July 2010
3 posts
Frank Chimero: Interviewing →
I love this
I was recently interviewed. Being interviewed online via email is an interesting proposition: all the questions are usually rendered beforehand, making the interview more of a test or a MadLib than a conversation. It usually feels like you’re talking to a wall. Ideas don’t develop very well, they…
GPS Drawing and Situationism
Multidisciplinary artist Jeremy Wood has been making some interesting work using GPS devices to draw his routes on foot. Interestingly, for the Traverse Me map, Jeremy avoided using roads and paths as much as possible. It brings to mind one of the basic exercises of situationism. The idea is that when you take a new route - one that is off the main drag, so to speak - the “spectacle”...
June 2010
5 posts
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WatchCame across this while checking out the If You Could Collaborate website. A stunning short film from Michael Maloney and John Hooper.
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Trading Prints
I am trading some prints with my new pal Owen Gildersleeve. Apart from being a member of the radical Evening Tweed collective, he is quite exceptional with the applied materials. I was checking his work one day, not for the first time, and noticed that he had a “music” link on his site. Turns out he’s in a 2-piece heavy-jamz outfit called Old Mayor—akin to one of my all time...
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P22 Type Foundry
The folks over at the P22 type foundry have won my heart by designing typefaces focus on design and art history. They have a website but it is counter-intuitive and feels like the year 2000—but they have some really great stuff, I swear. Lucky those savants over at You Work for Them have a grip of them for sale, and are hosting the P22 faces in an intuitive and pleasant way. I’m always...
May 2010
5 posts
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vacation between gigs
I don’t usually share the personal family stuff, but this week I had one of the most memorable trips to the Oregon Coast I have ever had. Maybe because we headed out to do something interesting, everyday, or that we were there for five days solid, or that I pretty much cleared my schedule, it was abundant with good times. A great way to refresh before heading over to Wieden + Kennedy....
WatchFolder Type (by Emilio Gomariz)
Proof I was there!
Some photos of last nights event.
Honesty, I'll be there.
I am pretty psyched about the volcanic/creative activity at PSU these days, largely due to Kate(Zine Mage), Frank(the Destroyer), and Lis(Pixel Palidin). Cool class blogs, excellent student work and tumblr discussions, community exposure and collaboration, and killer guest designers, like today’s guest - Jessica Hische. Sorta makes me wish I was in school again. Tonight I’ll be up...
April 2010
8 posts
I am feeling awesome today!!!!!
A new music blog I am following.
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Year One. Today.
My son turns one today. We stayed up late last night making cupcakes, and a cake. I whipped up these little toothpick flags to stick into the cupcakes. Dove, my daughter, tried to stab me with one this morning. Images of the flag in action are forthcoming.
It’s such a blast making stuff for the family.
OK, here’s the photo:
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Beets, logos, rock posters and the DDC
I’m working on an illustration for my pal Chantelle of Blackbird Presents, who, with her husband Jeff, has purchased some land across the river in WA and they are building a farm. I couldn’t be more pumped about this. Originally I thought I would be working on a logo, but after meeting with her, we decided it actually will be for signage, along the lines of what I usually do - rock...
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Secret Places
Just want to let folks know that The Migration is now available at Urban Outfitters, Special Places - a collaboration with Society6. Grab an art print, iphone skin, or laptop skin. Please, spread the word dear friends.
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Jessica Hische to Paul Rand to Arvo Pärt
intinnabuli (singular. tintinnabulum) (from the Latin tinnabulae, of bells) is a compositional style created by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Pärt first introduced this new style in two works: Für Alina (1976) and Spiegel Im Spiegel (1978). This simple style was influenced by the composer’s mystical experiences with chant music. Musically, Pärt’s tintinnabular music is characterized...
March 2010
11 posts
Plenty of Fun.
Made this for fun. Inspired by photos of Africa.
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Getting inspiration from a pillow.
I am working on a wedding invitation for some pals of mine. I asked them to show me some examples of designs they like. These are wonderful! It reflects their awesome Idahoan taste, and made me smile when I opened the email in my inbox.
I want that pillow, please. It makes me feel like a kid.
Coming soon - mixtape collaboration with this guy.
Lloyd
I may be conceited, but I like to see my name. I like the way it looks. Is that unusual. C’mon, I have a great name, right?
via draplin.com
Fig. 1 - Salvation
Just made this, maybe it will be my spirit guide. A mentor. My muse. We’ll see.
Patterns in Nature
Wow. Caught this over at Draplin’s blog, and it just confirms my love for Wikimedia Commons and archives in the public domain. Beautiful illustrations by Ernst Haeckel. Haeckel was a prolific german, combining science and art, looking for common patterns, and rhythms. Important themes for our times.
The dude blows my mind.
Keeping above water
Just how I’m feeling this week. Persevering. Determined. Up to my neck in it. Eventually I’ll get there. Just trust that if I keep going, I’ll get there. Wherever there is. Make a list of to-dos, and one by one, cross them off. Things are getting done, progress is happening. Pull your head out of the water, breathe, and get back to paddling. Float at times, but that isn’t...
I just think this is beautiful.
Cristina Toro, you have won my heart.
via My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses
I would totally shred this kit
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Start Over
I have been working on spending a little more time in the rough draft stage lately, attempting to “keep my hand out of the way of my brain” (a quote from Nate Williams). For years I have been jumping straight to pen, and inking everything in, because it can be very instantly gratifying, but I am finding that when I take the time to pull all the details into a sketch, I can still...
Watercoloring
A little taste of something secret.
February 2010
9 posts
We have to design for trillions.
Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo.
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My two favorite quotes from designers. Currently.
“The design field is shifting. Collaboration is the new competition.”
- Frank Chimero.
“The collaborators shall inherit the Earth.”
- Aaron Rayburn.
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Split Fountain Mountains
Finally got some time in this weekend to print the posters I designed with Santiago for Finn Riggins’ 2010 tour. I spent saturday night printing the background which was a pretty intense split fountain that transitioned from red to blue, but after I got going I decided to phase out the blue, and eventually the green too. Printing a 5 color blend like this is nice and challenging - ask my...
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The commons
I have been scouring the commons a ton lately. So much awesome! Here’s two that just close-lined me. HARD.
Man. The type on that guy has got some guts. POW.
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New Ad Platform for Uvumi - Anti Ads
So in order to generate some revenue, Uvumi is launching an ad platform for the site. But the requirements of the ads are unusual and seek to blend into the site and remain minimal. So I put together a few ads to get the system rollin’ and set the bar in terms of the aesthetic approach.
It’s unique and unusual in terms of advertising, but that’s what the Uvumi folks are after....
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Haiti
I really wanted to do something for Haiti. My pal Katie invited me to contribute a print to this event at W+K. If you missed the first thursday event, you can still help out and get a poster online at the W+K shop and W+K will match that to boot. How’s that for collaboration? This Lloyd + Santiago + W+K + Haiti joint.
I wanted to get lots of process shots while printing, but I was alone in...
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Let's Start a Design Tribe
via NOTCOT
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Kevin Francis Gray
It’s been a while since a sculpture caught my eye. Wicked figurative stuff with overtones of the occult. Right up my alley. This makes me want to listen to something slow, heavy, dark, and repetitive.
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A Community's Refuge in Usability
Last year I was brought in to do the branding and website design for a new social internet radio type startup called Uvumi, much in the vein of last.fm and virb and dare I say myspace. Something really interesting happened over at the Uvumi headquarters last week as a similar site called The Sixty One launched a dramatic redesign of their site literally overnight, without notice, and with little...
January 2010
7 posts
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Coincidences
Last night I watched Woody Allen’s Sleeper. This morning I came across this awesome art print, and right now I am sharing it with you. I am in love with coincidences. You can’t tell me it doesn’t happen for a reason.
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I love blogs about drawings.
Andy Gilmore is a nutty designer, but his drawings are even nuttier.
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Collab with Santiago Uceda
2010 is going to be the year of collaboration. It was bound to happen sooner or later, that I would work with fellow TLE and Finn Riggins artist Santiago Uceda on something. I loved his recent Built to Spill posters so I asked him to pitch in on this one. This poster is a variation on a t-shirt design that I did for Finn Riggins as part of the VS Wilderness package. Santiago added some color and...
December 2009
12 posts
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Taking a trip to Idaho.
The wife, kids and I are heading back to Boise, Idaho, for the holidaze. Well we were supposed to be there for Christmas but the little guy got sick, so we decided to push our flight back a week and head down for the new year. I haven’t been back in a few years and I am really excited to see some truly missed friends and family. It’s making me get all gushy for Idaho, the state that...
