Mr. Hu - Arrogant - Superman, that Asshole

He's always tagging buildings with his heat vision. Landlords were getting pissed at him until they realized they could sell his "autographs" in iron.

I got mine on Craigslist Metropolis!

Mr. Hu - Not Enough Time - The Perceptual Clock

A 24 hour clock arranged according to how I seem to perceive the passing of time through the course of an average work day.

Mr. Hu - My Body is a Cage - Escape!

I promised not to interpret it literally. You have no idea how hard it was to fight against the obvious visual pun in my mind. I count this semi-literal interpretation as a victory.

Mr. Hu - A Long Long Way

Looking at my oeuvre, I do seem to have an obsession with diagonals, don't I?

Mr. Hu - In the Future...

i will finally learn how to type.

Hu - Freedom - Unfastened

The freedom to fail on your own terms.

Hu - Rebrand - Prius

To tell you the truth, I wasn't aware that the rebrand was supposed to be a reimagining of a corporation's products/services. So I simply revamped a logotype for the Toyota Prius. While I am quite fond of the Prius, there are some visual issues that could be improved. The new logo is intended to communicate the duality of the old and new in the car's technology. Serif with Sans serif. All in a dynamic diagonal slash. The original logotype is included below.

Hu - Searching for Faith - Vital Absence

I've been doing a lot of thinking about my overall direction, and I'm observing how certain lifestyle and aesthetic choices I've made (or stumbled into) haven't brought me the satisfaction that I thought they would bring. It makes me wonder if there are different things I should be looking into.

Hu - An Album Cover - Night Piece, Shugo Tokumaru

Update, 3/28/08: Here's a slightly different version...

This is a freaking great album. It feels like a stylistic journey. A mix of East and West, filled with mystery.

I had actually never seen the real album cover before, and my solution shares the unexpected likeness of dimly backlit flora/fauna. I'm just as surprised as you are.

Hu - Unexpected - wherever it leads

I'm a sucker for simple visual metaphors.

Hu - Silhouette - Dive, Live

Hu - I'm Sorry - The Very Tall Man

The Very Tall Man is sorry for so many things, but right now he's sorry for not keeping in touch with the people he considers his friends. I was inspired to try out this style by the works of Saul Bass and David Shrigley.

I tried out a few different variations on this one, but the final is much like my original conception. I'm actually quite happy with the way it turned out, though that's not to say some details could be revisited and rendered more scribbly.

Hu - Surivival of the Fittest - the Struggle

As humans, we are animals on a basic and instinctual level, yet we try to be something more.

Special thanks to Chris, Jeff, Alex, Kaelynn, and Dom for being such great hand models!

Hu - Holiday - Turn Out the Lights Day

Turn Out the Lights Day: a holiday from artificial lighting. This is when the government shuts down the generators to all but the most vital public services, and everyone is forced to live without electricity for a night. You have never seen starry skies so beautiful.

As a child, I used to absolutely love it when we had blackouts, and a part of me still does.

Hu - Street Corner - Hong Lih Food Products Inc.

Near my work, there's a great little red brick warehousse that has a lot of character to it. It's small and dingy and houses Asian food products of some kind, perhaps to transport to Oakland Chinatown. This photoshop coloring was done on top of a scanned ink sketch. Color that simulates luminiscence is tough. Right now, the sunset light on the hills looks like fire. And I haven't done enough shading in general.

Hu - 8 Second Epiphany

8 Second Epiphany from Jason Hu on Vimeo.

A recent thought of mine, stuffed into a small package.

mr.hu - revisit, a really late one

Mr. Hu - Icons - Kickfacers, Fibonacci

The first is a pixelgraphic representaion of the members of this Kickface endeavor. The second is an expansion upon the central pixel in a Fibonacci spiral-like way.

Christmas Card - Mr. Hu - no promises

Happy Holidays and Season's Greetings. This is what I could come up with given the mad scarcity of my time right now. I swear I'm not a Scrooge. This just seemed funny.

Movie Poster - Mr. Hu - Holding Pattern, concept

This is sort of a concept model for a modern romance about young professionals. Unforeseen delays, layovers, missed connections, the potential for figurative terminology is boundless!