Daily Post. 05. Jessica Hische.

I love this woman. All of her work is amazing and it is all hand-done. She has done work for everyone from Tiffany and Co to GQ to Target. This is nice design in a world full of triple stroked letters and gradient-ed-to-hell illustrations. Her work has soft color palettes, hand-drawn lettering, and a very successful feeling of retro. All the main-stream packaging and design has gotten so heavily over done. Everything is decked out in 5 different colors, 10 different stroke weights, and 20 different gradients. Her work is a breath of fresh air in the design world. Her color choices are impeccable, all type is original. Drawn by hand and then scanned into the computer to be turned digital. The designs themselves are simpler, and very aesthetically pleasing.

SOURCES: JESSICAHISCHE.COM

Daily Post. 04. (un)Real Reality.

I have only been up for about 2 hours and I stumbled across this amazing artist/designer. It's not really graphic design, but hey, I never said flat out that every daily post but be about graphic design, right? This artist and designer's name is Alex Roman. Here are just a few stills of his work.

The reason I have such a hard time figuring out what to call him is because every single one of these images and of the movies you will see in a minute are all DIGITALLY DONE. Not a single one of these images are real. You cannot find a single one of these places in real life. It doesn't seem possible that all of these are made in the computer but they are. Throw a few stock photos of humans in there and I'm sold! Tell me how much one of these places are and I'll buy it and move right on in. His weapons of choice are 3dsmax, Vray, After Effects, and Premier. Here is one of four teaser trailers. Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that this all part of a larger project. A movie.

Kahn's Exeter Short Film from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
At the end there are links to the rest of these videos along with a link to his website.

The imagery is stunning and the music is stunning. Not only did this guy create these worlds, but he also designed and created the music for these pieces. No need to say that once he makes the music public I will do everything in my power to get ahold of it for my own collection.

Creating a 3D-reality image is hard enough. But creating an entire world is astonishing! All the images I showed you at the beginning are all stills from this movie that is being created. I do not even know where to begin. This post is more of a drooling of his work. Scott Hansen, the owner of the website that I found this on, put it best. He said,"But what amazes me here isn’t just the execution, Roman crafts truly beautiful images with impeccable taste, something often missing from highly technical productions such as this."

SOURCES: 1S050, THIRDSEVENTH(PROJECT'S WEBSITE), VIMEO(ALEX ROMAN'S ACCOUNT), + SETH WEISFELD.

Website. Layout. 01.

very first anything for my website. loveit. hateit. too plain. must be spruced up.

font. league gothic.

time. 2 hours. ish.

concept. grid, grayscale--blehhhhh--, the period.

Test 02.

Here is another trial of my identity. Working with my name creating the letter "I". Build upon this idea? I think so. maybe.

Font. League Gothic.

Daily Post. 03. Wine.

This packaging is quite wonderful. Not my favorite ever. Must say, this packaging is quite lovely. But the thought process behind this design is quite nice. Inspiration for good design can come from anywhere. In this instance, it comes from the location of the farm from where the grapes were grown to create this wine. The farm is located at an intersection of two roads in Australia. The owner of the land said it to be a 'pocket of gold'. The land he owned has very rich soil which produced very rich grapes. The design of this packaging is based off of just that. The two black intersecting lines are the roads and the gold square represents the plot of land. The different placements of the graphic represents coming upon this intersection from different directions.

Idea is very simple, and the way they carried it out is very elegant and beautifully done. Even the oddest of inspirations can have the best of outcomes.

SOURCES: THE DIELINE.