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Chip Kidd, AKA 8th Man

I thought his presentation was interesting because it seemed that he often focused on his failures. It was something great to hear, especially at our point in our artistic careers because we fail often, so hearing that somebody so prestigious still has failures is very encouraging. Going into the lecture, I didn't have a great idea who he was, so I would have liked him to give more of an overview of his work, maybe talk about what he's contributed to art. In general though, it was a very enjoyable lecture, he kept me interested and laughing. 

Photoshop Drawing

Photoshop Manipulation

Self Portrait

Inspired by Jerry Uelsmann

Self Portrait

Blogger and/or the Export feature is kind of weird in that it left the edges uncut, including the "non-print" part of the file. Either way, it's not a big difference, but imagine all the edges were clean.

Jerry Uelsmann

Born January 11th, 1934, Jerry Uelsmann is a master photographer. His images mostly come from elaborate processes with multiple negatives to create the final product of an extremely conceptual image. With the advent of digital photography and digital manipulation, images like Uelsmann creates are much more accessible to the common photographer, but Uelsmann has been creating these effects in the darkroom and far exceeds the ability of photoshop. He was ranked as one of the top ten photographers collected in America by American Photographer. 

AI Dog

The original is a white dog with the picture as the background, but the picture didn't transfer over, so I changed the dog to grey. It's unfortunate that these dogs were such ugly creatures ;)

Another go at the Icon

Yet again, Blogger decided to ruin my design. The red parts are actually blue, and the blue parts are actually orange. Silly blogger. Anyway, This is more of a revamped old design that I wanted to revisit. I made it in the same fashion as the other icons, just layering shapes (except for the rope which was the pen tool). 

Icons of Me

I think I figured out why both this and my last image are messed up. Any black is gone. Each of these are headphones with a black band and there is another entire icon that is all black on this page. My illustrator family is also all black and not visible.

Illustrator Family

For some reason, I don't think this is showing up. Jille, I emailed you a copy, so if nothing else you should have that.

Jille's sites

I enjoyed the DesignofSignage site just because it was really interesting to look at how much information can be communicated through such simple forms. For instance, a vertical line as opposed to a slightly slanted line could distinguish male from female, or a dot, or a shape left empty versus filled in.

The Core 77 page was interesting, but kind of hard to figure it out. It was a little too much thrown at you at once and I would have liked a simpler display of some of the events/artwork that they had photographed.

Peter Callesen's page was the most interesting to me. At first I couldn't believe that he made all of those from paper. The textures and forms he created were just incredible. I was really impressed with the degree of craftsmanship and the creativity put into the medium.

Wake Up. Wash Face. Do Routine. Now Paint.

I thought it was interesting that these artists saw their routines as liberating, preparation for the real art they were about to create. Often I look at preliminary drawings and warm up exercises as the crap I have to wade through before I can get to really creating and expressing, where I feel free. On the flipside though, I often look at my academic classes as liberating, where I can just think logically, a-b-c, and that's it, while in art I'm forced to pull something from inside me and throw it on a piece of paper. I don't know, things like this shift around for me a lot, I'm still figuring out how I like to work, but this article held an interesting perspective.

10 Websites

no1underground.com

wimp.com

bonsaistudios.com

thecorpser.com

jennifermaestre.com

penny-arcade.com/comic

gordonmcbryde.com

bellz-v.livejournal.com

mewithoutyou.com

solidstaterecords.com

6 Word Memoir Project