Posts under ‘Design Something EveryDay’

I found a great arti­cle in Esquire wherein book jacket designer extra­or­di­naire Chip Kidd dis­cusses the think­ing and meth­ods that under­lie some of his recent work. One typog­ra­phy trick  that is par­tic­u­larly use­ful is how he cre­ated the dis­tressed text for his cover of Cor­mack McCarthy’s The Road:
The font is one of the old­est tricks […]

Design Some­thing Every­day 14/365

This was a design based on one of my favorite poems, Ulysses, by Alfred Lord Ten­nyson. The poem is very mov­ing, and has the great hero Ulysses (Odysseus in Greek) at the end of his life feel­ing the urge to strive, explore and set sail once again. That is an urge we […]

I was at the park with my kids play­ing in the sand box and I recalled this quote from Chip Kidd’s won­der­ful novel The Cheese Mon­keys: A Novel in Two Semes­ters: “Design is pur­pose­ful plan­ning… Graphic design is the form those plans will take.” Between the juice boxes and push­ing kids on the swing I […]

Design Some­thing Every­day: 12/365
Here’s a lit­tle sketch for my design some­thing every day project. Imag­ine your­self as one of clever Odysseus’ men in the cave of the Cyclops, and one-eyed Polyphe­mus, son of Posei­don, reaches down to devour you, or as Samuel But­ler grue­somely put it in his trans­la­tion:
The cruel wretch vouch­safed me not one […]

Design Some­thing Every­day 11/365: In honor of my love of maps, infor­ma­tion graph­ics and Vir­gil, I decided to imag­ine Aeneas jour­ney as if it were a sub­way map. So enjoy. Don’t for­get your sub­way token’s for Charon!

I have always loved maps, as a child I would look at our world atlas and pon­der the far […]

Another “CD Cover Design Game” In hind­sight it prob­a­bly didn’t work as well as I would of liked, but blogs are for exper­i­men­ta­tion. Though I must admit I am rather fond of the type­face, Caflisch Script Pro. It is a very beau­ti­ful type­face based on Designer Max Caflisch’s hand­writ­ing! That is great pen con­trol.
Caflisch Script […]

An homage to one of my favorite movies, David Lean’s mas­ter­piece Lawrence of Ara­bia, done in moti­va­tional com­puter desk­top wall paper style. A film that was truly meant for the big screen.

Design Some­thing Every Day 8/ 365
I read about this along time ago on the Face­book Group: Cre­ate your Own CD Cover. I like to call it the “Ran­dom CD Cover Game.” By har­ness­ing the power of the inter­net, it is a way for design­ers to prac­tice design­ing some­thing every­day.
I like to imag­ine when play­ing this game […]

Another non-timely post, I’ll have to get bet­ter at that. This one inspired some­what by two loves of mine, Amer­i­can Foot­ball and Zom­bies, though maybe not in that par­tic­u­lar order. I drew a sketch of a Zom­bie and played a bit in Illus­tra­tor and Pho­to­Shop to cre­ate the effect of an unstop­pable Zom­bie horde. Which […]

I’ve been work­ing on stuff every­day, but I haven’t been post­ing daily, so I’ve got a bunch of stuff to put up.
The first of these is a dig­i­tal doo­dle of a song from the won­der­ful 1949 Rogers and Ham­mer­stein play South Pacific, Bali Hai. I was inspired by the pro­duc­tion I saw last week­end at Seattle’s […]