Personal Font

For TMP graphic design we created our own personal font and then used it to create some sort of an image to compliment our fonts.
My font ended up being a sharp, angular type with inferred type just as important as what is there. I accompanied my font with a composition inspired by the band Mute Math. The text is from their song Stare At the Sun and reads,

"And we stare at the sun
but we never see anything there
Just a glare has become
all that we'll ever see there
And we stare at the sun"

The image it is overlain on is of the band. I created 4 different compositions of the text over the image with the image different in two of them and arranged them behind the main orange image with the words over it. I arranged them to fan out from the main orange square and to get at the hopeless repetitiveness of searching for meaning where there may be no meaning.


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Trash Pants, Trash Pants, What you gonna do?

I received some great comments from the Trash Pants Company and they were interested in the trash pants I made. They are totally different types of pants, you know, seeing as how their pants are actually made of of fabric not milk bottles. But anyways, they directed me to one of their youtube videos they had made as I might be interested. It's pretty funny.



Thanks for looking and thanks to Leigh at Trash Pants for your interest!

Free From and Structure

So in my big updating day (sorry it's been so long, i've been rather busy/lazy), I've got some graphic design work to show. This was for my TMP graphic design class. The whole assignment was about, again, figure ground work and a heavily contrasting interplay of colors and objects.

We used letter forms to create what was supposed to be a highly abstracted composition at the final print. I used the phrase "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" from Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. I picked the primary colors red, green, and blue. I really wanted the whole thing to blend together when looked at, your eye is not supposed to be able to find one area, color group, or letter form to really focus on. I really like my result.


I decided to try this technique on a possible wedding invitations or program cover for Kara and my wedding. The phrase is "Your my best friend and I love you." from a Weezer song. I tried to make this one a bit more legible, but it's still a bit illegible in places and if we use something like this, I'd clean it up a bit more. I was also thinking of redesigning it so that there is a large section of one color, like if I made the L in love wider, and putting there the specifics about the wedding, date, location and such.
I picked the colors based off our planned wedding colors, light navy blue, cream, and light yellow.

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The Presentation of the Trash Pants

So a few weeks ago , i presented my trash pants to my class. I had designed them to inhibit my movement so as to make me more aware of how much trash I created day to day so I had the class follow me on a walk. We went down the hall to the media center where they sell coffee and bagels among other foodstuffs and mediastuffs. I bought a bagel. Turned out to be a flavor I wasn't to fond of (cherry something). I bought the bagel because I wanted to do something that everyone could relate to on an everyday basis, buying a snack. I don't know if everyone in my class got it, but I heard a few "Oh, I get it".

I'm pretty happy with how the pants and their presentation came off, the assignment was to create an extension of your body and I'm not sure if I totally created a physical extension, but I believe that I was successful in creating an extension of your awareness of your body and what one person can create inadvertently.

Walking down the hall to the media center at the end of the hallway.


Buying my bagel.

Exhibiting the lack of range of motion. I couldn't sit down.

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