I built a web site specifically to accompany my thesis project: Dirty Hippies Thesis.
Much thanks to Will Justice for helping me, adding the code I needed to get the fonts I wanted working.
Category Archives: Design/Art
It’s been a long long time since I’ve gotten so little sleep
But my process book is finally done!
It may get a tweak or two before I send it to print today, but you can check out the .pdf here: Process Book
So freaking tired, but I can’t sleep yet!
Forgot to post my thesis proposal power point here
This is a link to my original thesis proposal powerpoint presentation, including my notes. The font used in the presentation is Raleway, so if you don’t have that installed, it may not display correctly for you.
Enjoy!
Well, guess my branding designs are not far off the mark of my target audience
I just noticed the updated branding for Lollapalooza’s web site. Retro 80’s music technology? Check. Illustrative style? Check. Bright bold color palette? check.
Well, at least I have a very easy defense for my branding: Lollapalooza thinks similar branding styles and imagery are appealing to their target audiences, which also happen to be mine.
Brick fire pit
putting this link here so that I don’t lose it. Man, need to really link my pinterest and other social media to my site…
Brick Fire Pit
Illustrator Art Boards and Layers
Does anyone else find it as infuriating as I do that illustrator does not have separate layers for each art board? Why? Why do I not have this option?
Each time I start on a new art board, I have to create more layers and try to remember which ones are on each art board.
Maybe it’s because I was much more fluent in InDesign first and got used to thinking in terms of pages and layers there, I don’t know, but I find it annoying enough to write a bitchy post about it.
Sashimi Report 2
Hey, how about some branded items?
Perhaps a reusable water bottle?
How about a sticker?
Maybe a banner that can be used at the front of a trade-in booth?
Bad responsive design rant
Dear Designers of the Internets and Websites. When I’m on my laptop or my desktop I do NOT want to view a “mobile-fied” version of your damn sites.
This truly bothers me.
I know, I know, responsive design can really simplify development, present a consistent experience and numerous other advantages. However, one of the advantages of using a laptop or desktop is the MUCH larger screen size. I’m getting real tired of having kindergarten-size pictures, which make sense on mobile platforms because of the smaller screen size, take up my whole damn screen on my laptop.
It now takes me much longer to see/read/scroll through (oh! the endless scrolling!) websites that I was able to quickly scan before.
Don’t get me wrong, I dig the pictures, and I like that people are paying attention to how things are presented, but can I have smaller images & more information on my big screens? I feel like all sorts of space is not being used as effectively as it could be.
Perhaps the sites that bother me most are just poorly implemented designs, but man, there seems to be a lot of them out there now and it pisses me off.
Some branding shit
Just as the title describes, some of the branding for my project. Of course, always subject to change, but overall I’m happy with it. I guess that’s what happens when you sit down and actually concentrate for a bit.
Cool place to grab some typefaces
Putting this here so I can find it again later and make sure I have the correct rights to use their typefaces in my thesis project.