Flower Your Spoons

For this week's Hand Letter's assignment, we had to make an entry for Spoonflower's alphabet contest.  The contest required us to create an alphabet and turn it into a pattern that can be printed on fabric.  We could only submit one and I chose the red, orange, and pink version; but I thought to include the other versions in this post since it was a tough decision.

Photoshop and marker
18"x21"

Hand Letter Mural

This following are a few different colored versions of a hand lettered mural for a restaurant in Hampden called Alchemy.  It was a three week assignment for Hand Letters, but I decided to scrap what I had and spent all day making this, which I'm glad I did.  The restaurant is pretty classy and the owner already has a bunch of framed photos on the adjacent and parallel walls, so to avoid making the room too cluttered, I went with a simple, yet elegant mural.

Moar Produce!

As you can tell, I am having a little too much fun with these produce alphabets.  I have another alphabet made out of asparagus that I will clean up in Photoshop and post over break.

Psychedelic bread

Having fun with color.  And bread.  I took pictures of an alphabet I made out of ripped bread, turned them into graphic shapes in Photoshop, and had fun moving them around.  It was a very fun project and a much more productive way to use up stale bread.

Type Compositions
Bread and Photoshop

I'm still alive!...barely

It's been a month since I last uploaded anything, so here are some of the things that have dominated my life since early February.

The biggest projects are for Words on Wheels, which is this competition where Baltimore MTA elementary and middle school kids submit poetry they write and the top fifteen are selected to be plastered on Baltimore buses and the light rail.  And since a collection of poems printed in Helvetica text are not that attractive, they get MICA students to illustrate the poems.  Three or four MICA students compete against each other for each of the fifteen poems and the best will be used.  Only three classes were assigned this project and I was lucky enough to be in two of them.

So without further ado, here are my entries for Hand Letters and Illustration Concepts.

Hand Letters Words on Wheels (Version 1)
Micron, Graphite, India Ink Brush Pens, Color Markers, Photoshop
11.125" x 27.375"
This is the one I did turn it

Hand Letters Words on Wheels (Version 2)

Micron, Graphite, India Ink Brush Pens, Color Markers, Photoshop

11.125" x 27.375"

This was a last minute playing with color.  I think I like it better, but oh well, I guess.

Illustration Concepts II Words on Wheels (Final)

Micron, India Ink Brush Pens, Acrylic Paint, Photoshop

11.125" x 27.375"

 

Illustration Concepts II Words on Wheels (Greyscale)

Micron, India Ink Brush Pens, Acrylic Paint

11.125" x 21.375"

Planet Produce Finals

Here are the finals for the Planet Produce logo.  I originally just planned to make a logo out of the photographs I took, but the instructions mentioned the logo should be something that could easily be transferred to screenprint, so I also made a more graphic one, for good measure.  I think I like the original one better, but I'll just have to see what the class thinks tomorrow.

Planet Produce

Possible T-Shirt and bag designs for a local produce stand.

Pretty in Produce

I have even more alphabets for Hand Letters class!  Last week, I made a texture out of India ink markers, graphite, and mascara.  This week, I scanned that page into Photoshop and pulled out letter forms from the texture.  Because of this project, I have found a new love for the magnetic lasso tool.

For homework this week, on top of the weekly alphabet sketch, the class had to make an alphabet out of produce.  We could either draw food or take pictures of food ourselves, so I went to the dining hall, grabbed all the fruits and veggies I could carry (without angering the people who work there TOO MUCH), and got to work.  I have two pieces because I have a border around the "R" in my original composition and although I really like how it looks, none of the other letters are like thar, so I cut it out in the second one.  Also, I made two "A" letters, but didn't have the heart to cut one of them out.  Anyone have a preference?

Hand Letter My Life

For Hand Letters, we are supposed to make one alphabet every week, so here is my very first alphabet.  I especially like the C, D, I, M, U and Z, but mostly D.  I really like the cool, funky letters, so for another assignment, we were assigned to make a banner for the class blog, so I just went with the letters I already made and I think it turned out pretty well.  Plus, the Hand Letters has a D, which makes me happy that I was able to use that D for something.  The whole class voted over which banner would be used and even though I did not win, my banner made it into the top eight in the class, which was exciting.