Roller Derby poster design.
A friend of mine is a member of a local roller derby team called the “Hub City Lady Hawks” and asked me to create a poster for an event they’re having. It’s been a long time since I cranked out a street poster like this. But who could say no to an event with a bunch of ladies force feeding elbows to each other while skating in circles all for a great cause?
Keywords: Design, Commentary, Poster
5ive Minute Logo.
5ive Minute Logo
Fast food, fast cars, fast women, and now fast logo design!
Why shouldn’t logo design be instantly gratifying? It should be! Life’s too short to waste time on complex and costly logo design projects. I’ve solved this problem while making the whole process fast and easy!
How it Works
For $5 I’ll take 5ive minutes and become your short order design cook and whip you up a tasty visual morsel before you can say “Craptacular!”
Jolly St. Nick AKA Santa. (View Larger Image Here.)
I’ve illustrated a lot of different things over the last 20 years or so but never Santa Claus? (At least none that I can remember) I’ve done elves and even Jack Frost but never the guy from the North Pole?
I love Christmas and all it truly stands for. I know the character Santa is more a part of the commercial side of the season but hey, I grew up watching all those cheesy stop frame animations each year and loved them. Land of misfit toys and all the other fun memorable characters and stories. So I decided to finally create the fat man himself this year.
The making of a Lynda.com design course.
Over the last six years I’ve authored four books. That said there’s no John Grisham’s in design publishing and the investment of time to produce a well crafted content rich book is a lot of hard work.
So when I was asked to do another book this past year I told the publisher I had to think about it. I just wasn’t sure I wanted to go through the hassle that comes with this enormous task. If I don’t love doing something the last thing I want to do is commit to it.
A few days later I got a call from my friend Mordy Golding who now works at Lynda.com and he asked me if I’d create a course for them on design. The more I thought about this, the more I realized this format for delivering information is better suited for me than a book is. The whole medium of interacting with an audience and talking to them is far more appealing than putting my thoughts and images on paper and sticking it on a shelf. So I turned down the book offer and agreed to create courses for Lynda.com.
A few weeks back I flew down to Lynda.com headquarters and we spent nine days shooting the entire course. The whole experience was a lot of fun and this post will give you a good idea as to what it takes to produce this type of video content.
So what’s my design course going to be about you may ask? Well I can’t get too specific but in general it’s about the creative process. From initial client contact, gathering information, ideation, sketching, refining, building out your art digitally, presentation, revisions, art direction and everything else in between.
This post is a sneak peek behind the creative scenes at Lynda.com.
Live free.
Last weekend my daughter Savannah and I spent Saturday morning texture exploring. Driving around the country side and downtown finding old buildings and facades and capturing the real-world textures digitally. It’s a fun way to explore and discover things all the while building a design resource you can use.
I’ve been texture exploring since art school back in 1985. I even wrote a book about textures called Crumble.Crackle.Burn, but the main reason I love textures is because they are timeless. They’ll never go out of style and it’s an authentic way to take digital art and bring some humanity into it.
My loose sketch.
This post is a brief behind the scenes look at a recent custom typography project I posted on my Glitschka Studios web site.
Loose Sketching
When I start working out my hand lettering I like to use a standard pencil. I hold it with two three fingers loosely and lightly gesture draw which allows me to flow the letterforms better. I then go in and roughly work out the basic composition. I don’t worry about letter weights at this stage.
Design Sensibilities
The most intriguing projects for me are those that challenge me to think differently, or cause me to approach something in a new way. Rarely are projects so smooth as to avoid any bumps in the creative road, some times that happens, but most often the creative process between client and designer can get a bit messy along the way. So knowing how to steer the proverbial ship through the waters of client expectations and personal preferences is paramount in pursuit of resolving a design problem.
In this post I’ll reveal some interesting aspects that transpired during the course of a recent project.
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