24.Mar.2010 Document #010
13.Mar.2010 The Band Logo Pt. II
Okay, so I’ve designed a few different logos for the band, and the one problem that arises is the one problem that has haunted me my whole life: I need to pick one. But that’s the beauty of it, once several thumbnails or versions are drawn up, then you have options. The good thing is that nothing is set in stone.
The logo that we initially go with will ideally be on banners, flyers, posters, back drops (getting ahead of myself there but hey…), album artwork… But if you look at a band like the Deftones, they have succesfully used several different types of logos for each “era” they’ve been through. But the bottom line is that it’s not about the logo, but more about how the logo is applied. How it relates to the music and the package deal. As a starting band, it’s difficult to tell what the right thing to do is, but the best thing at this point, is to start.
02.Mar.2010 The Band Logo
As usual, I get ahead of myself when the construction of a band begins and I get all stoked about designing a logo. I always told them that we were lucky to have a graphic designer who is in the band. We don’t gotta pay anyone, and more importantly, we don’t have to explain to someone outside of the perspective what it is we want to visually represent us.
This potential poster design I threw together is from an aerial photograph I took, and tweaked in Illustrator. To be more specific, I layered individual Live-Traced versions and then just mirrored it to create a refreshing composition. Fortunately, it is high-res. But the logo I’m not 100% on because it is a little too reminiscent of a particular Poison the Well logo. Boo, they pioneer both the grunge/splatter band logo trend, AND the metalcore trend.
As for the actual band, we’re getting things together slowly but surely.
27.Feb.2010 Time/Dynamics
Images created via MousePath, java applet created by Anatoly Zenkov. How long your mouse is left idle generates the size of the dot. I left some of these ones on all day and the end result was pretty cool. Great scrap material for Photoshop madness…used some MousePath images in the new banner. The only downside is not being able to get a high res. version of the .tif file.
14.Feb.2010 Untitled I
03.Jan.2010 New paintings circa Dec 2009
Mission Bay – San Diego, CA — 24″ x 18″ Oil & Acrylic
Vinny Sciuto — 30″ x 40″ Oil & Acrylic
Lush — 24″ x 18″ Oil
I feel its time for a new batch of paintings, as I remind myself that knowing when a painting is already finished is just as key as trying to find out how to finish it.
21.Nov.2009 Warp-lensed World
I thought I’d share some old pictures from a little over a year ago when I had a Helio “Fin” cell phone, that had a 3.0 megapixel camera. I had a good discount off the monthly fee from where I worked, and the camera was a lot better than most typical cell phones. Whenever I slowly twisted the phone while taking the picture, it bent the picture in a very strange way. The images were stretched, rather than blurred. Wish I didn’t drop it in a toilet.
21.Jul.2009 Invertebrate
