2011.3/52

A couple weeks ago I took advantage of a gloomy morning to capture the bar down the street from where I grew up. There were times in the past where it was notorious for being rough — so I played up an underlying sinister feeling in my photography.

This is freakin creepy but it's really cool. I've been wanting to create a film based upon "Das Kabinet der Doktor Caligari" for years. I need to clean out the garage and get crackin!

Another week kicking out some sweet graphic jams. Making sweet logos using visual wit, tons of custom lettering and pretty cycling kit designs. This week I'm also pouring some out for my dead concepts — something that worked in my head but not quite on paper.

The middle logo is for my wife whose bike racin' nickname is B-jet short for Bridget.

A couple quick identity sketch concepts for an excellent photographer and friend. I hope to make a lovely mark and a slightly intrusive watermark. The bottom captures the idea of a shutter/bike wheel in a pretty color wheel — this might look lovely with overlapping transparent shapes.

2011.2/52

For my second week/art piece of 2011 I created identity variations on the Educational Foundation for the Colorado National Guard. I love this part of the process — creating simple solutions that are very effective and use a combination of symbols to create a new meaning to creating something abstract and poetic.

The logo I featured is a book (closed, as if finished, symbolic of graduation), tilted upwards for optimism and also to symbolize flight. I created dynamic energy within the icon which begins to imply the E anf F letterforms.

In future rounds of work I hope to create custom logo-typography as well.

This video combines moving images with crap printing techniques, two of my favorite things. I might swipe some of these techniques for a future video.

This is nerdy but I really dig my new shoes from Suacony, the Jazz model with Oktoberfest Bicentennial theme. Nice attention to detail, the blue and white relating to the Bavarian flag and there is a maß of beer on the insole and a boot of beer on the tongue! Certain material, like the heel and the shoelaces are imitation leather to kick it old school. And nice hits of gold to boot. Nothing is over the top and screaming wannabe German.

A trip to the wine and beer store always is a bit inspirational.



The intrigue of these Alpha Box and Dice wine labels caught my eye. They are designed by an Aussie firm named Mash.








I'm really digging the ornate vintage logotypes of Molly Dooker, Velvet Glove and The Bruery. I want to pursue being able to create flourishy type with mega ligatures this year.




I also love the old school Parisienne feel of St. Germain.

2011.1/52
I was inspired to make this "Kings of Cross" poster after attending a cyclocross race at the old Kingswood Golf Course last weekend. I love the image of a King holding a bike over his head while attempting to clear a barrier, kind of Picasso in its bending of perspective and Escher in its symmetry. I drew the playing card inpired art with sharpie and scanned it in to arrange the elements.

You can find more of my posters at Flickr.

I love hand-drawing my typography. It harkens back to the old days of hand-painted signs, and photostat logos and lettering. Sometimes I trace these in Illustrator and clean them up, but other times I use them in their rough state with all their humanistic flaws and irregularities.

I did a bunch of typefaces — some inspired by the title cards in Jean Luc Godard's films, some by old art nouveau perfume packaging.