Design Something Every Day: Day 4: Russell: Finder of Lost Idols

Day 4 brings me back to one of my favorite muses, Survivor of course. Here’s a little sort of vintage styled poster highlighting the arch villain from the TV franchise, Russell Hantz, better known to fans as Evil Russell. In the show he had a knack for finding idols, which would keep him from being kicked out of the game. That explains the tiki idol in the poster. Since he was considered evil, the stylized flames seem appropriate.

Evil Russell

Tools: Adobe Illustrator
Links: Russell Got Screwed, a site defending the honor of this often maligned cast away.

Design Something Every Day: Day 3: Purimitar

For Day three I tried to imagine if the Na’vi in the film Avatar had given up their Animism in favor of Judaism and were shaking their groggers at Purim. This was actually created for the upcoming Purim Carnival at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, but I thought it would fit here, since it is something I designed today.

If the Na'vi celebrated Purim

Tools: Adobe PhotoShop
Sources: www.moviewallpaper.net, google image search

Design Something Everyday Day 2: Retro Rupert

Day two and here is  a retro styled poster for Rupert Boneham, a contestant on the CBS reality show Survivor: Pearl Islands, Survivor All Stars & the upcoming Survivor Heroes vs Villains.

Tools: Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop, Wacom Tablet.

Link: Rupert’s Kids, Survivor Contestant Rupert Boneham’s non-profit group to help at risk youth. A worthy cause.

Design Something Everyday Day 1: Volcano

I read the great post by Jad Limcaco on Smashing Magazine called “Design Something Every Day!” It is a very inspiring, if not daunting idea, to design something every day, but it is a call I would like to take up. I wanted to do it in January, but some projects and a hint of fear kept me from attempting this project.

Since today is my birthday I thought this would be a good time to start the project, so beginning today, February 3rd I begin my year of daily designing. Wish me luck. So far the hardest part is limiting myself to only 15-45 min on these designs. I just want to keep “plussing” the design. So here’s day one, the interior of a volcano.

Design Something Every Day: Day 1: Volcano

Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Colors: kuler.adobe.com
Source: Volcano information: GeoBytesGCSE