Reinventing the Wheel

Here is a game wheel I made for an upcoming Christmas party with friends. I'm excited to print it out, but I don't know how I'm going to execute the actual wheel making part. Will update when I succeed or fail.



...and here's a picture of it with a makeshift spinner.

Rainbows

The Women's Studies Department just added a GLBT minor to the program so they needed to redesign their logo. Of course, they wanted rainbows. I'm not giving them a rainbow, so here's what happened:

Birdie

This booklet was done last semester but I never got around to posting pictures of it. The picture quality stinks, so I will find time to re-shoot and re-post later.

BP Posters

School's back, ya'll. Collaborative poster project on the effects of the BP disaster. We came up with a handful of ideas but ended up just presenting the first three posters as a series.

Confort Lounge Business Card & Logo

Tea Bar Logos

Villagio

Those are a couple of logo ideas for a wedding banquet hall in Houston.

Peace, Love and Traffic

When it's raining really hard in Houston (which it has been all last week) and I'm stuck in traffic on 59 between Shepherd and the downtown spur, I always have one recurring thought: I imagine someone standing on the overpass bridge holding a sign that says "Tell them you love them." For some reason I think that any message about love seen by people sitting in their lonely cars in traffic and in rain, could have the power to mend so many things gone wrong in a person's day.

Naive? Perhaps. But I bet it would change something for the better.

Then the other night I came across this and it made me so happy. Too bad this isn't in Houston. It's actually painted by Stephen Powers along a Philly transit line. But don't you think we need stuff like this here? It would turn all the asshole drivers into something lovely.

Typo Toby Funke (Fyoon-Kay)

Here's a fun poster that I made during first semester Junior year. I dug it up out of a pile of old posters that I never photographed and decided to stick it in the blog completely out of order. I was in my super collage-y phase, as you can see. Typo Toby was the name of the paper toy critter I made as part of the project. He's based off of the New York typographer Tobias Frere-Jones. The real guy is a cool cat. When you say Tobias Frere-Jones in your head, does it remind you of Tobias Funke (David Cross) from Arrested Development? It does for me, and his face always pops into my head.

S*itting on the Dock of the Bay

I couldn't get this song out of my head during this project. I just kept repeating the hook over and over. Just sing the title and you'll see. Try it. Told you.

I got a lot of crap (I guess this pun is intended) for this opening page. I meant for title to look like it was waist deep in water, but instead the blue strike-through plays a trick on your eyes.

Poo.

Faint Mistakes (Otis Stage set)

You know how you're never completely satisfied with a certain project? This was one of them. I kept wanting to tweak it a just a little more, no matter how tedious it was. At some point you just have to stop though. I guess that point is called a deadline. The materials and tools I used for this stage were tweezers, toothpicks, superglue, a million Xacto blades and a crap-ton of shaky-hand syndrome. While I was finalizing the stage in studio I felt myself go numb and weak. It was the strangest feeling because I couldn't even smile even if I tried. I was about to faint. It was a combination of 24 hours of no rest, 5 hour energy drinks, super glue huffing and lack of food. I had Alyson run to the vending machine and she came back with salty nuts. Felt better, drove home (felt like my car was floating; I was definitely a road hazard.) and slept for a couple hours before heading back to finish up.

Feed the Birds

Feed the homeless. Feed the children. Feed the needy. Feed the birds, is what I say. And what better way to feed a poor bird than to let them feast in a modern, minimalistic, ranch-style feeder? It's laid back enough for a native Texan and trendy enough for bourgeois Northeners.

Program Cover Idea

Marks & Music. Otis Redding.

Working on an idea for the Otis Redding project. Here's the first draft.




Watercolor + digital type.

For the Birds

I'm making a bird kit for the Painted Bunting, a bird which resides in Texas. I'm going to make a booklet which has information about the bird along with a birdhouse and a packet of seeds. So far I've got a mock-up cover of the book and a couple of introductory pages. Don't know if this idea is going to stick. We'll see.

Dice Vase

I'm returning the SLR to school tomorrow, so I won't be able to photograph my stuff with a nice camera anymore. It really makes a difference.

Here's a project I did a couple of years ago. It was one of my favorites from back then. We were supposed to go to the dollar store and pick out things to turn into a product. I used balsa wood to make the box. Soooo easy to cut through that stuff! Love it mang.

Lecture Series Tickets

These are tickets I made to go along with a lecture series poster. Front and back.

Amateur sites.

I have just started working with Dreamweaver a couple of weeks ago. So far it is kicking my butt. I'm trying to finish up the You Orleans website by tomorrow morning and I only have two pages done. It's going to be a long night.