Wait, That's a Logo...?

I am looking at my local competition on facebook and some of the things I see shock me. Some people's work is just so terrible. I ran across my recent exes "photography" page and he used a generic script typeface to make a logo and it was just God awful...I mean seriously, if you don't get it hire a fucking professional for Christ's sake.

I mean...How does one react to this?

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Type in Nature

I have started to go around shooting for the type project in nature recently. I have found that by looking around for these letterforms that some are fairly common when you look for them but some are going to be difficult to run across or find. I think Q and Z will be very difficult to find. Some letters will definitely be more organic like q and found in nature and some will be more found in man-made structures such as z.

Flourish Script

I am introducing a new typeface for our upcoming project that we will be starting soon. Right now I am still sketching everything out and nothing is finalized but so far I am happy with the direction it is going in. I am making an ornate script-like typeface using flourishes and whatnot.

Currently I am still working on tying everything together and there are certain elements that will be altered once I digitalize everything and get it into illustrator.                             

Here are some flourishes that could be used for inspiration. 

Pin Ups

These last few weeks I have been talking about my retro packaging project and what I plan on doing with it. This past weekend I did a little bit of networking because I really wanted someone who had an old hot rod car that could be used for a pin up shoot. I went to the parking lot on 9 mile where the old guys go with their hot rods on Saturday night and the very first one I approached was willing and excited to help me out. Although nothing has been put into play yet as far as this shoot goes I know because so much planning is going into it that it's going to end up being a bang. I have contacted a hair stylist who specializes in pin up hair styles and have been researching their outfits and clothes.

I also have found a guy who has a 1940's framed motorcycle who is going to let me shoot with it as well.

I also created some new business cards for myself and I am extremely excited for them to come in. I did a textural painting to scan in to the background of the card to give it some texture and a little bit of my flare to it.

I've continued on with the info graphics project after the first critique with a little bit of a different mind set. I did decide to go ahead and focus on the animals being affected by the ocean pollution as well as the eco system in general because it is an important factor. My project is focusing on the effects of oceanic pollution as a whole not just the facts about it that relate to how we contribute.

Ideas are flowing..

I found quite a few record labels and pictures of Jimi Hendrix that inspired me to take my initial idea of having a silhouetted imaged of someone with a fro and expand on that. 

I really liked the use of type to create the silhouetted image of Hendrix in this pictures. I am going to search for a very retro typeface to download and use as the outline for Hendrix. I want to use one of the photos of him smoking as a reference so I can have the smoke coming out of his mouth as well. 

I also talked about having a retro 70s background with wild psychedelic colors in the background behind the silhouette. 

I like all three of these images but the last one especially gave me quite a bit of inspiration. I plan on creating a textural painting with these crazy colors to put in the background. I hope to have the smoke coming from his mouth fade into the background by putting it in crazy psychedelic colors as well. I am extremely excited to make some further leeway on this project now that I have more in store for it than the pinup shoots/style I have set up and planned. 

I was reading about dead zones for another idea for my info graphics ocean pollution project. I really want to depict fish in gas masks since essentially dead zones aren't able to produce enough oxygen for the ocean life to survive in areas where they exist. I saw a picture online of a fish with a gas mask on and I thought it was brilliant. It's straight forward and to the point and visually gets the point across while catching someone's attention. 

Another option is to use skulls and crossbones and things such as that to get the point across visually a dead zone literally means the ocean life cannot live in that area. 

Fros and picks

I am currently working on sketching out and vectoring out a silhouetted person with a fro and a pick to depict a 70's feel for the retro project. I am going to use psychedelic colors to depict the 70s feel further.

 I ordered some pin up clothes for a shoot for this weekend and have myself and another girl to model for photoshoots that I have set up for the pin up style feel. One of the shoots I want to do an army type pin up feel as inspired by this album cover:

I am going to borrow a trumpet from my friend who is a music major and I have a pin up army costume that is very retro. I am going to play around with making the photos look old/retro after I take them and and vectoring them out to give the album cover a cartoon feel to see what looks better.

Also I am continuing the research and art work for the info graphics project. I am going through with working on having an outline of texas filled with trash as well has having a chart of algae in comparison to amount of plastic in the ocean.

I am currently working on doing research for the infographics and retro projects for our design classes. Some of the things that I am going to do with the infographics are more than likely going to include charts. I am thinking that with the ratio of plastic to algae being so crazy in certain parts of the ocean that is what one of the infographics will be like. I will have that one as a bar chart showing the bottles of plastic compared to the algae. of plastic compared to the algae. Here is an infographic that uses the 

chart method that I am going to use. 

I am still doing more research for the retro project. I do know that I would probably like for one of the items to have an 80s feel to it and another one a disco style feel. I am still going to do the pin up girl for one as well. I plan on doing a photoshoot and getting photographic references that I can vector out for my pin up girl model/cartoon.