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I heart smart: version 2
Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Did a hand rendered version of the brain this time with more accurate shadows and added highlights. I’m much happier with this one. Hopefully I can whip this up in time for APE.
Button Concept: I heart smart.
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I scribbled this down ages ago and it’s far too awesome of a concept that no one has thought of it already. But I googled and I googled and it doesn’t seem to have been done before! So I whipped it up in Illustrator and you see the results above.
I thought it might work as a 1″ button. Would you wear it? Would you buy it? Would you look at it on a con table, smile at it’s cuteness and walk away? I’ll have some done up for APE if I still like it in the morning. But the yellow might need to change to something else, not sure if it’s working for me. What colour compliments brains?
Business Card Design
Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments
After a lot of back and forth and numerous redesigns, I think I’ve come up with a business card. A nice and clean design on the front with minimal wording and some experimental design. But on the back things are a bit messier, a behind the scenes feel with sketches and some finished work in the grey area being pulled into the clean area that is the House of Scott.
I was pleasantly surprised how well some of the scans fit into the concept. Nothing was drawn specifically for the card, they’re all old sketches and designs I found in a single sketchbook! The only thing I might look into is rounding the corners during printing.
I’ve also been really interested in the potential of QR Codes lately and thought it would be interesting to try and work them into the design. After playing around with them I have to admit they’re tough to design with! Needing high contrast to be read by a camera, you can’t change their colours or ghost them out to bring a background through. No partial cropping or distortion either.
I have no idea what kind of minimum size they need to be to be read but I’m hoping a half inch will be all right. I can’t even check since my cell phone is so old and crappy I can’t even download a reader for it to confirm that they work! I guess that’s the price that needs to be paid to push the boundaries and limits of design.
I could use your input on the design, let me know if you like, or what you think isn’t working. Let me know what you think.
Designing for the worst of clients: myself
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Legend has it that the Pope once dispatched a courier asking Giotto di Bondone to submit a drawing proving his worth as an artist. In response, Giotto took a brush and with some red paint drew a perfect circle which he sent to the Pope.
In every field there seems to be some hallmark, a rite of passage in which, if achieved, that practioner proves his worth. And for a Designer, that perfect circle is successfully designing for themselves. I don’t think I’ve ever met a designer that’s every been truly happy with their own logo, their website, stationary, demo reel etc. Others may see it as spectacular, but the designer only sees what could be better.
I’m finally getting around to designing some business cards and the logo to go on them. We’ll see if I like this one for more than a day. I’m pretty happy with it right now. But to save space, I’ll continue blathering under the cut.
Uniqlock
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | Links | No Comments
From the fashion label Uniqlo.
There’s a little volume bar at the bottom, a much better experience with sound.
Find the full Uniqlock site here.
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