Memorial Weekend Crafts!

As my Memorial Day weekend continues today, I had time today to do another craft project :D Using this tutorial and some t-shirt strips I made a 5 strand headband! I used a bright salmon, dark brown and a light brown color. Though the pictures look a little grey, I assure you it is brown :) 

Last night as I was watching Casino Royale I started on a little purple octopus for my friend for her birthday. I think it's just too cute :)

Glass Tile Necklaces

So, Ive been working on getting something new to sell, hopefully. Using my photography (Nature by Design Photography) I have made a few sample necklaces to sell here. Using practically any picture I have taken, I can make really pretty necklaces in many sizes of glass tiles. Here are some pictures of them :) The cord is a soft nylon, and I have black and white. The necklace is adjustable :)


I had no idea how to photograph these well, so, sorry if they aren't great.

Africa : Malaria and Illness

So good news :) I have a topic I have been researching for a couple weeks, of course its for school. But it's still a topic :) and it's not useless!

So for this paper we had to choose a topic that interested us, and find designs that are contributing to that field. At first I had chosen disease control in Africa. But that turned out to be too broad. So I found two designs that helped with Malaria and waterborne illness and diseases. They were the LifeStraw and the PermaNet.

So, by Wednesday I should have the paper I wrote for class up here :) Stay Tuned!

Busyness!

Wow, again I have not had time to really research anything this week. A lot of things have been due, and I have been working on projects non-stop. BUT  the good news is I AM FINISHED! I finished the Caution tape alphabet, finally! Here it is :)

Final 2D Poster of the whole alphabet done in Illustrator.

I realized that I forgot to lay out the ACTUAL caution tape spelling caution...... IMPROVISE! Lol I had to add it in so the shadows aren't right, but oh well.

Caution spelled out in caution tape :)

Caution Tape Alphabet

I have not had enough time to even think of researching a topic to post about, so here's whats been taking up all my time :)

I have been working on a project for school, more specifically my Intro to Communication and Design class. In this project we had to make words out of 3D objects like these: 

I went with my Caution Tape idea:

 

 Then once we chose the idea we liked best we had to start making a 2D version in Photoshop and or Illustrator. Which I have almost gotten half way though!

 

 This project has been taking up my time... THOUGH I did research Stefan Sagmeister :) So here's some information I had found for the project I did:

 Born in Bregenz, a quiet town in the Austrian Alps, in 1962, Sagmeister studied engineering after high school, but switched to graphic design after working on illustrations and lay-outs for Alphorn, a left-wing magazine.
At 19, Sagmeister moved to Vienna hoping to study graphics at the city’s prestigious University of Applied Arts. After his first application was rejected he enrolled in a private art school and was accepted on his second attempt. Through his sister’s boyfriend, the rock musician, Alexander Goebel, Sagmeister was introduced to the Schauspielhaus theatre group and designed posters for them as part of the Gruppe Gut collective. Many of the posters parodied traditionally twee theatrical imagery and offset it with roughly printed text in the grungey typefaces of punk albums and 1970s anarchist graphics.
In 1987, Sagmeister won a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Here humour emerged as the dominant theme in his work. When a girlfriend asked him to design business cards which would cost no more than $1 each, Sagmeister printed them on dollar bills.
After three years in the US, Sagmeister returned to Austria for compulsory military service. As a conscientious objector, he was allowed to do community work in a refugee centre outside Vienna. He stayed in Austria working as a graphic designer before moving to Hong Kong in 1991 to join the advertising agency, Leo Burnett. When the agency was invited to design a poster for the 1992 4As advertising awards ceremony, Sagmeister depicted a traditional Cantonese image featuring four bare male bottoms. Some ad agencies boycotted the awards in protest and the Hong Kong newspapers received numerous letters of complaint. By spring 1993, he had tired of Hong Kong. Sagmeister spent a couple of months working from a Sri Lankan beach hut before going back to New York.
As a Pratt Institute student, his dream had been to work at M&Co, the late Tibor Kalman’s graphics studio. Sagmeister bombarded Kalman with calls and finally persuaded him to sponsor his green card application. Four years later on his return from Hong Kong, the green card came through. His first project for M&Co was an invitation for a Gay and Lesbian Taskforce Gala for which he designed a prettily packaged box of fresh fruit. A few months later, Tibor Kalman announced that he was closing the studio to move to Rome, and Sagmeister set up on his own.
His goal was to design music graphics, but only for music he liked. To have the freedom to do so, Sagmeister decided to follow Kalman’s advice by keeping his company small with a team of three: himself, a designer (since 1996, the Icelander, Hjalti Karlsson) and an intern. Sagmeister Inc’s first project was its own business card, which came in an acrylic slipcase. The second commission came from Sagmeister’s brother, Martin who was opening Blue, a chain of jeans stores in Austria. Sagmeister devised an identity consisting of the word blue in black type on an orange background.
As none of the record labels he approached seemed interested in his work, Sagmeister seized the chance to design a CD cover for a friend’s album, H.P. Zinker’s Mountains of Madness. of Madness won Sagmeister the first of his four Grammy nominations.
Invited by Lou Reed to design his 1996 album Set the Twilight Reeling, Sagmeister inserted an indigo portrait of Reed in an indigo-tinted plastic CD case. The following year, Sagmeister depicted David Byrne as a plastic GI Joe-style doll on the cover of Feelings. One of his trickiest assignments was for the Rollings Stones’ 1997 Bridges to Babylon album and tour. Sagmeister struggled to persuade the band’s management to accept his motif of a lion inspired by an Assyrian sculpture in the British Museum. Also the astrological sign of the Rolling Stones’ lead singer, Mick Jagger (a Leo), the lion doubled as an easily reproducible motif for tour merchandise.
As well as these music projects, Sagmeister still took on other commercial commissions and pro bono cultural projects, such as his AIGA lecture posters. When Stefan Sagmeister was invited to design the poster for an AIGA lecture he was giving on the campus at Cranbrook near Detroit, he asked his assistant to carve the details on to his torso with an X-acto knife and photographed the result. Sunning himself on a beach the following summer, Sagmeister noticed traces of the poster text rising in pink as his flesh tanned. 

This information was found on  http://designmuseum.org/design/stefan-sagmeister

WARNING: The last picture on this page has Stefan Sagmeister naked, though it cuts off at his LOW torso. :P  Just a warning :)

This is a picture of him.

                                    

Here is some of his work: 

I apologize for the graphicish nature of this, but he got notoriety in the 1900's as the artist that self harmed in the name of craft. He had his assistant carve with an exact-o knife into his torso.