What were you doing in 1973?

I was jumping this ramp with my brand new orange metalflake Schwinn.

There’s a tree in my yard that only blooms for about 2 weeks each year. After that, the flowers fall off like snow. It’s real pretty.

Here is another character that finally managed to escaped the flat pages of my sketchbook!

I started this image for the Gimmeshelter Art Show, but never finished it.

My friend Gabriel Marquez will be doing the sculpt. I’m pretty new to sculpting but he’s an old pro at it!

Here is the initial armature he made when I got to his studio.

The legs and tail were cut to size.

Tin foil was added to bulk out the body area.

Clay was added to bulk out the body.

More clay.

The clay was smoothed out a bit more.

I want to thank everyone who made my birthday a lot of fun! I took the day off and hung out with my son most of the day. We got him some new shoes and walked around downtown.

The throwing axe I ordered came in today and I should get a few new throwing knives and an axe from Joe Darrah on Monday.

Art piece for the Gimmeshelter art show.

Great time! Bad Photo!!

They were playing Style Wars tonight at the Museum of Fine Art and DJ Kayslay (Dez) was there for the showing.

I took my son to check out the movie on the big screen and to meet Dezzy Dez. Dez was real friendly and caught a tag in my blackbook. I took this pic but as I waited for the flash to cycle, the guest speaker, Bun B, started to talk and Dez looked up. To make the photo worse, I cropped the top of my son’s head off!

Anyway, I had a blast and so did my son. Every time Dez came on the screen, my son said “Hey dad!, there’s Dezzy Dez!”.

This is a logo/T-shirt design for the band Honeycreeper. From the HC website

HC is a dirty, nasty, sexy, sweaty, high-energy rock band that’s funky as hell. This stock is seasoned liberally with punk and ska, and even a little hip-hop, metal, tribal, and reggae.

I was asked to come up with a custom fighting knife. My initial design is based on a Kukri knife which was part of the regimental weaponry and heraldry of Gurkha fighters. I added a skull crusher and redid the blade shape.

I was asked to help my friend paint a truck for his friend. I took my son along and he had fun throwing rocks around.

Here are a few car sketches I made. I drew the original image with a bic pen, then scanned it and colored them in Photoshop.

I did the layout and Jonathan Mahieddine did the car concept/illustrations.

I made the text have a definite hierarchy and made the illustrators name/logo stand out on the bottom. The colored tab/line at the top would be for the titles. The right side would be for the name and company logo.

The colored dash on the right side just brings your eye down into the bottom where the illustrators name is. I kept the right side of the image white so that the viewers eye can flow down the white space and added a marker swoosh behind the sketches to tie them all together.

By keeping all the graphics simple and clean, I gave the page a more regal look.

I had some free time so I decided to redesign the James Bond ID card. The bottom right image shows how it would look in the ID scanner. There’s a bio chip that you need to have your finger on.

I saw the original jacket at Comicon last year and took some picks. I loved the logo so I decided to make a J6Studios version. I changes the skull up but kept the rest pretty close to the original.

No it’s not a vibrator or a saxaphone! It’s The famous lightsaber of Obiwan Kenobi!

This piece is from a series of images that are self initiated.

I started to make collaged images of places I remember from my youth and my traveling.

This one is called “N”. It’s about New York. We used to go there when I was really young. The layout was inspired by the subway maps. I used 1 image from the “M” piece because these 2 pieces are related since they both deal with my time in the Northeastern U.S.

I wanted to add my recollections and the myth that my mind created about the place, then juxtapose that with modern images from recent trips and experiences I had.

I was asked to come up with a logo for the UK based design company: Accept & Proceed for an ongoing side project they are doing.

Aside from using only back / white / greyscale and representing an A&P in some way, there was no brief.

Logo for a Pakistani band named Mauj. They are a 4 piece band from Texas. Mauj means wave, and I tried to convey that in the calligraphy.

It still has some modifications that need to be done but here’s what I have so far.

I got it featured on VinylPulse.com

A few more tweaks on the legs, neck and teeth. The arms will be added back soon!

I was commissioned to do a painting for Steelouettes. A local Metalsmith.

Spraypaint on masonite.

Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag (November 10, 2006)
Dimensions: 10″ x 8″
Pages: 508
Edition: Hardcover
Languages: English, German
ISBN: 9783899551587

Details: Logo design is one of the most crucial and challenging tasks in graphic design. Seemingly simple, The Logo becomes the indispensable face of companies and conveys the identity and philosophy of brands.

Los Logos and Dos Logos documented this unceasing evolution. Expanding on the previous editions, Tres Logos demonstrates how influences from illustration and street art have become increasingly evident in logo design inspiring ornamental patterns with logos replacing the abstract tag. Additionally, companies are becoming more daring and exploiting their logos to identify their brand with a certain style and appeal.

Fully indexed and structured thematically, the book draws connections between the applications and the field for which it was intended. Like its predecessors, Tres Logos explores the exceptional visual language and stylistic approaches to logo creation by designers around the globe, exhibiting thousands of examples and simultaneously providing information about the makers personal approach.

Tres Logos is a state of the art visual encyclopedia on the current state and evolution of Logo Design.

Michael Dorrian and Liz Farrelly
165 x 250mm
272 pages
paperback
ISBN 1 85669 477 1

In an age dominated by digital media, the first book in this series, Business Cards: The Art of Saying Hello, revealed the unique potential of the humble business card as an opportunity for creative greetings, firmly stamped with the user’s personality. With thousands of examples being exchanged around the world, Business Cards 2 casts a wide net, featuring designs for creative individuals and organizations sourced from all continents. Highlighting materials, formats and production methods that push the boundaries of this genre, the result is a book full of inspiring surprises.