some print making

I decided to post up some photographs of the lino prints i made in class today. The first one is a regular black inked plate. After that, i had the time to get creative and try different techniques. I got to explore with different coloured inks (layering colours and putting down colours before hand), different papers (a brown paper bag and newsprint) , chine collé (a technique where you put paper onto your lino block and when you put it through the press it gets pressed onto your sheet of paper - i actually used brown paper towel as the paper.) The white on white piece is an embossment. So it the opposite of all the others in terms of composition because the "white" space becomes the design. I accomplished this by wetting the piece of paper that i was printing on, and then layering felts on top of my block and making the pressure very high on the printing press. In result, the pressure squeezes the paper into the cut out regions (which usually show up as white on regular inked compositions). It was fun to experiment with all the different techniques. I felt like i was in kindergarden again... well maybe not kindergarden..but it was nice to really experiment! which i dont get to do a much with the rest of my design work. If anyone has the opportunity to go printmaking i would totally suggest it!

Thats it for now!

Bisous

Book pages

One of my assignments in my type class has been executing book pages. We are given different themes, for example visual pun, upside down, reading up to down, and must execute these themes with typography in a 5 x 5 box. We get 5 - 7 themes at a time and will put together a book at the end of the semester.

For today, i had to execute the following:

OPEN LETTERSPACE

OVERLAPPING TYPE

VERY SMALL TYPE

LARGE TYPE

LETTERS WITH 1/2 MISSING

DISSOLVED INTO BACKGROUND

FORESHORTENED

So, I decided to use a nursery rhyme (an idea i started in my previous ones) to make the boxes a bit more interesting.

Here they are...they go in the following order: overlapping, dissolved into background, open letter spacing, very very small type, large type, foreshortened + 1/2 missing.

Here are the pictures from my new minolta. There are a few pictures from a lazy weekend - breakfast and lunch at the piers. There are also a few shots from my roof deck... it was tricky figuring out what shutter speed to use... the pictures came out with a cool effect.

some pictures

Here are some pictures from when i went to the brooklyn flea market back in october. It was a beautiful day, Christian and I biked over the brooklyn bridge, which was full out tourists (and scary when they were standing in the bikelane) but non the less absolutely beautiful.I am also posting a few pictures from my first roll of film from my new camera, a minolta SRt 100..that finally works!

Hot off the press; Breakfast at Tiffanys

I just finished working my first drafts of my photoshop assignment: redoing a vintage movie poster. I clearly chose Breakfast at Tiffany's. We had to create a modern version of the old poster... and keep the "vintage" feel. The first is the original. I have two versions of the second..one with the gradient from the bottom....but i think i am definitely liking the last the best.

Final Adds from Fine Arts

I posted my first add (based off a fine arts add) a few weeks ago and after my class critique, we decided that the concept wasn't translating into the visual (the car executed in half cubist). Instead, I created a dynamic image of the car bursting through the painting... i hesitated with this image because i didn't want it to be breaking the art... but rather born from it and continuing its legacy. I like the visual result, but im still questioning wether it looks as though the BMW is better than the painting... I reworked the copy so that it is more specific to the art work - ex: cubist= mastered geometry, futurist = mastered movement (and speed, and mechanism), and jackson pollack/ american modern art = innovation

keith haring for halloween

the inspiration... Keith Haring

my costume

Final 20 page magazine

In my first post, i wrote about my digital layout class project, which was a 20 page magazine. All of the copy, photographs and the shell was given to us. We had to work around the requirements, ex: pull quote for every story, starting two stories on thecover, having certain adds on certain pages, captions, credits for photographs and basically other things that are required on a "real" job. So, my concept was playing with the horizontal and the vertical.. and seeing how far i could push the reader... hence, why i have two horizontal spreads (the two cover stories) which would actually force the reader to turn the magazine. I wanted to try to create a modern type of magazine... something i would want to read with strange layouts and tons of white space to make it look airy and fresh. I thought I would like to read a magazine that isn't too saturated with information and visuals, like most things are today. So.. here it is.. the format is 11 x 17 so you can judge its size when you are looking at it and the topic was dance.