monday, december 28th, 2009
Finally got this mofo wrapped up. Check out the entire selection of Elektrotrash posters here!
I'm now in the planning stages of my next series. I'd like to talk more about it, but all I'll say for the moment is that it involves time travel.
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tuesday, december 22nd, 2009
This time around, I wanted to let the detail of each glyph speak for itself in an otherwise simplistic layout. I've also had a sudden interest in silkscreening lately, which I think influenced the look of this piece a little. This is actually the fourth Elektrotrash poster I've done so far, so it's safe to say that this series has virtually zero stylistic consistency. I'll be posting the rest in the coming days.
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sunday, december 20th, 2009
The last few days have yielded a creative output that can only be described as hella mo' shit, which means I've already got multiple new Elektroclash posters to put up. I feel like their conceptual paint is still drying, however, so I'll be waiting until tomorrow before sharing.
In the meantime, I thought it'd be fun to post a couple crops from the previous poster at full, 300dpi resolution. Check it out:
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thursday, december 17th, 2009
Inspiration struck and I got this little guy knocked out way faster than I expected. My intent for this series of posters as a whole is to feel like traditional, almost minimal typographical designs, but I was compelled to wheel out some 70's glam on this one for whatever reason. It's a totally different direction than I had planned, but I like keeping things a little unpredictable. Enjoy! :)
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thursday, december 17th, 2009
After about a week and a half of continual, back-breaking labor (by which I mean 90% screwing around and maybe 10% actual work), I've finished the complete Elektrotrash alphabet. With this type specimen out of the way, I'm starting work on a series of typography posters that put the letterforms to use in various awesome ways. I'll absolutely, definitely have the first of them posted by the end of the weekend, but remember: I am also a liar. So it might not be until early next November. Who knows.
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tuesday, december 15th, 2009
Elektrotrash is my latest typography project, a "found typeface" of sorts that derives letterforms from what looks like an assortment of retro electronic and musical junk (as well as other more random things). I have a series of posters planned around it, which I'll be posting as I produce them next week.
As always, everything is a composition of 3D, vector and bitmaps. In other words, except for certain elements of the textures, it's all digital.
For now, here are the first four letters. I'll be posting the complete set in another day or two, followed by usage examples. I also have some rather unorthodox ideas for conveying punctuation and emphasis, which I hope to explore in the coming days.
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thursday, december 10th, 2009
My day job was awesome enough to buy a seat for me and a few others at Edward Tufte's incredible lecture on the presentation of visual information. If you've never heard of the guy, do yourself a favor and check him out immediately. Some of his ideas may seem a little counter intuitive at first, but there's no doubt in my mind that he's a visionary and deserves to be studied by every designer working today (as well as a lot of non-designers).
As a lecturer, he's engaging, has a great sense of humor, and clearly knows his stuff backwards and forwards. Additionally, we were given copies of all four of his books, awesomely packaged in what looks like a big cardboard lunchbox with his trademark Gill Sans type all over it. Totally badass.
He also rather brazenly showed us his first edition copies of books like Galileo's The Starry Messenger and the first English translation of Euclid's The Elements of Geometry (!). It was inconceivable to me that he'd be waving around such priceless artifacts to make his points, but I found his explanation quite admirable: for the small price of a little wear and tear, he's been able to share these remarkable pieces of history with audiences that would likely never see them otherwise—over 200,000 in his estimation. This is a guy who clearly has a genuine passion not only for the subject itself, but for the act of sharing it.
Anyway, the real value of Tufte's work lies in how directly and aggressively it challenges a designer's notion of visual information and the way it's displayed. I can't say I'm entirely convinced [yet] by all of his ideas, but I'm on board with the vast majority and even find those few questionable details intriguing in their own right.
He has the ability to strip an idea down to such a raw state that seeing it is almost exhilarating; it's so fresh and unique that it's like rediscovering design all over again. I've never been so engaged by something that really doesn't amount to much more than plain text and lines.
Lastly, I was surprised to learn that he's an artist as well, focusing on highly abstract structures made of stainless steel and, in some cases, re-purposed industrial machinery from farms, power plants and the like.
Clearly one of the more significant minds of our generation. I highly recommend seeing him if the chance comes along, and consider his books to be required reading. Also, he'd bear a striking resemblance to Ben Kingsley if he shaved his head.
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thursday, december 3rd, 2009
The awesome people at Advanced Photoshop covered me in their Insight column this month (issue 63, pages 42-43). The issue was available on newsstands in Europe through November and hits the States this month. I'm not exactly sure why they're a month ahead but I'd be willing to bet it has something to do with the Large Hadron Collider.
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