Okay, so I missed most of the service at Redeemer due to helping with the children’s class. While I wasn’t able to illustrate the sermon this week, I did attempt a little inspirational illustration for the kids, à la crayon.
Here’s this week’s strange illustration. Sorry for the cramped space. I hope to have more room to play with in a bigger sketchbook next week.
Taking a page from prolific Illustrator John Hendrix … I drew in church Sunday.
I’ve been working on this logo design, for Texas A&M’s Biological Engineering Sensor Technologies (BEST) Lab, over the last few months. I think we’re close to finishing up.
Just wanted to show y’all an example of what a late phase of the brand development process resulted in on this project.
Anybody got a more exciting name for this phase than the “image refinement/type & color options phase?”
Well, Gustav is hitting Memphis. “Hitting” being a negotiable word. I feel for the people that got evacuated from their homes and had to go through that whole pain. He’s manifested himself in gray skies and a steady rain all day.
Here’s a sketch I did a few weeks ago of my little boy Claude. I tried to make it resemble an Italian masters sketch from a book I had …
Here’s a custom scripted “B” logo I’m working on for a bio-engineering research laboratory at Texas A&M.
We’re currently in the image refinement, color & type options phase of the project. Almost finished I think! I’ll post the final when it’s done.
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Just out … I revisited the hand-drawn type from what used to be Elizabeth Boyd’s “Dish” logo. I’m aiming for an eclectic, funky, deco feel from the custom type treatment. Check out the inspirational vintage deco ashtray.
Fresh off the drawing board, the new summer league design. If you’re in Memphis this summer, come out and play.
Harvey Kay, in the post he made on Friday said, “I would like to see the strife and struggle that Memphis has had to face.” That got me thinking about alot of things, the most interesting to me being the idea of human struggle, more specifically, wrestling. Harvey said he was disappointed in the current Seal of the City of Memphis, because it lacks any representation of that strife and struggle associated with our city. That raises the question, what would give our seal more of that? I think the concept of wrestling is an idea worth discussion.
Wrestling is interesting to me because of the primitive, humanistic quality of it and more than that, the tension and symbiosis intrinsic to the struggle. It takes two to wrestle, and each one’s move is determined by the move of the other. It’s a “get to know you” kind of thing, a flesh-on-flesh working out of different forces, a “with you” activity. A final conclusion is always met. But the process of getting there is a dance … powerful, beautiful at times and ugly at times, tense and confusing and full of raw energy.
Kinda reminds me of a city I know.
Definitely reminds me of the city I want to live in.
My daughter.
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