Monday, December 28, 2009

werepresentthemonotypeguild

postcard

A postcard for a direct mail campaign for the Monotype Guild of New England

**UPDATE**

version 2 :
I went with the same typeface, but created my own monotype print to serve as the background graphic instead of the illustration of the printing press. Also, the dimensions of the piece were brought up from 6.0" x 4.0" to 8.5" x 6.0"



**UPDATEUPDATE**

version 3 :
Needed to make it friendlier. Added color, switched to Helvetica.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

suggestive.



I was finishing a makeup assignment for school in which we had to create a music review site that used dreamweaver templates (a class on how php can be used to accomplish the same goal would have been more useful). Since we're not being graded on the design but rather our proficiency at producing and implementing dreamweaver templates, I was getting bored with the project. As a break from coding, I spent some time playing around with the brand, trying to create something that poked fun at pitchfork without directly referencing it... as well something that was juuuuust suggestive enough to make my professor uncomfortable while he was grading it.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

uncomfortable.




mildly upsetting/ sarcastic & oblique statement in helvetica over out of context photograph/ illustration. adultswim.com used to do stuff like this on their web site and i always thought it was kind of funny.

"Shoveling Snow"



Here's a highly utilitarian project I just completed for my legitimately wonderful (and well-funded) clients at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Finding and applying the actionscript necessary to animate the snowflakes in the background was a minor challenge. I'm not exactly proud of this piece (the text is still mostly unresolved, and I managed to use that aged print texture AGAIN), but I certainly hate it less than most of the cheaply produced holiday e-cards I see out there...

The snowflake is an arrangement of seratonin molecules... a chemical partly responsible for producing feelings of well-being and happiness in the brain.