Collages | Order + Chaos

I did these two collages for an Illustration course I took during Winter Term. These were in-class exercises that i re-discovered while organizing my projects from this past year. For the ‘Order’ collage, I wanted to keep it sparse, almost entirely monochromatic, and bordering on minimalistic. With 'Chaos’ I wanted to really explore how chaotic 11"x14" could get. I think I accomplished that through experimental typography, surreal imagery, and composition.

Design Words

A composition of design/creativity-related words, sayings, and mantras I believe to be helpful and inspirational. It all starts with the need to create.

K - May 30, 2012 | Random sketches

A simple, random, stream-of-consciousness doodle from a few weeks ago.

Pretzel Bold | Advanced Typography

Walked into Advanced Typography with John Langdon yesterday with “Bite the alphabet” written on the chalkboard. The class spent the next 40 minutes carefully biting off bits, ends, knots, and loops of Uncle Jerry’s Hard Pretzels to make a full alphabet. Granted, it’s a mix of upper and lower case (and the only consistent style is ‘salted’) - but it was a tremendously fun experiment and team-building exercise nonetheless.

Above: the full alphabet, and a photo-collage of my name out of pretzel.

Tom & James Draw

Tom & James Draw is the beau­ti­ful col­lab­o­ra­tive art project between James Gulliver Hancock and his brother Tom, who was born with Down’s Syndrome. Their work is gor­geous — lay­ered, col­or­ful and fas­ci­nat­ing. Here’s more:

Their col­lab­o­ra­tion is unique as they are shar­ing expe­ri­ences between the out­sider and “insider” art world. James iden­ti­fies with Toms abstract use of visual cod­ing and Tom builds around James’ skilled and con­fi­dent mark mak­ing. Tom relaxes James’ tech­ni­cal obses­sions, and James enables Tom’s con­cen­tra­tion and play­ful mark­mak­ing. Together they make worlds of expe­ri­ence, encom­pass­ing peo­ple around them and their actions, ani­mals, plants, engines, and some­times hilar­i­ous nods to the human expe­ri­ence and perception.

Both of them are inter­ested in obses­sion, both within mark mak­ing and the role obses­sion plays with per­cep­tion and life in general.These guys are awesome.Amazing collaborative art!

Love this. I think it’s wonderful that one piece of art/design is being created by two people at the same time. I think the cross between graphic and illustrative styles is really interesting, vivid, and intriguing.