Black Friday!

Black Friday was CRAZY! People go a little nutty on Black Friday.... My hope is that I will never have to work in retail on Black Friday ever again. Here's a jiggy doodle I made to describe the day.

Animal Topiaries

I created this little tree friend for that weekly drawing thing. He's an animal topiary! I was thinking of drawing a picture of a tree about to eat a little boy, but I ran out of time and drew this guy instead. I feel like I should just call my blog that other weekly drawing thing since all I post are drawings for that blog...but none the less, I love my little blog and will continue to post, even if this is all I post each week.

Mountain Man

This is my interpretation of an old man of the mountains. He's a giant that knows all and has many stories to tell of the vast and dangerous mountain passes. This is another drawing for that weekly drawing thing. The word given was mountain.

Imaginary Deity

Here's another drawing I did for that weekly drawing thing. As my mind wandered and swayed to and fro, a little flying king pig popped into my head.

That Weekly Drawing Thing

This is another drawing I did for that weekly drawing thing. It's now an official blog! The description was One-Horned Beast (mythical, extinct, and otherwise). Check it out! There's a lot of great ones on the site...and there will be many more to come, so stay tuned!

Anatomy of a Garment Poster

Here's a poster I did for the Seattle Central Apparel Design Portfolio Show. They told us the name of the show and that we could do whatever we want. With the name being Anatomy of a Garment I thought it would be sweet to have it look like an old 50's vintage blueprint of how to make a garment that someone pulled out of a drawer in their parents basement.

Sketch Book Doodles

I just bought a sketch book so that I could draw random doodley woodles. Here are a couple I made during my free time on Spring Break. The first is a bit random and the second one is a picture of my cat(if he was a doctor ... that wore glasses ... and wore clothes ... and stood like a human).

Synesthesia-My Experimental Typeface

My class is having an experimental type show on April 8th which is going to be incredible. Here's the blurb and all of the characters I made for the show.


SYNESTHESIA:
My x-type is based off my observations of my wife’s recent discovery of her synesthesia. For my typeface I used her descriptions of each letter form and illustrated them the way I perceive them. Here’s a brief description of the condition.

Synesthesia—From the words syn, “together,” aisthesis, “sensation”—is a neurologically-based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. People who report such experiences are known as synesthetes. In my wife’s case she has two different forms of synesthesia.

In one of the most common forms of synesthesia, grapheme, color synesthesia, individual letters of the alphabet and numbers (collectively referred to as graphemes), are “shaded” or “tinged” with a color. While different individuals usually do not report the same colors for all letters and numbers, studies with large numbers of synesthetes find some commonalities across letters (e.g., A is likely to be red).

Ordinal-linguistic personification (or personification for short) is a form of synesthesia in which ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days, months and letters are associated with personalities and genders.

There you have it! A very interesting yet strange condition. It was a lot of fun drawing these descriptions and I hope you enjoy viewing these little characters as much as enjoyed making them. I especially enjoyed the unknowns. Which one are you?!?

Barf Bold

I found this typeface while looking for inspiration for my experimental type project. I'm hoping my project will look a lot like this one ......... chuckle. With a name like barf bold how can you go wrong!

Great Stuff!

Here's some sweet inspiration from Esther Aarts, a Dutch Designer. It makes me happy. Sometimes if I don't wash myself every once and a while I develop this same problem.(Actually I believe this one was called spell checkin.)




He also does some amazing stuff with hand drawn type.