Happy Holidays 2010

I love designing a holiday card every year and this years was quite a feat. I wanted to do more than just the ambiguous "Happy Holidays" but somehow still create a card for everyone. So I put together Festivus, Christmas, Hanukkah, Navidad, and Holidays each with their own positive expression and then cut the words up so the illustrations in the card could be mixed and matched. The result is you can celebrate everything! They are 4-color process on 65# Cover French's Parchtone Mist with A7 French's Poptone Blue Rasberry envelopes! Only 50 cards were made so if you got one Enjoy!

U is for U-Bend!

U is up at Alphabattle!

Arsenic & Old Lace

A new poster design on my site! :) A mixture of whimsical typography and clean illustration, which make up much of my personal style are used to create this poster for the play Arsenic & Old Lace. Arsenic & Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. This is not a client project but is my interpretation of how it could be done and was developed for a series of samples I'll be sending to art directors.

T is for Time

T is for Time :) Now up for Alphabattle!

R & S

With my work on my Halloween costume I fell a bit behind on my lettering and missed out on R. I went ahead with it since it felt odd to not do so. So here is R and S. You can see all the others over at Alphabattle!


R is for Ribbon!


S is for Smoke!

My lettering is getting more and more narrative as this goes on, that is something I'm really enjoying! :)

Q

Q is for the Queen of Hearts! :) Check out the rest of the letters over at Alphabattle!

Alice in Wonderland

I'm a big fan of Alice in Wonderland and felt it would make a great addition to a pitch of samples for art directors. This is not a client project and never took place but is my interpretation of how it could be done. It is 2 posters, the program cover, and a shirt design for the staff. I set this fictitious project with the Port Tobacco Players, they are an awesome local theater of volunteers that do great work.

P is for Pen

P is up at LetterCult. Enjoy!

Hello Kitty Commander!

So a couple of days ago I came across an illustration I did years ago and laughed my ass off. I called it Hello Kitty Commander and it may be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever drawn :)



I posted it on Dribbble and it got everyone who saw it laughing, as well as, Ryan's request for a desktop background. Well I'm not one to shrug at a request for my work. :) So here is a list of every conceivable monitor resolution I could think of:

1024x768
1152x864
1280x800
1280x960
1280x1024
1440x900
1600x1050
1920x1080
1920x1200
2560x1440

iPhone3
iPhone4

Crap! I don't know my monitor resolution and don't feel like checking. Can I download all of them in one zip file? Yep! :)

Enjoy!

N is for kNot!

N is up over at LetterCult's Alphabattle. Enjoy!

Never Underestimate the Power of the Stache!

So for a few weeks I've had this image in my head as a rebound to Rogie King's This Isn't The Mustache You Were Looking For... that was Vader with the oldstyle villain handlebar mustache. So last Friday I went ahead and threw down my rebound, liked it so much I took part of my weekend to make a screen and print silver ink on a black tee.

Dribbble Dis

So I love the idea of Dribbble. Especially since it plays upon my idea that design needs to be more about community over competition, sharing ideas and inspirations rather than worrying about others stealing them. As an educator I find it to be really bad in the heart of design education so I encourage my students to share and share alike. It doesn't matter it someone has the same idea as you, they won't execute it the same way as you because they are NOT you. That being said I decided to dribbble here a bit, since well...I don't have a dribbble account (you need to be invited, oh well someday maybe :] )


A new poster/shirt print illustration. Enjoy!

Nothing to Lose Shirt

My second shirt off the press. This is part of an on-going series of illustrations I'm working on called the "New Originals" which are reimagined illustrations from works I did around 10 years ago. I figure since my skills and means have improved why not take a second look and see how I would do these pieces now. I don't have my online store up and running yet but if you wish to order a shirt you can do so by dropping me an email I'll let you know cost with shipping and the turn around time, you can even pay via Paypal.

Oh and if you're curious about the font. It is a new typeface I'm working on called Atreyu, this is the sans version, there will also be a blackletter, slab and serif versions to this super family in the coming months. :)

ALPHABATTLE!

LetterCult has the E's up and running go check them out here. You can join in too :)

Jessica at SP 2010

SP 2010 Speaker - Jessica Hische from Semi Permanent on Vimeo.

A short interview with Jessica Hische at Semi-Permanent Sydney 2010. Love the music too :)

HA HA HA Happy Holidays!

My 2009 Holiday card and series of desktop wallpapers to celebrate the season. Enjoy!
1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, 1600 x 1200, 1680 x 1050, 1920 x 1080, 2560 x 1440.

Graphic Design Favors

As a designer we all do favors for friends and family and I'm not opposed to it. I usually take on a bit of a slacker focus to these kinds of jobs and don't really guarantee a turn around time since it would be most likely harmful towards paying work. Lunchbreath did this awesome poster of The Dreaded Killer Jellyfish. :) Loving this poster!

Knockout 2

This animation is a remake of my original second part of my Knockout Poster project which uses Adobe After Effects to create an animation of the poster. In the animation I chose to have the poster become the climax of a dynamic introduction that portraits Knockout as a world champion boxer. Using the sidescroll text sequence of the name in combination with the iconic Rocky Balboa theme song. The end of the movie is the pasting of the broadsheet and hanging of the gloves to bring a cohesive whole to the piece and it’s connection to the poster.

Pareidoodle

The above is just a doodle I did with Pareidoodle. Pareidoodle-Drawing Conclusions, is part of my master thesis Play and The Discovery of New Ideas. Pareidoodle is a new way of drawing ideas in a digital world. Based on the psychological phenomena known as Pareidolia, where a vague or random stimulus is perceived as significant. This phenomena is seen in common examples such as seeing images or faces in clouds, the Virgin Mary on a tortilla or even hearing hidden messages on music albums played in reverse. By using random marks and colors the user’s mind begins to make new connections to what they are drawing on and alongside in the seemingly meaningless and instill them with a sense of meaning through their own hand.

You can try Pareidoodle for yourself or even download a desktop version for Mac or Windows, here. Enjoy!

Cruz Skateshop

Cruz Skateshop is an independently owned shop in San Francisco specializing in Roller Derby and Skateboard stuff. Owned by Sandy Cruz (aka Ms. Motley Cruz). Sandy is also my brother Gordon's girlfriend and they both work at running the shop together. Last May they came to Savannah, GA to celebrate my graduation from SCAD's graphic design graduate program. While they were visiting me they asked if I would illustrate a graphic for a t-shirt for the shop. They try to do two graphics every few months by different artists. This is what I came up with. Gordon also messaged me that the graphic which I finished up this past week and handed off to him is also being used as an ad on the Derby News Network. So stoked! :)