Thought Factory

This piece was created using the screen printing process. I created the actual design using Illustrator then printed transparencies and used them to expose the screen. The content is my attempt at depicting of a funny scene that just seemed to pop in my head one day.

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This design was created as an exercise in logo design by creating a mark, word and type that all support each other in a unified idea or emotion. I started by physically creating the mark with ink and brush on paper. This was then scanned, converted to a vector, and refined. I then came up with a word / emotion that worked well with the resulting mark. The three pieces shown above are explorations of different type treatments with the same mark cropped and moved into varying options.

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I designed this logo for an upcoming website that is still under development. The website is going to focus on showcasing incredible shops from all over the world by allowing users to upload and share their retail destination discoveries. I wanted to go with a retro style because I felt the Swap A Shop name, by itself, had a 50’s era feel and rather than fight that, I wanted to utilize it to further strengthen the brand identity. The two rounded squares in the mark are meant to loosely represent shops and the overlap helps to reinforce the core trading aspect of the site. In the design process, I chose to give up some versatility in the logo by incorporating the detailed shopper but because it is only going to be used in the website format I was willing take the trade off in order to create what I felt was a more unique and memorable logo.

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This piece was created in response to a design assignment that challenged me to come up with a metaphor for a book titled “Staying Tuned”. As you can see from the tag line in the poster, it was about keeping an audience in today’s media. I decided to represent this idea through the pixelated portrait because today’s audiences are spread out across the mass amounts of digital content that is available through numerous mediums.  It used to be that content was delivered through print, radio and tv. Now, it’s understandable that media companies find it hard to keep the same sized audience when they can view content on devices such as mobile phones, portable media players, laptops, computers, tvs, ebooks, and others that deliver media from places like hulu, podcasts, youtube, torrent sites, rss feeds, netflix, ebooks, and many, many other sources.

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I was walking down the street the other day, listening to my iPod and complaining to myself about the stupid plugs I had stuck in my ears. The ear buds are uncomfortable, always get tangled up, and they inhibit my awareness of what’s going on around me. So, I started thinking about how they could be better or how they might work in the future. I then remembered about a sound weapon under development by the U.S. military and it hit me: maybe the headphones of the future won’t be headphones at all!

The technology I’m referring to is called MEDUSA or Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio and it works by projecting microwaves that are converted to sound when they interact with your head so no one else can hear the sound except you. The military is, of course, developing this to send excruciating sound directly into your head to incapacitate or deter you. This device currently fits onto a tank but think if the same tech further evolved into a gadget that you could clip onto your shirt. From there, it would interface with your digital media player and pump the sound directly into your head. If it worked the way I think it should, you would hear it as if there was a radio playing in the room with you. Only you could hear the music and you could also pick up on any other sounds in the room. But, what if you want to cancel out the background noise? I would think that because the sound is going directly into your head, you would be able to just put in ear plugs and voilà, sound isolated music. You could basically have your own personal sound system playing for you where ever you go. You could actually have a sound track for your life. Sounds pretty cool to me. Let me know what you think.