I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the roll design has played in history. I think about this subject fairly often. But this time I started thinking about it because WW1 occured a century ago. Why does that have to do with design? I’m not sure, but design is all around us in many obvious ways by also in many subtle ways we hardly ever think about.
Look at tanks, steam engines, posters, propaganda and numerous other objects. These things have surounded us for centuries, and we seldom think about them, they flow into our lives with out us even knowing, yet they are able to infulence us.
There a documentary coming out in a few week called objecified center around industrial design. I looking forward to seeing it and find out how it treats the subject. Where might it start, the coopers, the cobblers, maybe with A jewler?
Some time you just have to say… why didn’t I think of that… come on I totally think in side the box.
It was time… time to create a letter head for my free lance work. Well it’s done and I like it. There really isn’t much to say about it. It’s only a letter head, but it’s nice, simple and fits with the identity of the rest of my work. I had to alter it some from the web site, as I needed to add the word design to it, while keeping the same icons.
Intelligent Graphic Design
I recently finished the web site for Hopkins Design Group, a Durham based graphic design company. They tend to only do print design, and hence their site is very simple yet easy to navigate, and very clean. One of the things I like about the site, is the navigation. There are several ways to make your way through the site. We built a tour function, that allows straight forward movement, or clickable blocks for a freeform perusal.
For Mothers day I decided to give Trish a photo pendant of Lila. Rather then try to find a store or online photo site to buy one, I dusted off my old glass equipment. I haven’t used it for probably 5 or 6 years, and it was scattered throughout the house. I have tons of old glass, and all the supplies that I needed so it was perfect.
Ok, so I know it’s not yet mothers day and I’m talking about this. Trish knows about it and is already wearing it. There was no way for me to make it without her knowing, plus she hates surprises.
I made two pendants. The first was the bigger of the two. It’s made of two pieces of glass that sandwich a photo, soldered together, with a silver band wrapped around it. It was rather pretty, but way too big.
The second pendant is much smaller. Made the same way minus the silver band. This one is much lighter, and easier to wear.
Mothers day present
I plan on putting a few higher quality images up next week.
