Kenpo - empty hands

"I come to you with only karate, empty hands. I have no weapon, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principals, or my honor; Should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong; Then here are my weapons, Karate, my empty hands."
-Ed Parker-

fullgive (day3)

I thought that I would make a banner graphic for the website that my brother has been selling the FullGive line up on. I wanted something simple that would relate with and reflect the look and feel of FullGive. Materials and a DIY approach that are used in the making of the cases them selves was used.

Soto Pets

Today I got to thinking of other living things I interact with besides people and got to thinking of my pets, most especially my fish. I know, fish can be really boring, but they are the perfect companion if you can't have a dog or cat in your home, or want to worry about cleaning up messes. So I got to thinking if Soto was a pet shop that sells more aquatic animals like fish, turtles, crabs, etc. I felt the type would still work with the organic movements I originally went with, but wanted to see how it worked just by changing the mark, so I drew a simple looking koi fish.

"Don't Sweat, Glo"

This is my Glo logo just placed in a completely different branding strategy for a different audience. I am a cyclist so I have been really wanting to insert my logo into something dealing with cycling, so I did! I placed the Glo Logo on my cycling shoes! I hope you all like it!

Day 3: CendrilliMEN

Niche market here I come.

friday the 13th

don't judge me. it's been a weird day.

i hate peeps, and have been trying to come up with a use for them ever since my grandparents mailed me a care package containing several:



that being said, i hope you laughed at this (cause i giggled for about 10 minutes after i took this photo), i have been brainstorming more ways to make typography interact with the environment i place it in. instead of adding typography after the fact (placing it in pre-existing photo like i usually do), i literally put typography in the environment. and i had fun doing it.. implementing my favorite design rule that i posted yesterday.

no peeps were harmed in the making of this photograph.

okay, that was a lie

Rebus

Today I decided to make a rebus out of my product.....can you figure out the puzzle? I thought it was a fun twist of how pictures can be associated to words. This could also help kids make different ways to make signs advertising their lemonade stand.

Cable Table reDesign.003

Today's project led me a lot more off track (in an interesting way) than the past two days. I have been thinking lately about how not everyone likes to hide their cables and everything in their office or room, some people are content to have everything showing as long as it is well organized. I consider myself one of those people with everything other than cables. Later in the day, I was watching a lindy hop team routine with five pairs on the dance floor. This can easily get messy with lindy hop, but I was amazed by the choreography. Their formation changes and the ways they organized the high number of dancers on the floor was incredible. One of my favorites was the human piano, shown above, that they created for a strong, bold piano part towards the end of the song. It was an awesome way for them to emphasize the music and each couple.

Also, here is the original video if anyone wants to watch (it starts off kind of slow but gets awesome). 2009 ILHC - Team Performance: One2Swing's The California Rolls

The reazon why

I wanted to backtrack today. I attempted to take a good hard look at why, when, and what activities I'm doing, while I'm listening to my music. And in doing so, why I'm so picky with it. To try and make a long story short, I ended up doing some deep thinking. Lately the only reason I try to use to get done what I know I needed to do, was to think about my friend Tony who passed this august the 28th as a result of swine flu. I don't wanna get morbid or depressing with this, but I guess I tried to force something positive out of a negative feeling. In doing this I wrote a few song "quotes" down, and tried to just sketch either things that came to my mind to try and work them out, or the things I enjoying doing while listening to music, while listening to certain songs the whole time.

It almost became like therapy to a point for me...

Forcing something beautiful from pure chaos.

i never go for anything natural. i love the taste of energy drinks, but other people i know really don't. so i asked a couple people what would make them want to have an energy drink, and a few answered that if it was more of natural energy and not so much of the sugary taste, they'd drink it. this is something that goes for the more natural look.

Day 3 - There's no biz like snow biz

I wanted to continue exploring different kinds of companies that Altable could be. This got me started thinking about products that are easily changeable, or alterable. My thoughts came to rest on the Altable Snowman business. The company would be similar to the those who sell Christmas trees during the holidays, only at Altable would you be able to purchase your snowman starter kit. This kit would include a small, medium, and large snowball which the costumer would then be able to alter in their own way. Like adding arms, scarfs, hats, eyes, ears, and so on... The target audience for this would be families that live in small apartments with no yard full of snow, or anyone without access to snow. The picture above is a depiction of a client paying for one of the snowman starter kits. Notice the Altable signage or the ground and the dressed up snowman mascott in the background (his named is Kevin Frankels).

So what would make something as seemingly bland as furniture (shout outs for interior designers who love furniture) become interesting and creative. Well, the furniture of course! Since i used internet pics last time i thought i would just draw what i found and a couple things that i was thinking of could be in a Suite (sweet) specialty furniture shop. Its my mix between ikea, love sac, and a funky furniture design store. I mean really who wouldn't want these things, a hand chair with flexible fingers, a gaming bed (how lazy can we get) with built in tv, glowing furniture, a mouse trap bed, chairs make of you very own custom fabric, paper lamps with unexpected shades, pod beds, faux grass ottomans, bean bags you buy by the dozen and last but certainly not least a table that looks like an old school nintendo paddle. This is what dreams are made of!

Freudentisch and What?

What is freudentisch? First impressions are, after all, very important, and I wanted to see what impression people had when all they knew was the brand name. So I went around campus today and asked people to tell me if freudentish was a noun, adjective, or verb, and then I asked them to put that word into a sentence. It was more a game than anything, and since people recognized that they didn't know what it meant (and that it wasn't even English!) they relaxed and compliantly played along, coming up with random sayings and using freudentisch to replace words in common English phrases. Some even ventured to give me a direct translation.

the repose i

I spent the morning teaching Brenna my four year old how to cut squares out of paper. She is getting very competent with her new scissors. Conner (my 1 year old) helped me paint the background of this piece. I was thinking about the "i" in identity and how it is a powerful signification today. I was also entertaining how the "i" in ourselves is in constant competition with the self. The "i" may be the true identity of our competitor.

Day 3: To Think Like A Kid You Got To Be A Kid.

You think since I am older that building a Fort would of been a lot easier to make. I slept in the fort the whole night and it was so comfortable that I accedentail slept in and missed my classes. Ooopppss! Oh well. So this is my last kid experiment that I will be doing. I am now going to try and focus more on experimental design to finish up this week.

Today I thought I'd try the music direction

so I made a new logo for a music company

called Tuesday Afternoon which seems to fit.

I also wanted to include a sound clip of debussy's

Arabesque for your listening pleasure, but I'm

not that blog savvy yet. So if you want to hear

a really good version please go to this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWpV7L4YHuU

enjoy.

natural beverage

After making the smoothy I thought I would turn that drink into a natural beverage that can be sold next the Naked juice and Bolthouse Farms. The ingredients were inspired by the smoothy concoction from yesterday.