Happy Holidays!

Lots of love and peace to all of you!

Hand-drawn Stuff

Hello world! ;-)

Finally I am well again. Within the last two weeks I started to work on some hand-drawn shirts and posters. I was inspired by Green Day's album "American Idiot" and some other music, sitting at home having a bad cold and by visiting the World Trade Center Tribute Center at Ground Zero. Take a look...

Women - A Novel by Charles Bukowski

This is a NEW UPDATE on the book assignment. I decided to use the first chapter of Charles Bukowski's novel "Women" for my type book. Bukowski, born in Germany in 1920, was an influential Los Angeles poet and novelist. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short-stories, and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print.

Women is a 1978 novel starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. Women is centered around Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife. It does however feature the same constant carousel of women with whom Chinaski only finds temporary fulfillment. In the book, Chinaski's nickname is Hank, which was one of Bukowski's nicknames.

I googled a picture of Bukowski with a woman, turned it into black and white, drew the title and scanned it. I picked Clarendon as font for headlines and quotes (it has that typewriter look which works good with the story I think) and Adobe Caslon for the text. I also played with black and white space on the inside cover.

Click here to take a look at the layout...

I set up 16 pages but don't get confused... I used the first chapter for all the pages and just changed the names to chapter two and three and picked different lines of text to design the quotes.

And this is the complete book jacket:

The City Of New York - Type Specimen Book

Here is my Type Specimen Book. I picked Wikipedia's entry for New York City as text and then created everything in InDesign.

I used the following typefaces:

Serif: Adobe Jenson Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, Century Old Style, Minon Pro.
Sans-Serif: Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Trade Gothic, Frutiger, Myriad.

Please click here to view it...


I also worked on the "Rear Window"-Poster. This time I took my own picture. This is how it looks like when you look outside my apartment's rear window :-) What do you guys think? Better than my first one?? I also used the same colors (b/w and red) that I used for "Psycho" and "The Birds" so it becomes a real series of posters now. By the way, this week Hitchock's movies are running on AMC, Channel 54.

Anyway... I am sick, so I won't see you guys in class...

Visual Language

Here are some icons...

CD Packaging

Inspiration

Here are some posters, websites, editorial design and other stuff that I like...


Antigirl






Büro am Meer







Jan Rieland






Keepmesane







Misprintedtype







Studioracket






Tanja Oberst






Flying Machine








Dress Code

Re-Designing Movie Posters

The new assignment is to pick a director or a screen-/playwriter, then choose three of his plays/movies and create posters. We can not use images from the movie or images of the actors.

I picked Alfred Hitchcock as director and did posters for Psycho, Rear Window and The Birds. I tried to capture the mood and the feeling of the movies.

Since I will be out of town at the weekend I won't be able "finetune" the posters. I will come back to New York late Monday afternoon. Maybe I'll miss class... maybe.





Here are the original posters...