People looking good in G's shirts!

I wish I had better shots of these folks, but the iphone pix will have to do for now...

the final collateral

My floor covered in boxes:

Eric's


Mark's


Mine


Text fading away...

I like this

Read about it here.

Limited run

I like the black one.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda...

Found here at Julie Shore

here is my final design, the color ways might change

Designs

Three window collage design.


Illustration. This may end up as a print. I feel like there's something missing.

Design Ideas

Still need some more work but they are getting closer

Possible Shirt Design by G, Part 2

Outlines or three colors?

My Latest Design Crush

Check out the Delicious Design League for more posters and inspiration.

Shirt Design 2

Here is the 2nd of my designs:
You can check out a hybrid of this and my other design here.

Possible Shirt Design by G

Still working out the kinks, but I think this may be the direction I'm heading. What do you guys think?

Shirt: E

Getting ansy, I took my images and photoshopped them on a shirt. While it's not guaranteed that it'll look exactly like this, it's definitely the look I hope to achieve. I'll be finishing the poster card graphics soon.

new print

I got excited with all the new screens in my house that i had to put them to use.

Puttin in work

I spent Sunday drawing and cleaning my place. I'm hoping to have my art space set up by the end of the week. It's going to be ready for painting, printing, photo sorting, framing, home brewing, and... with time, whatever else I come up with! Sewing, candle making, and nursing plant life are also on my list. Very exciting stuff. So anyway.. Sunday gave me this pile of line drawings to run through Photoshop, and some good direction for where I want to take my prints. I'm leaning towards the one of the girl dancing, which I translated from the included photo. I want to incorporate the words "gamble everything for love", an excerpt from a poem by Rumi. I also quite like the type and curves on the "True I'm Livin" piece.

Sewing and Shoes

For the members who are obsessed with shoes and sewing, a collaboration inspiration:


Read more about it here: Hella Jongerius + Maharam + Nike = Layers Airforce Limited Edition

Screen design no. 1

For one of my designs, I went to the well and figured that I'd do a girl with type in her hair.
The sketch always starts off pretty rough, but after looking at it, I decided that I'd try to keep that gritty look.
The picture above is actually the second version. In this version, the line strokes were a little more deliberate and I toned down the rendering.

So now I'm on the type portion. I think I'm pretty close to inking this, but there are still some here and there's that I'm not too thrilled about.
Word.

Thoughts on packaging (pt 2)

After getting some feedback, I thought about other possible box shapes. Actually, I only thought of two, a pentagon and hexagon, and conceptualized the latter. The idea is to let the consumer ultimately decide their arrangement. I also revisited the rectangle idea - easiest to probably produce - and applied the same arrangement concept. Enjoy!

Thoughts on packaging

First, there's nothing major about this idea (not yet rather), it's moreso to examine the benefits of packaging our screened products in a box versus a bag.

Part 1 - flexibility. It feels like there's a certain 'finality' to packaging items in a bag. While it's cool to present something that has had minimal amount of handling, once the bag is sealed, there's not much more you can do with it. To do blind packaging with items, we assume that the consumer will want the size shirt and/or color that's being offered.

Part 2 - long term. If we spend the time to do some nice screened graphics for the bag label, will it be a lost cause if the consumer doesn't or can't keep it?

Anyways, here's the small idea that I've come up with.

Even Kiwis...

More prints

Lessons In Screen Printing (part 2)

As mentioned, we had a screen printing part last Saturday at the Mission Multicultural Center. Like everyone else, I also constructed my own poster featuring the logo and mission statement. Being crunched for time, I opted to do mine analog - pencil, pen, and paper. Here's the OG design:

Here's how it turned out:

I also experimented with printing over everyone else's posters (which now is in the possession of k, g, or m, due to sharing with the entire creative umbrella, so I don't have them for photos) and a Phish one I found:

And on the backside of it:

Lastly, I took a print from everyone and created this abstract collage:

I really enjoyed the entire process and can't wait to start screening on other things. Peace.

Lessons in Screen Printing

On Saturday we took a screen printing class at Mission Cultural Center to get better acquainted with the screen printing process. To take the class, all you need is $12.00, a transparency of your design, inks and paper/fabric. Since this was simply a learning day we each designed an 8.5 x 11 poster with our logo and mission statement. We could design it any way we want, just as long as it had the logo and mission statement. This gave us the opportunity to see each others different styles and approaches to design. I was pretty excited and couldn't wait to begin.

So here's my original design:


And here's how it turned out:

As you can see, you can barely make out the bottom half. And the messy margins were actually done on purpose, but looking at it now, I would have rather had it taped off completely. Maybe it wouldn't have looked so bad with the messy margins? Needless to say, I was completely disappointed with how my design turned out.

Though it was a bummer, it didn't stop me from playing around with mixing colors.


After some of my pink ones were semi dried, we experimented with layering each others screens.

This is with Kishante's


It turns out mine didn't look too bad as a background. With just a little work on registration, these could be pushed a little further (unfortunately the screens have probably been completely cleaned off of the designs.)

And this one is with Mark's.

I think the silver looks awesome with the pink (the photo doesn't give it justice)

...

So what went wrong? Well a combination of things:
• I should have probably used a bold font for my text
• Mark mentioned that the screen wasn't fine enough and that it might have been exposed to long
• The instructor thinks it might have been the emulsion (he's had issues with it) and that something may have went wrong with the rinsing process.

Who know for sure? But whatever case, it's all part of the process and all I can do is go back and try again.