MiX is trippin’ on acid

Happy late Earth Day! 

MiX decided to get in on all the ‘environmental action’ and publish a Green Issue. 

So, copying from the best Fillmore artists (as I usually do) the MiX cover was created! 

Victor wants to turn the cover into a pet so he give it warm and tender care. 

APE VECTOR MOM

Yesterday I was struggling to finish a project for my Advertising class where we were instructed to design something that incorporated three elements about us.

Barf.I came up with a concept to take my favorite era of design, the late ‘6os and ’70s, and incorporate things about me into a vintage Fillmore poster.

Besides the fact that the project was indeed due next week (instead of today like I thought), this was a large challenge for me from concept to finish.

My original inkling was to swap the profile of this woman with a profile of my mother from a photo taken of her in the ’70s. I tried and tried to make her look “chic” but all my efforts failed miserably. Two little birds on my shoulder (Victor and Dan) kept updating me on my “vector mom” journey, describing her first as “vector mom” then as “ape vector mom.”

So, the moral of this story … I have learned I suck at vector faces. So I wimped out (and since I THOUGHT I was running out of time), just traced the original poster’s face, and that was that.

My final project is shown above. NOTE TO SELF: Add Victor and Dan to my hate list.

Visualize this: Sex education

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This was a hard one.

For my J431: Advanced Editing class, we were tasked with creating a sexual education poster (11×17).We could use any message to promote any specific sexual health topic. I decided to address teen pregnancy.

When I conceived the idea my first instinct was to create a visual that looked like a teenager could draw, so the doodles were born. Most of my notes looked like this while I was in high school, so I thought it would be a good idea to use a simple concept to make my statement.

To make this poster, I first found an outline of a pregnant woman, took the inverse, and printed it out on a 11×17 (so the figure was blank). Then I took the drawing home with me for the night and spent a couple hours filling in the shape with doodles to scan for the next morning. Once the image was in the computer I formed the font by simply using the brush tool in Illustrator, and saved the image with bleeds to be printed.

On a second look, if the poster was for a business of a specific location, I would go back in and add a call to action to finish it off!

CHEAP, FUN ‘ARTSY’ DATE

During the fall semester Matt came to visit me at WSU and we decided to make our mark on the Zen.

As Matt is very artistically inclined, and I would like to think that I am as well, we packed up some spray paint and made the mile trek from my apartment to the Zen. Rumor has it that the Zen staircase began in the ’70s in effort to discourage vandalism on other structures on campus.

While some students go there to huff spray paint rather than to draw with it, the staircase is usually patrolled by policemen on a regular basis, and conveniently, the police station is located next door.

Since I can’t properly draw anything without a picture to copy from, Matt was in charge of drawing our “graffiti” and I merely colored it in. Here it is!

“Rollerman” is about 8 or 9 feet tall and sits on the third of the seven Zen flights. I went back the next day to take this picture, and there was already spray paint covering our creation.