Bumblebee from Transformers

This Christmas I made paintings for all my friends.  I made about 12 in total.  This one however was my fav!  I've never done a painting in this style ever but I think it turned out alright for a quick painting.    This one is for Thomas :)  I wish I took pictures of all my paintings before I handed them out but o well.    This is a crappy phone pic too.  Ugh I'm terrible at keeping track of my work!  I'll try to get photos of some of the others. 

Hope everyone had a good Christmas! Enjoy the snow :)

December Special

Another party with a great turnout! Not many people came since a majority are gone for the holidays but we had a nice get together with only 18 people :) 

Holidays!

Merry Christmas :)

Good/Sweet Packaging Design

[I got a request to make a post about good packaging, enjoy!]

Lindsay Perkins sustainable, simple and same label packaging for a broad range of organic food.  Biodegradable paper with a list of product names.  Each product is merely circled or highlighted. Super easy for a small shop. 

Knoend light uses the packaging as part of the product. The packaging is the lamp shade.

Packaging by Ruiz and Company for Chocolate. Simple and easy to understand.

Alternative packaging for supermarket produce, highlighting the distance that food travels and releases carbon dioxide throughout its journey. By swissmiss.

Organicann compostable packaging. Greener Marijuana! Can compost in backyard or green bin. 

Flat sheets of recyclable corrugated cardboard by Patrick Sung called the Universal Packaging System or UPACKS. The patterns make it easy to fold and conform to almost any shape while maintaining structural rigidity and protecting the contents.

 

Wine by Some Young Punks. Use original cover works from ‘low brow’ literature of the 20’s through 50’s. Some series also include images from comics and artists.

Bellroy wallet packaging from card.  Could easily be shipped and provides a really nice and refined package.

Baxter of California Bravado. Packaging with no glue or ink.  Clever folding package. Design by Marc Atlan. Also check out other stuff by mark you will be amazed!

Alright I have to post some of his other stuff it's stunning!

I got a ton more bookmarked if you want more lemmie know ;)

Zimoun Sound Architecture

Paco Pomet

Edith Head

Just watched the Incredibles again! SOO GOOD!

Gabriel Moreno

Working on my company!

I'm going to apply for a grant to start my business so I made a prototype of a business plan that I'll show them. This one is for the cushions, with a temp LOGO (still working on it with my sister).   I figured out most costs and I don't need to much to start off.  I could get up to $10 000 if they really like my business plan!!  I also have the packaging figured out! Biowrap and paper, super cheap!  Sooo stoked for this company! I have 3 profs supporting me and helping me get started, I just can't wait to be done my minor!

(The back of the business plan is a material sample)

Where's that piece of Toronto?

So this is the biggest image (click to see bigger) I could get onto Blogger since it's so wide but here is a project I did on Toronto. The poster is about 13' wide and 2.5' tall. I stitched about 25 photos I took of a queen street stretch on photoshop. This is a super long stretch with not much room to stand back so there is a lot of warping and perspective in the panorama(especially in the tall buildings). In order to get ride of it entirely i would need to take over 200 photos. But anyhow this was a quick thing and I think it turned out pretty cool.

So I made a where's Waldo game of Queen street!

All the little boxes on the bottom are items to find in the image. I actually put in 2 waldo characters! My class really enjoyed it weeeoo!

This was creative assignment regarding the city and I wanted to focus on the details of Toronto.  We are so overstimulated with constant advertising and chaos of the city that these minuscule pieces usually go unnoticed.  I actually learned a lot of neat things about Queen street that I've never noticed before.  For instance, there are a bunch of shoes hanging in trees and on lines! Now I kinda want to make a 'Where's Waldo' book of Toronto. :)

It looks like a turtle to us