more stencils anyone?

Hairstyles Galore!

Here is a poster of all famous music hairstyles.

This is for you Katie!

food stencils

some stencils i did this weekend using my tuna icon on sushi and the javan rhino on a steak.

Notable Haircuts Poster

http://www.etsy.com/listing/70407882/a-visual-compendium-of-notable-haircuts

Waves

Bespoken Art. Art that Speaks

This is pretty cool, you say your name and the wave is made a pretty color for you and sent to your house :)
I thought of Bryan for this with the vibrations.

my typeface

hey guys, this is where i am at. if anyone sees something that needs to be changed please let me know

Drunkin' Letterforms

This is when I made a breakthrough in my letterforms. I painted the lyrics to the songs I was listening to. :) (Drink of choice: captain and coke!)

From Nate and Glenn

Shadow Sculpture: http://www.instructables.com/id/Shadow-Sculptures!/

Light Patterns: http://www.olafureliasson.net/works/multiple_shadow_house_2.html

LED Throwies: http://graffitiresearchlab.com/projects/led-throwies-ii/

Forced Perspective: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/04/beast-castle-behind-the-scenes-with-walt-disney-imagineers/

David's Progress !

I know I have been scarce on the output, I ended up stumbling upon a font which was pretty much exactly what my final form was in my head. CHECK IT OUT And it is pretty awesome.

So as to not kick a dead horse with too many cartoon hairy fonts, I tried a new process (through illustrator) to cultivate new arrangement or ideas.

A few samples of the letters M, H, and B:

there are two versions of each, one being a mess, and the second a sort of controlled chaos that resembles moss or over growth.

http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/4336/mspecimen.jpghttp://img16.imageshack.us/img16/6254/hspecimen.jpg
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/3694/bspecimen.jpg

More Later.

Want to Freeze Your Phrase?

Alphabet Ice Cube Trays

GD Comedy

http://imgur.com/a/UrgL7

Sorry for hoggin' the blog... More wayfinding

Here are a few more. At this point, I will focus a few on odd intersections, ramps and streets. Otherwise, I will make only what I need for presentation purposes.

I still need to give the images color attention to give it a more realistic appearance but placement has been set.

Let me know your thoughts and comments/concerns.

Vector vs Hand

So after reviewing the basic vector traces of my icons and the positive comments I received on line weight, I was wondering how everyone felt about the "sketchiness" of the lines and if it is necessary to rework them to a smoother vector line. I worked on reworking the polar bear and wasn't as pleased with the results as I thought it would be. I think that the warbler (bird), the goldstreifiger (bug), and the polar bear need to be traced smoother and scanned in again, but I kinda liked the originals (minus the afore mentioned three) and the slight hand-drawn feel you get from them, accenting the apparent human hand. However, I didn't know if it looked too unprofessional to have a "sketchy," not-entirely-smooth, line.

Opinions/comments please?

Local street signage

Here is another example for local streets signage indicating where to go for I-43 access.

Another sign...

Here is another sign that is located on eastbound I-94 in Brookfield. The original indicated exits for points of interest for suburbanites, Public Museum, PAC, and MSOE. I kept those as well as added more that would be of interest for said suburban dwelling soccer moms and corporate dads.

You may need to drag off to view at the original image size.

More changes based on last class

Here is another based on recommendations.

Please post comments or suggestions.

Changes based on you, the fellow students

I changes the sides to yellow, that is about it at the moment. I may change the roundels to a larger size to fill the in some of the white space.

Let me know what you think and any comments or suggestions.

Ping Pong shots

It took me long enough to figure out my video editing program, but I got it to work. I cut out all of the similar shots and wasted time frames so you get the main idea. Although clipped, I did look at all of the shots from the original to see the angles and curves that they were making. Following the shapes that the ball made through space, I drew and painted them to get an idea of what the solid shape of its movement was. Big thanks to Sam, who let me step into her project for a bit to bust out some calligraphy. It really helped me form the brushed shapes that I used to render my type in Illustrator.

Moving Text - Experiments

By testing the window panes for our group project on moving text we discovered what changes needed to be made before diving into our main project.

problem areas:
-non-frosted windows need some sort of covering to better capture the light and to hide the projectors light from blinding viwers. (will try to solve with tracing paper and semi-transparent plastic).
-window panes too high up are not as visible due to obstacles (stick to 5 lower panes)
-colors will not appear as they would on a white wall (we were projecting yellow and it came up green through the glass).
-need to further divide squares up to get "higher resolution".
-and, of course, mirroring of text/image so it appears correctly to the viewers.

Nicole Specht WIPs

Bryan Short-Thesis

Project Running with Visuals began as a way to create a visual learning system that could be understood with little more then a glance. However, as the project progressed it became apparent that more and more text would need to be involved. Merging the idea of simple and clear visuals along with text has turned the project from being less about strictly visual learning and more about learning with strong visual counterparts.

While still important to my design, the visuals now function more as a reminder to those who have already completed studying the posters entirely. If these posters were then hung in a gym, or a fitness center of some sort, the patrons could view the posters from afar and the imagery would tell them/remind them of correct procedures that they had read about from studying the posters earlier. However if one had not read the posters yet they would connect the imagery with their own actions and know that the poster was designed for them in mind and be compelled to view them.

Where I stand now is finding the correct size of imagery as well as colors to be used on the overall design. I have experimented with many line widths to make the images understandable from a distance, am working with a font hierarchy so the correct information is apparent first, and am altering the colors of the posters so they lead the eye to the poster.

One of Google's April Fools Jokes

This was #4 on the list of Google's April fools jokes.


4. Search for Helvetica or Comic Sans using Google, and you'll have a little surprise. Google plans to use Comic Sans as the default font across all Google products, but you can use the Comic Sans for Everyone extension to browse the entire World Wide Web using Comic Sans. It's fun, fun, fun.