Chip Kidd

The Chip Kidd lecture was so fun. He is very inspirational to a hopeful graphic designer such as myself. I found him really interesting and despite some technical difficulties in the beginning and a move over to Tyler. I found it interesting that the things he created and thought would sell really didnt as much as the ideas he had that he wasnt so sure about. I found him animated and fun and really loved his lecture.

The real cattails

Morph of cattails and cat's tails 1 2 3 4

Where do unicorn lollipops come from?

Yay another Morph with horses and lollipops

Pigs can fly

Pig from this link

Geese image from this link

Scan and color via photoshop

These fish were originally hand drawn then scanned into photoshop where i added color and the texture in the background

Landscape Lighting; Composing the Night Landscape

Tonight I attended a Lecture at The Waterworks Restaurant about Landscape lighting and design by Janet Lennox Moyer. The lecture consisted of Janet showing slides of her work and explaining how she creates a composition in a night scene using light. Above are not examples of her work, they are simply the types of fixtures she uses. Janet uses lght to "direct the viewer" to a "visual destination" where she concentrates more light to highlight it. She believes that it is very important to use both a down light and an up light when lighting a point of interest. The down light acts as a softer natural light, it acts like sunlight. Up light is used to add drama to the form. When both lights are used together the lighting designer has the ability to hide unwanted attributes of the night lanscape such as neighbors house or garbage cans. Janet is able to show her client how she wants to light the landscape using photoshopped photographs of an originally daytime scene. 

 It was a very interesting lecture and very inspiring as well. Examples of Janet's work is on her website, www.janmoyerdesign.com.

Ribbon Candy Curls...

I'm not a fan of this piece... I'm planning on redoing this project, it just didn't turn out how i had imagined it unfortunately.