Light and Movement

December 14th, 2009

budapest_bridge_night

I was asked to create an identity/web design for a Leadership Weekend event coming up in January 2010. The theme for the weekend is moving communities toward mission, so I decided to focus on the visual aspects of light and movement to create the design. I contacted a friend of mine who is an amazing photographer and requested a photo that would capture what I was looking for. He supplied the fantastic photo above.

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Here is what the photo looked like after a bit of cropping and transforming. The goal was to communicate light and movement in an abstract sort of way.

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And this is a screenshot of the final homepage from leadershipweekend.org. I provided the final design elements to the church that is holding the event and one of their staff members put the actual site together.

Messy Illustration

December 4th, 2009

oil_can

There are all kinds of illustration styles out there; clean, messy, modern, retro, etc… I’ve been experimenting lately with taking photos of common objects, then hand-inking them in a “messy” sort of style, and then scanning, vectorizing, and coloring them. Above is the original picture of an old 3-IN-ONE can, followed by the the hand-inked version, and finally the vectorized/colored version.

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Here are a few more random items I experimented with using the “messy style”.

Objectified.

November 30th, 2009

objectified

If you didn’t catch the Independent Lens premier of Objectified last Tuesday, you can check your local listings to see if it will be available again. The program offered some great food for thought regarding the design of objects we interact with on a daily basis. One of the central issues revolved around whether or not objects should be built to last and “wear in” as opposed to “wear out”.  You can also take the quiz to find out which object best captures your personality. I took the quiz and it said I’m a “Coca-Cola Bottle”. Funny, I don’t even like Coke. I wonder what that means?