The Finger
2011
Description
"When life is cruel to you, it makes you want to be cruel right back at it." @slackluster
Fields
Design, Graphic Design, Illustration
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This is how I think. This is how I feel. If you've enjoyed this series, consider following on twitter, @slackluster.Graphic Design, Illustration, Typography2012 -
An eclectic 12 month calendar for 2012, featuring designs based on tweets by yours truly, @slackluster. Get 2 for the price of 1 with code "GIFT4THEYEAR" at checkout!Graphic Design, Visual Arts, Illustration2011 -
MAYBE WE CAN! Maybe we can't. But either way...I'm still better than Cain/Romney/Perry/Bachman. Right?Illustration, Graphic Design, Photo Illustration2011 -
Geez I'm out of it for a little while and everybody gets delusions of grandeur.Illustration, Graphic Design, Digital Art2011 -
My theme for 2011: “PROACTIVE, NOT REACTIVE”.
Unlike my themes for the last 2 years, this year’s theme is highly internal. Toward the end of 2010 I started to realize that I am a highly reactive individual, that (largely due to my childhood as an Army brat) I have grown accustomed to continually adapting to whatever situation I’m currently in and morphing into whatever it is I think I need to be in order to assimilate/belong. Although this may sound like a useful/practical way of living, it does not necessarily lead to being truly happy, as my happiness is always contingent upon external circumstances.
So in 2011, I’ve made it my focus to look inside myself and discover who I really am, what I really want, the way I want to be…and unapologetically be myself in each and every situation I encounter throughout the year. My hope is that by the end of the year I will be quite comfortable in my own skin, that I will no longer second guess myself, that I will no longer feel guilty about pursuing happiness and my chosen direction in life, that I will move forward proactively and not allow external stimuli to adversely affect me.Design, Graphic Design, Branding2011 -
One to scratch off the bucket list: GRAFFITI.Graphic Design, Street Art, Graffiti2011 -
A transitional desktop wallpaper I made back in October 2008, featuring some Helvetica and custom type-design.Design, Graphic Design, Typography2011 -
Desktop wallpaper featuring custom-made type I made for April 2004.Design, Graphic Design, Typography2011 -
Facebook profile pics, since 2006.Design, Graphic Design, Digital Photography2011 -
I designed this while spending my 2011 summer in Berlin. The persistent sentiment during my time there: "I love Berlin, but I MISS NY."Design, Graphic Design, Typography2011 -
My latest business cards.Graphic Design, Design, Print Design2011 -
An eclectic 12 month calendar for 2011, featuring designs based on tweets by yours truly, @slackluster.Graphic Design, Typography2010 -
A reminder to keep putting yourself out there, looking for true love, knowing that for ALL the disappointments, it only takes ONE person to make it all worth it in the end.Design, Graphic Design, Typography2011 -
I dig American Apparel ads/photography. This is my parody/homage.Art Direction, Graphic Design, Digital Photography2011 -
In 2002 I followed up my first "Infinity Series" image collection with my 2nd, entitled "Slice". Here the focus was less on 3D objects and more on layers of flat 2D shapes. As with the "Rayform" title, "Slice" was sold/distributed through Digital Vision (eventually acquired by Getty Images), and layered .PSD files were included on the discs so that customers could customize the artwork as they deemed fit.Design, Graphic Design, Digital Art2011 -
In 2001 I created the "Rayform" 30-image title for Digital Vision's "Infinity Series".Design, Graphic Design, Digital Art2011 -
Submitted for Sony's "Make Believe" design competition.Design, Graphic Design, Illustration2011 -
An eclectic 12 month calendar for 2010, featuring designs based on tweets by yours truly, @slackluster.Design, Graphic Design, Print Design2011 -
A series of mixed media images I made, starting with scanned ink drawings on transparency paper.Graphic Design, Multimedia, Digital Art2011 -
I kid you not, one creative director I used to work with referred to the green in one designer's design as "sexual green". That comment so stuck in my head that I decided to make a poster out of it.Design, Graphic Design, Digital Art2011 -
In 2006, I competed in the 2nd Cut & Paste digital design tournament. These are my designs for the 3 rounds, each created within 15 minutes.
Round 1: Oxymoron
Round 2: George W. Bush campaign poster
Round 3: What goes around comes aroundDesign, Graphic Design, Digital Art2011 -
Graphics for an article printed in IEEE Spectrum magazine.Design, Graphic Design, Print Design2011 -
Sample screens from my Rayform v1.2 site, which, sadly never came to fruition back in 2000/2001.Design, Web Design, Digital Art2011 -
Sample imagery from my experimental website rayform.com (2000).Design, Graphic Design, Digital Art2011 -
Sample backdrops of a Flash-based interface for my experimental website rayform.com (2000).Design, Web Design, Graphic Design2011 -
If I could sum up the first 30 years of my life in a visual conglomeration, this is what it would look like.Design, Digital Art, Graphic Design2011 -
"Blau" poster design.Design, Graphic Design, Digital Art2011 -
The Lovegun piece was a shot at representing the inherent complexities of love & relationships, specifically with regard to the bi-directional nature of giving & receiving, aggression & submission. Does it feel better to give or receive? To enforce your will over another or to submit to the pleasure of your lover? To be selfish or selfless? Are there winners and losers in love? What are we in it for?Design, Graphic Design, Illustration2011
