of the Google Engineers’ Staff Picks.

Is it obvious about how excited I am about this?

For the time being, here's another hand-drawn type wallpaper for your enjoyment

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The summer of lots of work

The last few weeks of this summer have been hot and productive. While I've been furiously trying to tie up the last few ends of my summer extra-curricular design work, I've been totally slacking on my design a day (and feeling a little guilty I must admit). So in Dribbble-esque style, I decided to post snapshots of a few of the projects that I've had the chance to be involved with this summer. It's not everything - I don't know that I'm allowed to post some of them just yet - but it is my design a day alibi.

Invite for a co-worker's annual School's Out Party

A very exciting multi-part, summer-long project that's still under wraps

Updated an existing logo  - Need a custom vacation home in Colorado? I can hook you up.

T-Shirt design for an annual retreat. It ended up being a little too girly, but still fun anyway

This is actually an Aptera project - the annual open house. The best night of your life.

Design #104: Never ever

I find it intriguing. So many times you say (or you hear people say) that there is something they won't do, somewhere they won't live, something they won't be or do. Ironically, and more often than not, you find yourself (or those people) doing exactly what it was you said (or they said) they wouldn't do. It just makes you wonder... Learning experience anyone? .....................................

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Design #103: Gon' eat some friend chicken

This wallpaper is for my southern friends. ..........................

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Design #102: Channeling Linzie Hunter

Ever since finding her work in HOW Magazine last year, I've been in love with Linzie Hunter's work. Originally from Scotland, she was a theater major before studying illustration at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. All of her work is great, but my favorite is the series of gorgeous hand-lettered illustrations using subject lines from spam email. The phrase on my design today comes from one of the most famous movie break-up lines, "It's not you, it's me." And I wondered, has that line ever been turned on it's head?

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Design #101: Flip out!

Have I mentioned how much I love drawing type?  Right. The thing I love most about hand drawn typography is there isn't the pressure of making it perfect. The slightly shaky lines, the lines that accidentally wander outside of the boundaries of the typography...that's what I love. It's tactile and human and you don't get that naturally with digital art.

Frank Chimero had a blog post recently called Faking It. Here it is in a nutshell:

“How do you get those uneven edges in your illustrations?” “I draw them, unevenly.”

“What’s the best way to get this to look like it’s cut out of paper?” “Cut it out of paper.”

“What typeface are you using? It looks so much like handwriting.” “That’s my handwriting.”

Of course. That's what I love.

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Celebratory Design #100: Where's bears?

Very, very excited to post my 100th design for this year. I'm amazed that I've created 100 unique designs in 7 months - it's been a blast. Thanks to my March drawing challenge, I have to say that I now enjoy having just a paper and pen in front of me (it hasn't always been that way). Lately I've had fun utilizing hand drawn type in my wallpapers and tonight was no exception. I'm not completely for sure where the phrase "Where's Bears" came from; it sounds like a book I would have read in elementary school, but after a quick search I wasn't able to find a match. If anyone has any leads feel free to let me know.

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