So for you graphic designers out there, heres a brochure i made for some class, about Bauhaus Graphic design all with Kandinsky and whatnot. Some of the found open-ended pieces i found i sort of took and extended them outwards and continued with the whole open ended thing. the top right image is a piece just duplicated on itself a few times. Like, just imagine that the middle are for Kandinsky has a blurb on him, since i kinda forgot about that part. Yeah, Bauhaus influenced of course. Used the Bauhaus typeface along with futura as the body txt face. Hope ya like it 

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Yeah i like rocky, mountainous shorelines but if you're boating, ya don't want to crash into one! Plus, lighthouses are nice to visit. This is a vector art travel poster made entirely in illustrator. Its pretty cool i guess

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So maybe you enjoy looking at rocky mountainous coastlines. So maybe you like to know what the date is. So maybe, like my grandmother, you still use a desktop calendar! well if you fit all this criteria, you might like my calendar. I took all the pictures, so don't bitch about copyright. 

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So, if you came across this in a magazine, ya think you would want to read it? As far as Im concerned, i feel like i should lighten the opacity on that background on there maybe with a layer mode or something. I feel like its almost unreadable. I would like to have a folio down bottom too. Maybe ill make a few changes and repost again in the future...

The logo on the left and the article itself is directly from the United Reggae online magazine. Maybe i need to lower that opacity on the logo, also, I keep on staring at it like its the only thing on the page haha

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Vinyls are cool, thats why i designed one for Masters of Death Metal. Yeah, not its not like it was hard to put together or anything, but im pretty proud of the illustration!

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Alright, I might be getting a little off topic with this one here with the natural themes, but i can't pass it up here. The 80s and 90s kids will remember mostly everything on here but there is definitely room for newer stuff too. Blam Lord's Quest is a compilation of submitted remixes of classic game soundtracks like oddworld, mario cart, legend of zelda, donkey kong, sonic and a whole bunch more. Newer games featured are like assassins creed and some other stuff i don't really recognize but tracks are good none the less. Whats more is that my boy c sides has a track on there, remixing donkey kong's gang plank galleon. Bass is definitely good to have when listening to this album, but its not dub step or anything. Just some cool tunes. 

Our design is pretty sweet here, too. The artist took elements from various video games, ripped them apart and freatured them on the album cover. You have that gun that is dissembled, random rupees, screen static and everything you'd expect from Atari and Nintendo. After that, all the logos on the page are copied from existing video game logos, but adapted for their own text. Aural sects is the label and modeled after Nintendo logo. ASNES is probably atari or something but I'm not sure. Don't really know what it is either.

Whatever, its a cheap collage throw together, which reflects the music. Somehow this is really a good thing, because i enjoy every second of the album itself. Look it up, will ya?

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Anyone who is interested in organic electronic music that will make you feel like you're in the misty Oregon mountains should check out this awesome artist. Emancipator has a few albums out and they seem to be related to the seasons. This album, with its pitter patter, sandy drum machine and twangy string instruments, makes you think of a hot foggy spring the whole way through. His first album, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough, with its echoing drones and resonating serenity gives the feeling of trotting through blowing snow in the forrest. 

If the sounds didn't give away the season, the album artwork surely does. You can see the foliage climbing its way up the cliff face from a dense green pine forrest. The humidity makes its presence known by obscuring the cliff's summit and by creating a thick atmosphere in the distance. A skewed off rule of thirds seems to take place here where horizontal slices are taken for the sky, landscape and then an even thicker fog. Although the title is obscured slightly, emancipator boldly makes his presence known with a Baskerville-like black font on top of thick white fog. 

The limited pallet here does not take from hierarchy here. Although green is our only hue with tones of gray, emancipator's album name is obviously placed and although the scene is a beautifully epic one, it doesn't overpower whats most important here. 

Whatever you do, go pick up an emancipator album if you can. He is one of the few artists i could put out money for and its totally worth it. Also, if ya haven't checked out that Sigur Ros yet, ya better do so haha. peace

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Yeah, so this is totally cool here. We have a new google page here and i just recently realized they were interactive! I must be really be behind here or something... Basically, you can change all these effects just by clicking on the dials and moving your mouse up and down. you can even record with that player on the right! My only problem is the nature of the mouse where you can only click on one key at a time. Not sure what you can record like that, but its totally a cool idea. 

Not only is this a pretty rad idea, but theres some cool graphic design elements there too. First off, the typography plays off of the sound adjustment knobs where each letter in is a type of adjustment. (By the way, excuse my poor understanding of music producing equipment) Anyway, the final two letters of Google are shown as wires attaching to the recording deck on the right. I felt like it took me a second to realize what happened to Google's logo, so in that respect the idea is a little flimsy. 

In the end, the vintage feel of the whole primitive recording system is what I think makes it so classy. Of course, they used vintage recording equipment influence because Google is always celebrating something. In this case, it is Robert Moog's 78th birthday today. He's the founder of Moog music and inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Some examples of his technology in modern synthesizers would include the Minimoog, Minimoog voyager and other bass and effects pedals. Most of this info is pulled from wikipedia of course. It is where the google link sends you for information on him. 

Whatever the case may be, you can find cool design anywhere, even while in the process of looking for good gd (however much that doesn't make sense but does at the same time, given the subject). 

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For all of my Legend of Zelda fans out there, heres a pen and ink for ya done in about an hour or so. Being inspired by the Ocarina of Time, i would sketch Link as a kid pretty often and once in a while you need to experience a bit of nostalgia and remember those good old days. 

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Hey folks figured I'd show ya some cool art ya might not have heard of. This ex-shaman is Pablo Amaringo who used had lead and took part in many ceremonies which included the drinking of an archaic brew called ayahuasca. This is the potion in which the shaman and other participants drink in order to communicate with the spirits of nature. The spirits lead the participants through their experience, sometimes one by one and others collectively. While the shaman might regularly drink the brew, most others are only only amerced in the experience on special occasions like coming of age ceremonies, initiations into the tribe, and when one is struck with a sickness. 

As the shaman embarks into nature under the influence of the brew, the plants communicate to him their medicinal and spiritual applications. This is his time to collect herbs for the brew he might not otherwise be able to grown in his garden. Every brew is different from the last because potency, quality and spiritual properties of each ingredient depends on very minor details like location picked, time of day, color and texture and even depends on how the shaman's mood is! Ever shaman has a different recipe for their ayahuasca which is his closest guarded secret.

Pablo's art depicts every aspect of the experience. His art contains two elements; the physical world and the spiritual world. The physical world always contains a circle of participants and our shaman who are sharing the experience with always the pot in the center containing the shamanic potion. Plants, animals and other natural elements make up the scaffolding of his art. Its as if no other humans exist in the world besides those sharing the profound experience.

Laid onto of this is our second element; the spiritual world. Spirits of plants, animals and higher beings populate the forrest and interact with our ceremonial trippers. They morph with nature, create and manipulate their natural energies and seem to exist as natural companions of the forrest and its inhabitants within his art. At this point, its safe to say the participants watch the fairytale-like happening as if watching that Avatar movie with 3-D glasses... only its totally not a movie. 

I have several of his pieces on my computer backgrounds and I love to study each work of art to find some other detail i passed by before. It seems as if every time I look at this stuff, I always find something new. Its like every hue, tint and shade in the rainbow is used in each piece but somehow it never seems too gaudy. There are endless patterns, esoteric symbols, metaphoric ideas and all kinds of trippy shit all over the place, i couldn't possibly get tired of gazing upon each wonder. In the end, i can't possibly do him justice by describing his styles and techniques, nor can i even adequately explain such an experience. I feel like everyone needs a bit of ayahuasca once in their life to put things into perspective, not to mention experience a bit of ego loss. 

Love talking on this subject, can't even include enough details here, so you ought to look into Pablo Amaringo and shamanism in general. Goodnight folks!

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