I have a new mixtape for my brand new project The set up coming along, and right now I’m working on the cover art. The problem is, I can’t choose which direction I wanna go with it! Take a look at these two versions I have so far.
The one with the lady on it is all cool and kitchy, but looks a lot like something I could have made three years ago(not good). The circle one is more conceptual, but at the same time more… me. . So i need to pick one.
Take note, this is the first mixtape of two, so the next one (titled “the boys”), will have to be made in the same style.
Anybody want to be my divine intervention, giving me some input here? I’m stuck! By the way, click the yellow guy to hear a preview of the tape.
This mixtape will be a cheeze factory like nothing else, and I love it. Hey, it’s for the girls. The boys will get theirs on the next tape, trust me. It’s gonna be 80’s funk-hiphop-early-electro-galore.
Update
i finally got my head from out my ass and settled on this. In a way, it brings the two ideas together conceptually.
This fall we had a motion graphics course at school, centered around a design contest for NRK3 (Norwegian National Broadcasting). We were to come up with an eight second short, a “jingle”, to play between programs.
The jingle had to convey NRK3’s image and values and so on of course, a difficult feat. The station has a lot of low-brow series running, and its main separation from the sister channels NRK1 &2 is its humor, its not needing to take itself too seriously. NRK1&2 are all about family values and whole-heartedly fun, NRK3 can let itself go with programs such as “embarrasing deseases”, Bondi beach and Rick and Steve (“the world’s happiest gay couple”).
And this is where my character comes in. When we first got the brief from the NRK execs, they were practically running around the room, talking about “openness”, “acceptance”, and “a little weird, but funny”. The first thing I did was doodle a funny naked guy, running around the page waving his junk. Later this idea transformed into this happy drag-queen-fellow in my movie.
Now, it might be hard to see everything that’s going on in those measly eight seconds, and it’s supposed to be that way. When you see a little short like this god knows how many times a day, you need to see something new every time, to keep things interesting.
The story is basically a man coming home to his boring, black/white, two-dimensional home. But as soon at the door closes behind him, he unwinds, the music starts, and his true identity unfolds. All within the first three seconds, mind you. For the rest of the film he just dances about the house in his red bra and fruity hat, nothing special there.
The film didn’t get picked up in the end, but that’s fine, only a small fraction of the contestants did. This way I can do what I want with it, like show it to you!
I’m working on some designs to put on iPhone shells.
Whenever I work on big design cases, I always have some small project going on the side that I can work with when I need to clear my head. This is just that. Click the image to biggify.
I just re-did the entire design for La Figuére, a house-for-rent in Provence.
I based the site around a WordPress theme called Manifest, which is super minimalist, single column, no widgets or any other nerdy stuff, which i tweaked a little to suit this project, adding some images and such.
It’s a lot of fun working on these really simple sites. Usually clients want a vast array of functionality, this time the only crucial point was adding an availability calendar.
You can have a look at the site here, if you like. Feedback is highly appreciated, it’s not even a day old!
Part one here.
Now that the presents have been unwrapped and all bets are off, I can finally post these medallions that I made on the laser cutter, from old vinyl records.
My brothers and sisters together form the names Duus, Olsen & Lysgaard, and the medallions are kinda faux-lawfirm-looking, with each of our creative fields cut into them.
Happy holidays folks, hope everyone got proper stuffed!
Just (semi-)finished this drawing. Don’t know exactly what to do with it yet, i think I’ll use it for my upcoming dj concepts.
the form is nicked from an old photo, so I can’t take credit for putting a boom box in the hands of some chick in a hijab. It’s mostly a study in linework and shading techniques, as well as getting comfortable with digital drawing (this is all drawn on a Wacom tablet).
I drew it in pretty hi-res, so i suppose I could introduce some more colours, and screen print it. Would that be cool? Any ideas? (more…)
