trapped from flight

so the whole of this painting sucks really, really bad or i'd suck it up and show it. however, i named the painting after this one tiny part that i just love. i keep telling myself i'll repaint it someday, but i never do. i had been calling it 'enraged painting' since i did it on one of those nights you could just kill a certain someone. however now that my life has changed i've changed the name to what i hope the painting will come to represent soon... "trapped from flight". of course the red is symbolic in its typical nature.

thoughts inside a box

ok this is kind of dumb. i had sketched this painting idea over a year ago and really wanted to see it in paint. i don't paint things i drew very well so this was somewhat of a challenge for me. it was supposed to be very symbolic while an expirement with complimentary and contrasting colors. i enjoyed the theoretical part of how and where things should change. some text is trapped, some chaotic. i don't think it came out saying it had a hidden message like i had hoped. but oh well, as i said before, for me it's more a thought expirement.

life drawing

hoping this is okay to post. you never know these days where the line between art and unacceptable drawings fall. however this is from life drawing, not my best but i enjoyed the fuzzy hat she's always wear. made the composition more fun.

adolescent graphic design

so this is some graphic stuff i did way before i thought about doing graphic design for a profession. i enjoyed playing with effects and learning how i could manipulate an image. it opened my eyes to looking at something past its face value.

drawing one, i believe

random part of a larger display i did for drawing one. there are four boards, each a collage spelling out the word 'love'. elementary but for sentimental reasons i like it.

random drunken art

this is a painting a fellow friend in the graphic program and i did. there were a couple splatters from several other individuals, but mainly the work of two. i'm not sure she wants to be attached to our chaos publicly so i'll leave her anonymous. but incase you couldn't tell i am a huge fan of jackson polluck. still looking for a guy who would let me name my son that, lol. anyway, i enjoy his control and relate to his hard life. i admire his work because i feel that there is so much passion in it that you can almost feel him in his paintings.

question

i am doing wedding invitations and mailers for the reception of my sister's wedding. unfortunately she doesn't know when or where they are taking place yet. being quite picky but not a designer herself she keeps sending me a thousand samples for what she likes. if anyone has any experience or suggestions please let me know. i could really use a first step.
thanks

five worst logos

wow. this logo just speaks for itself. HAVE A PEER REVIEW. how can this not seem wrong to anyone over five? there are so many logos like this that it kills me. they are amusing, but that can't make it good for business. especially with as many dentists who get in trouble for molesting their patients. alright... one more just cause they're so bad...and i wonder what this place does to children....
on a more serious note here are the other four WORST logos:
i hate this logo. no i loath this logo. how boring can you be? wow a bold font with all caps then all lower case and that horrible bold slash between the two. then as if that weren't enough they have to use two more fonts for their tag line. and one trademark symbol just didn't prove to be enough. geesh.

for some reason i don't hate this simple font on this logo so much, but the line seems so unnecessary. and i'm sure the line over the e isn't an even weight because it is supposed to be like an accent, but i hate it. this seems like something my class last semester would have done as a first 'cheesy' sketch. think harder people.

again, the font isn't horrible, but c'mon is this really all they could think of? it's so boring and not at all memorable. and why is the O red? i guess i should note that red and blue is not a bad color combination. blue sells, red is vibrant, but the logo screams "forget me"!

now i actually kind of like this logo, but it reminds me way too much of Hallmark. unfortunately that's a huge part of logo design, trying to come up with something that looks like a major brand but not similar to another major brand. i think in this logo it's the H. without knowing what they do i really can't hate it more or less. just think they had an easy opportunity to make it seem more like their own.

five favorite logos

sorry if my posts seem informal. i tend to type as i think. i love this logo. they almost never use the full logo, however. this image was made just for their website. on their sign, menu, accessories in their restaurant they just use the outlined "M." and the text is centered below it. the logo is from a local tavern, tucked away in a small shopping center near vinings. i admire the logo so much not merely because of its aesthetics, but because it was done by the owner who has very little design experience. i love a restaurant that pays enough attention to how things are presented or served. and the logo falls nothing short of the experience. their lighting, restraint on decoration (only black and white photos) is such a needed change from the cookie-cutter restaurants around town. well, now this sounds like an advertisement. let me rephrase... the logo mostly caught my attention since i am quite accustomed to ripping apart the menu designs and such in my area. the way things are all centered, with no attention payed to punctuation or a heirarchy kills me. but when i started complaining about the menu here i noticed that they centered the M over Marlow's Tavern and had the "." hanging off-center to the right. finally someone who may have taken a type class.

now i've never heard of this company. it's called apple newton. but i love the playful style of the lightbulb and how they suggest that it is on and brilliant. i can also see some resemblance of an A and an N. it is so simple, but gets the point across. it is not rigid or stiff. it shows restraint on color and detail, but still seems to include enough information to be a recognizable logo. i enjoy logos that "impress" or logos that 'steal' letters from the alphabet, as McDonald's and M&M's stole the M. it speaks volumes when just a character reminds consumers of your company.

i don't love this logo, but the way they trapped in negative space to form an arrow in the EX was brilliant. i have many times pointed this out to people and a good number had never noticed. but those who did can't help but see it all the time and love to brag about how they were so clever to see it. it is my belief that people like to find things in imagery that they didn't know were there or to discover elements that are not obvious. i also like that they change the colors of the EX on different trucks - resembling what type of deliveries they are carrying. it's those minute details that get me.

this logo is just clever on so many levels. the fact that the 'abstract' shapes form 4 s's was a great start. but the fact that it can read as "sun" in all four directions as well was purely a great design discovery. i also like that the logo forms a diamond instead of merely a square. it really offsets the fact that the logo spells out "sun", but makes it a little harder to see at first. i think that, in this case, that is a good thing. i admit that the text isn't nearly as interesting, but it's not horrible by any means.

ok, boring, i know. but it's a target. and it's called Target. how can the logo be more perfect for the company. they show restraint by making only two rings and the bullseye. i like the color choice and that it is a single color, always. i'm probably a little partial to it too since i enjoy the layouts for their stores. their design team seems to keep up with modern times and i have never seen them step too far. one of my biggest pet peeves is a logo that has nothing to do with the company's name, target audience, or their type of business.