Pattern - Mr. Cheung - Wonderful World

cool.

Pattern - Mr. Shen

Mr. Shen here.

I wanted to play with shapes and light colors. I don't know what else to say.

Made from scratch.

Pattern - Mr. Hu - Daft Punk

I decided to base this assignment on the visual experience that I enjoyed last Friday, when I attended the Daft Punk concert. It was a new experience trying to use a broad rainbow of colors as well as incorporating a shiny metallic quality. I know I'm not doing the concert justice, but itn's a start. See how much they rock the crowd here (this is not the concert I attended).

Stamps - Mr. Shen

Mr. Shen here.

I wanted to create a stamp (essentially a block print or something) of something I really enjoyed. I decided to go with a very iconic character to change it into a black-and-white vector, which is essentially the step you take when making a block print.

I think it turned out well with the limited color.

Stamps - Mr. Cheung

i have two to share this week, maybe one stamp for me to write to you, and one stamp for you to write me back too.


i.



this fixed gear san francisco mission bicycle was made in adobe illustrator (my first time using it!) keeping it simple was a big challenge for me. i played with fancy colors and tried to make a complex but what was the point? black and white turned out to be just fine.

ii.





garamond is one of my favorite fonts. i used it on all of my college essays. i wanted to take a closer look at it and try to see if i could find patterns in its curves and bends.

Stamps - Mr. Hu - Assorted

These are some things that I thought would be cool to have on a rubber stamp. The glasses are of course my glasses and might act a signature of sorts. The middle is a postage stamp that can be stamped on envelopes as decoration, and whose subject can be drawn in according to one's mood. The right-most figure is tree from the brilliant show, "Six Feet Under," which would just be good to have around in general.

Storyboard - Mr. Cheung

allo,

here's my storyboard, a little moment. it was pretty fun to doodle but i think next time, i'd like to think more about atmosphere and tension!

Storyboard - Mr. Hu - Blankee

This is sort of a outline of what I imagine to be a short film. Maybe it has been from staring at a sheet of cloth for what feels like a week straight, but I got this idea in my head as a kind of funny, dark, noir piece about a 10 year-old who's confronted by his old, discarded "Blankee." You only hurt the one you love.

Storyboard - Mr. Shen

Mr. Shen here.

So, this week's Kick Face was very difficult for me. I wasn't sure how to approach it. Should I take pictures? Should I draw it? *shrug*

I got the idea from this old photo set I saw of fruits with faces on them.

What's more awkward, but close to the truth, of meeting with a long lost love (someone that was once your best friend)? Seriously. You just can't help but try to find out what went wrong. There's always one party that never got the closure and never moved on.

Corn - Mr. Hu

I've been reading the great book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma," written by Michael Pollan. This work is mostly a response to learning about how corn has come to dominate the American agricultural landscape. It's really amazing how corn's privileged place in government legislation. makes it incredibly cheap, which feeds into the agribusinesses, which churn out so much cheap high-fructose-corn-syrup-infused food, which makes us Americans so delightfully plump.

Corn - Mr. Shen

Mr. Shen here.

I was thinking to myself the many different things I could've done with this particular piece. The first and most important thing that hit me was the idea that when people say they "eat vegetables", they mean they eat corn and potatoes.

That, well, doesn't really count.

So let's settle it once and for all, ya? Let's get ready to rumble!

Under further consideration, the corn's nickname should have been "Ears" and the potato's nickname should have been "Eyes".

Corn - Mr. Cheung

allo my dear friends, i'm traveling asia at the moment and i'm afraid that i won't have internet in a few days so i'm uploading this a little early, take a look at these buildings i saw this morning, i took a photo and just wanted to share!

Diablo - Mr. Cheung

diablo goes to a party and tries to find a girlfriend. diablo tells a girl, "look at what i can do" and he swings his giant sword around. the girl turns away from diablo and asks a friend if she wants to go outside for a smoke. diablo stands by the wine table and scratches his horns.

(i wanted to do a big "where's waldo" like party scene but it was taking a long time lasso-ing and cropping people out. this party is more of a wine and cheese gathering. like their cool outfits? the party people are models from totem fashion.)

Diablo - Mr. Shen

Mr. Shen here.

I hate to say, but I had a similar idea to Mr. Hu and his design for Diablo. Coming from the same area, I've also come across the Diablo magazine. I decided I wanted to take a single element from that culture and do something with it.

In comes photo manipulation. Since the aptly named Photoshop is perfect for things of the sort, I decided to try my hands on it.

Below are the elements I used to create the final image.

Diablo - Mr. Hu

This is a satirical redux of the Diablo magazine (referring to local Mt. Diablo) that I grew up with in the East Bay. It's sort of a "lifestyle" magazine that talks a lot about local restaurants and shopping and celebrities and other upper-middle-class suburban luxuries of concern. And yeah, my family subscribed to it and I read it and there it is.

It's a stock photo by the way.