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New Year – New Outlook
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 | LIFE, MAIN, STUDIES, STUDIO 566 | No Comments
ok. stay tuned.
Gris Grimly and Me
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 | STUDIES | 2 Comments
My first assignment in graphic illustration is to do an illustration from a photograph I have taken based on the style of a famous illustrator.
I chose Gris Grimly.
Lance & Katie ala Grimly
And the professor said:
This is awesome, Penny. You did a good job of referencing Grimly while still creating something that is obviously your own.
*whew*
WTF – The Daily Question I ask Myself…
Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | LIFE, STUDIES | No Comments
Every day. WTF? I am not sure what the hell I am doing or am about anymore. Having said that… I was granted an “A” in Art History (good Lord I thought I would kill myself in that class).
I feel like a walking dichotomy – or hypocrisy – but I do not feel like a conundrum. Maybe I should stick to becoming a walking tirade. I will burn more calories that way. Maybe my face would clear up.
I am getting new ink soon. I also had a piece of one of my teeth chip off right at the gumline. This is from years of clenching my jaw… the basic manifestation of my utter hatred towards humanity. Let’s see… tattoo or dental work… hmmmm.
Here is what I am starting with:
I am having Miss Blue work her majik on this idea. It will end up being a V shape on the small of my back. Yes, I finally am getting my tramp stamp.
http://www.evillittleblue.com/
One Wicked Little Font
Monday, March 30th, 2009 | STUDIES | No Comments
Here is my Typography for the Mental final:
CLICK ME! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!
Anyway, throughout the course history (or the history of this course), I managed one specific comment from the professor that made me nearly crap my drawers:
Unforgiving superior work!
How does one manage “unforgiving superior work”? A very forgiving superior God.
THAT is the only explanation – logical or otherwise. I did not crap my pants, however. I did eat 5 Fig Newtons.
Experiments in Terror
Saturday, March 28th, 2009 | STUDIES | No Comments
Ahhhh yes – AS IF I could do THE BIG LEBOWSKI typographical justice…
Advanced Typography for the Mental
Sunday, March 8th, 2009 | STUDIES | No Comments
Before you I present typographical studies. I am not so thrilled with the first two. The third in this series, however, has a personal value on it for me.
Personal Monogram
Notice the faces? I thought I was being genius by arranging the counter and the negative space. Of course, I think I’m genius when I manage to roll out of bed. That takes a lot of skill for me. It disturbs me that it is reminiscent of PBS. It seems it doesn’t actually detract too much, I guess. Great, now I am going to obsess.
godley beer. I’m not sure what it wrong with me, other than I drank a couple of pints. I started with the lower case “g” and managed to come up with some ideas for the image. I chose a font that didn’t have a bowl & loop – although that was interesting to play with also. Then I put a devil’s tail onthe “Y” and that was it. I chucked all the G work in favor of marrying the tail.
I splattered RED as the primary focus color totally against my better judgement. I was commended for making such a “bold statement.” I gave an exhale of relief and continued on my fontabulous journey.
42
These are pages from 2 different versions of the Guttenberg 42 line Bible. The idea was to take a famous historical document and typographically deconstruct it. The Gutenberg Bible was written based on St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate. Since I love vulgairity – I figured it was a good choice. Do I still refer to Jerome as a saint even though I am not Catholic? Wasn’t Jerome a Jackson 5?
I could not make out the red Rubrics so I jumped directly to Genesis I:I.
The text is:
in precipio creativ dues celum et terram.
In the beginning God created heaven and earth.
My all time favorite Bible story: CREATION. The concept that God spoke and the world was. The power and significance of words is communicated in this story. Never think graphic design is not creative or an artform or powerful. OK, perhaps I didn’t change the world with any of the pizza boxes I arted – nor will anyone’s psyche be shook when they order Vito’s (its called FUNCTIONAL ART DAMMIT! Without the “dammit” though. Anyway – you KNOW what I am saying.
in the beginning
denotive, pictorial graphic symbols
Saturday, January 24th, 2009 | STUDIES | No Comments
The mother of assignments so far in the graphic symbolism class. I was to make denotive pictorial graphic symbols that were universal and transcend language and my own cultural influences.
Apparently, I was successful.
EDUCATION-WAR-FAMILY-RELIGION-TECHNOLOGY
The three symbols that were most successful were FAMILY, TECHNOLOGY and RELIGION… altho the Prof stated that my color choice for religion could have been better as the colors are battling each other in the design. My EDUCATION was described as a basic illustration but still worked and that war was also done fairly successfully…
Prof’s Advice: your first idea is generally the most “comfortable” image; the one we have all been exposed to, so throw it out. I also read in an article to keep the number of ideas minimal so that one can work on making one strong design as opposed to many weak ones. So, I tossed the first idea – made many thumbnail sketches (Milton Glaser suggests pencil on paper because of the mind, eye, hand relationship)… then I picked the one that resonated strongest with me.
The FAMILY logo was labeled the strongest.
I am gratful.
A Good Logo Will
Saturday, January 17th, 2009 | STUDIES | No Comments
A quote I came across in my reading:
Will a good logo be lost in a quagmire of a creative department that is understaffed or poorly managed?
BAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHA!!
::wipes tear from eye::
Art – What is it?
Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | STUDIES | No Comments
I eagerly anticipated graphic symbolism. I am still excited about it. In my outside readings on the subject I ran across this quote:
All true art is symbolical. Art which is merely naturalistic or representative, which merely copies Nature without interpreting its mysteries, is unworthy of man’s powers, for the function of the Artist is to lift up Nature by revealing the Divine Meaning which is to be found even in the simplest of natural objects.
This is the 3rd time I have hit this. Maybe it has hit me. Ivan and Paul BOTH have sat me down talking to me (very seriously) about this topic. “Where is the challenge in that?” they said.
I am DEFINITELY at a new place in my life. I am DEFINATELY going in a new direction. My job is to reveal the divine meaning which is to be found even in the simplest of natural objects.
Yeah… I don’t feel too much pressure there.