Vile Slug

acoustics/a pistol

2008-08-11T09:18:00.000-07:00

carboniferous/humpback

2008-07-15T09:34:00.001-07:00

small/elements

2008-06-02T19:03:00.000-07:00

bumble/phics

2008-05-22T20:43:00.000-07:00

more next week.

icebürg/show-off

2008-05-12T19:07:00.000-07:00

i want to work on more collages this summer.

this is one i did a little while ago.

touch/bases

2008-04-28T19:29:00.000-07:00

in a courier mood.

well, one might have noticed that i have gone sometime without updating this blog of mine. i've been inexorably busy/swamped as of late with all my going ons—school and work and what little sleep i manage to accumulate in between. the bright side is that i've amassed a collection of work that i am very proud of. maybe i'll have a website to showcase it all sometime soon.

here is something i wrote. it is my design philosophy/statement of sorts.

pre·pared

–adjective

1. properly expectant, organized,or equipped; ready.

“The hike, the wilderness journey, the camping experience--—this is never haphazard business.”

Preparations are carefully made, the planning imagery. The process of design is one wrought with pitfalls of misuse and misinterpretation. Like when in the Great Outdoors, one needs to be prepared to deal with all sorts of wrathful elements in order to breathe easy and take in the beauty. You cannot appreciate design if it kills you to make.

A designer cannot afford to be only an artist and shouldn’t think him/herself as such. In order to know our field we must first know the world; its history and people. One must be conscious and concerned, or otherwise be stuck—ill-fated with a fleeting perspective. A general knowledge is paramount to know what is appropriate and how to skew the limits of ordinary perception.

six/see

2008-04-11T20:20:00.000-07:00

the sixth and final poster.

based off of the ishihara color blindness test but is more about putting the pieces together; molecules and things.

bald/win

2008-04-03T19:47:00.001-07:00

poster number five.

don't lose your hairs.

an octopus too.

cow/boy

2008-03-24T07:45:00.000-07:00

this is poster number four.

process colors cyan, magenta, yellow, black

viz. design is a process.

post/her three

2008-03-13T20:28:00.000-07:00

this is poster number three (three colors) simple enough.

the typeface is adobe caslon pro italic and bold, respectively.

we're halfway.

post/her

2008-03-01T17:09:00.001-08:00

this is poster number two (of six) comprised of two colors (duh), warm grey 7m and black. the typeface is univers condensed and condensed-light, respectively.

the concept is: to be greater than the old/tired design out there. the old guy represents that i suppose.

four more to go.

post her/

2008-02-20T18:25:00.000-08:00

a single color poster for the new graphic design bfa at montclair. due tuesday (2/26).

the concept is that we each of us are made up of tiny things, pieces and ideas.

also, i bought my first purple shirt the other day.

this would make a nice tshirt.

5 more on their way.

2008-02-08T18:06:00.000-08:00

the tapir is

2008-01-14T10:57:00.000-08:00

So I've been wanting to do more with this blog lately, like I want to write these interesting meaningful things but they aren't there right now.

Anyway, since I can't really come up with anything to write I drew a Malaysian Tapir.

oh-ate

2008-01-02T15:07:00.001-08:00

The Little Owl.

2007-12-18T17:01:00.001-08:00

This little owl, I drew for my Grandfather for Christmas.

Christmas has lost its appeal and has turned into another deadline.

Don't get me wrong I love to buy things for those in my life, but the

gap betwixt Thanksgiving and Christmas has shrunk exponentially.

Or so it seems.

mustache, mustache.

2007-12-03T19:33:00.001-08:00

well.

is a mustache always vile?

happy thanksgives

2007-11-22T06:22:00.000-08:00

this is my mark.

little critters

2007-11-12T17:15:00.001-08:00

This is a photo I took for a book cover I am designing.

The illustrations are from Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.

I scanned them, cut them out, and hung them with fishing line.

This is for Italo Calvino's short story The Distance of The Moon.

This is how i set it up on my desk.

You can see my new wireless mighty mouse there,

which is a remarkable little device.

panthera tigris

2007-11-03T15:30:00.000-07:00

This is a tiger.

This tiger was done with a rapidograph pen and watercolor.
The drawing probably took twenty minutes and five more for color.
Tigers have been upgraded to my favorite animal or all time.

click the image to see the whole thing.

thai girl

2007-10-29T11:03:00.001-07:00

This is a quick tiger i did at work. A sort of sample of something to come. When I can find time to sit down and think, I think I will draw some big cats. I love big cats.

one & ten

2007-10-23T06:31:00.002-07:00

With the release of Radiohead's new album there has been some speculation that In Rainbows is actually a companion/complimentary album to OK Computer. A grand scheme ten years in the making, realized on October tenth (10/10). So, apparently you're supposed to make a play list combining the two albums like so:

1. Airbag
2. 15 Step
3. Paranoid Android
4. Bodysnatchers
5. Subterranean Homesick Alien
6. Nude
7. Exit Music
8. Weird Fishes
9. Let Down
10. All I Need
11. Karma Police
12. Fitter Happier
13. Faust Arp
14. Electioneering
15. Reckoner
16. Climbing Up the Walls
17. House of Cards
18. No Surprises
19. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
20. Lucky
21. Videotape
22. The Tourist

Well, there you have it. Happy listening/walking/living.

Welcome Aboard

2007-10-14T10:28:00.000-07:00

This will be my place, I suppose. Here you may find pictures that I have drawn or things that I have made. I might write about something that I am proud of or things that I like. I would not expect entries to be long or very interesting, but maybe.