Monday January 23, 2012

First draft of a logo designed for a brand of pepper powder. 

The name of the product is "Greggie's Almost Poison Pepper Powder".

          

 

Tuesday January 24, 2012

Series of photographs taken with a digital SLR examining various textures

and angles of a hollow chamber within a burned out tree trunk. 

Wednesday January 25, 2012

Two tone portrait commissioned by a Norman family.The painting was 

originally vectored from posterized photographs in Adobe Illustrator, then 

transferred onto a 16"x20" canvass and hand painted with Plaka.

 

Original photographs

                                        


Thursday January 26, 2012


5x7" Sketch

Photo Crop Exercise

This crop improves the composition of the photograph by focusing on the pair of subjects in the foreground, and eliminating the non-essential pair in the left third of the photograph. The photo's composition is broken into thirds by the the subjects in the lower third and the horizon in the upper third. 

This crop improves on the original photograph by focusing on the unique architectural features of the building. Removing the tourists in the foreground forces the viewer to focus only photo's subject. 

Cropping out the third party who is not engaging the camera like the other two subjects removes a distracting element to the composition. 

 

This crop emphasizes B.B. King's Blues Club by removing the distracting elements across the street, as well as the pedestrian. By removing all signs of activity from the photograph the street gains a ghostly aesthetic quality.

This crop is en example of how an abstract composition can be pulled from an ordinary snapshot.  Before the crop, all visual interest throughout the composition was cluttered by random placement of subjects. By removing all individuals from the photograph, the composition itself.

By removing the large dead space of road from the lower right of the original photo, the photos composition flows much more smoothly. 

10 x 10 exercise

Brain Storm of ideas and concepts for 

an affordable organic energy drink marketed 

towards well-off twenty-year-olds.

10x10 grid of sketches for project concepts. 

LO(W)CAL concept

This concept for a low calorie Organic energy drink consists of an octagonal aluminum can with informational 

graphics designed for each panel of the can. The beverage is produced from high quality organic ingredients grown on privately owned local farms. In order to stay true to its name, Lo(w)cal will be produced regionally throughout the U.S. assuring all organic ingredients in the drink are locally grown.

Clarity concept 


The design for the Clarity concept mimics the slender cylindrical design that has become a recognizable  template for many energy drinks on the market. Unlike its competitors however, the container is produced from thin transparent plastic instead of aluminum, infusing both the product's name and its appearance into one. The name of the beverage also refers to the the clarity of ingredients contained within the drink, promising consumers that everything on the label is a product the masses could easily identify. A small silk sunflower adds visual appeal to the otherwise minimalist design, acts as the brands trademark, as well as providing a small souvenir for the consumer.

Sprout concept 


The Sprout concept's design is based the teardrop shape often found in nature. The bottle features a seed shaped cutout through the upper central portion of the container, also acting as a handhold as indicated by the finger grips along the contours of the bottle. The concept behind this design is conscious of the audience most likely to consume organic products, and promotes the demographic by including a small packet of organic seeds with each energy drink, encouraging consumers to produce their own organic goods. 

Two tone Bob Dylan translation. 

























Originally vectored in Adobe Illustrator and transferred to a 16"x20" canvass. 
Hand painted with black Plaka. Here is a link to the original photograph: Bob+Dylan.jpg

test blog post

This is my first Visual Journal blog post. Here is a link to the main class blog for Visual Communications II.