jamesmith

These are the two oldest things I own in my apartment. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but it feels weird, and maybe a sign of something not good.

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Does it count if it’s an historical document?

Was kinda-sorta surfing through the mess around Chris Muir’s cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface (you can google for it yourself). Came across Jon Swift’s blog post on same and by that came to this awesome flow chart explaining whether one should use blackface on their blog. Finally, someone does something useful with infographics.
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These are covers for CD collections of NPR’s Driveway Moments series. I was just drooling over Cartoon Modern at the bookstore (dude… no, really, dude…) so I’ve been looking around for stuff with that feel.

The most frustrating thing is that I don’t even understand it. I mean, I might have something like that in mind, but by the time I’m done, it’s all overworked and weird and there’s gradients and 3D models thrown in there and I’m not even sure what the hell I was thinking when I started. Which is kind of the same way I make music, but for some reason, that process is fun, rather than a slog. I think I maybe just hate Photoshop. Even though they were nice enough to go and throw a 3D engine into CS3 for me, so that I could delete Manga Studio and pretend I never heard of t.

Anyway, now I have to go and root around for some old Hollywood posters, from back when designers were allowed to design, as opposed to whatever the fuck it is they do now.*

*_{“No, no, the giant head goes on the left, Johnson. Naked chick goes on the right. What’s wrong with you?”}

illustration friday: polar via flickr.

I have this folder somewhere called Illustration Friday and there are 4 pictures in it, and only 2 of them are online. I get caught up too much in making stuff look *good* when I know people are going to be looking at it. That’s been one of the hardest things to get used to in doing storyboards: knowing that people are going to see it, and being okay that the picture isn’t perfect in my head.

There’s all sorts of things wrong with this, but I still like it. The way you like your annoying, mentally-disabled little cousin.

Click de pic for short bio on Ahn Sang-Soo, “the father of Korean typography.”