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one post. and only because this is an example of ultimate design.

this guy was such a Wes Anderson fan, he created a whole Wes Anderson Film Festival. and he didn’t stop at a simple “it’s a film festival, come.”

he created a record. including designing the record sleeve:

DVDs and their cases:

he also took care of advertising:

and merchandise:

as well as tickets and programs for the event:

with your whole package to arrive in a crate box:

and much much more.
unfortunately, it wasn’t for real. there is no wonderful festival and i was sad to learn i could not purchase my own Wes Anderson Festival kit. but it was still an amazing project and one i’ll keep in mind in the future when designing what ever it is i design.

i’m back

all right, i’m back.

after my first day back in class i’ve finally gotten around to posting here again. i already have an everyday blog, but i’m going to use this one specifically like a sketchbook to fill with inspiration for my new classes [and hopefully new work at some point]

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starting tomorrow

cityscape

this year for christmas i decided to make my presents. i knew i really wanted to draw/make something for each person, so i decided on CDs. i created playlists for each of my 5 people and then designed the cover art to go with it.

originally i was going to do something similar to the music project, and just pick one song to illustrate. however i came up with this idea pretty much a week before christmas, so i ended up drawing cities instead.

 

these first two were for my cousin. she was the only one to get two CD’s, as one was originally her birthday present.

her city was similar to the one i did for my mom, but was a slightly bigger town (i had somewhere like Charlotte in mind). therefore it has apartment buildings as well skyscraper office buildings and a hospital.

the second CD.

since she was getting two CD’s, i wanted the covers to relate to each other somehow. so i made one big drawing and cut it in half.

these are the two covers together.

 

this CD was for my brother. his was the only non-cityscape of the 5 covers. i wanted it to be like the downtown family neighborhood, so i based it off the neighborhood where Peter Parker lives in the Spiderman movies. the family-ness was shown with the skateboarding kids, and his was the only one with people.

 

this CD was for my mom.

her city is the small downtown type. it was the first one i put trees in, and has more apartment buildngs and little shops than the others.

this was for my dad.

i knew i wanted his to be a bigger, busy city, so i based the cover off a picture i took in Philadelphia. i tried to add to the big and busy aspect by incorporating the highway as well.

musical

this is my piece for the music assignment.

i used Chaussures Francaises by The Stevedores.
you can listen to the song here

i really enjoyed this project. i liked that it was challenging; both in choosing the music and then how best to represent it, but i’m rather happy with my final product. i especially enjoyed seeing and hearing everyone elses project [probably more that my own], and i plan to try this project again on my own time.

details for assignment here

googler

this is from the google images and mylar collage.

i thought this was a good project, however i’m not very happy with my final project. i’d like to try it again with a different diebenkorn photo to see how that’d go. overall i thought it was a fun assignment, and i liked doing it, i just didn’t like my final piece.

details for assignment here

sculptin

this is from the wood sculpture day

i didn’t really like this assignment. i personally had a hard time coming up with something creative to contribute to my group’s sculpting. i liked the second two pieces out of the three. i just didn’t really get very much else out of the assignment.

details for assignment here

chess-en

this is from the checkers/chess project.

i really really liked this project.
the funny thing for me, was were doing something similar in my drawing class the same week we did this – working on getting different shades of gray in charcoal, or rather how to. and this assignment was much more fun than what we did in my drawing class. i also like how everyone’s turned out when we’d finished our games.

details for assignment here

dieben again

this is the diebenkorn replica project

i worked with cris on this one and i really enjoyed this assignment.
i’ve come to like charcoal this semester, and it was good to have something to copy to draw in stead of having to just make something up. i also liked that we had to create a painting with charcoal, and i enjoyed the challenge.

details for assignment here

gale

i had to share this
i found it on at this fantastic blog today

it’s a mix of the old christmas movies animation +old batman movie cheesy-ness and impact sounds
it’s amazing and i can’t wait to find it on dvd

carl

just wanted to share  this amazing movie i got to see tonight

as well as this coming-soon one

and today’s asofterworld’s pretty great too

happy thanksgiving break!