Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Call for Mail Art

My "Imaginary Event " is a call for Mail Art. It suggests that the Exhibition will be comprised of submissions of Mail Art that have been sent to the curators. I do not go into much more detail on the poster, except to say where to look for more information. The title of the exhibition is "4 x 6."

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Designing a logo...


This was the final part of the assignment. I thought it should be at the top. Not that's I'm not proud of my logos... but I think I have some kinks to work out...
This image is supposed to look like postcards (or any mail), falling out of a box and onto the floor. I could see this becoming some mail-room clip-art some day. (by the way, I have no idea why all that white space shows up at the top... I had a much better use of space in the Illustrator document, but I'll need to figure out how to correct that later.)


This was the first logo I made. I tried to use postcard shapes in all of my logos. I really liked using the eraser tool in class, so I thought I would use it here. Also, I write with the mouse instead of using the font tool because I hand-write many of the postcards I send out, so I think my handwriting is important to the project.


In this logo I was trying to make it look more like a postcard, but the other concepts are the same.


This was actually the last logo I made, and my favorite. I wanted to go back to my original idea after I made the ones you will see next. I may even use this as a button on my website.


These look slightly more like credit cards than postcards... but whatever... I just wanted to try something different.


I used the postcards from the last one to make this logo. I tried to make it look like a map of the world... but I wasn't all too successful... This was the only time I used any of the "artsy" effects in illustrator, so that was pretty interesting.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Dance of the Postcard People



My final Photoshop project. You don't have to say anything, I know I'm a genius. OK, go ahead and say it.
Joking aside... These images are my own. I drew the background in Photoshop using the basic drawing tools. The people are from postcards that people have sent to The Postcard Project. I scanned them and then used the tools in Photoshop to remove the people from each card. Then I placed them on the background and modified them each to show a little perpective... although I'm not sure perspective is my strongest artistic asset... In any case, the end result is suppoed to look like all these characters are in the same room. I also tried to make this approximately "postcard sized" so that maybe in the future I could use the image to send out on postcards (clever, eh?).

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Background

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I used the same image. I'm lame like that. Actually it works nicely so you can see how I modified each image. You can check out my last entry to see the credits for the "foreground" but I found the stamp image on the PingMag website, on an entry written by someone calling themselves "Uleshka."

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Life Perspective

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I would like to be able to tell you why this image now has more significance than when It was floating around on the web, unaltered... but I got nothing. I found this image here: http://www.thecontemporary.org/images/mailart_01.jpg , which is the website for the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center. I believe they had some kind of Mail Art exhibition.