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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Evaluating Interest

I recently ordered a poster from Jonathan Koshi (The LEGO one), and I started thinking. I've got a couple of designs done over the years for amusement, some of which I briefly (and rather unsuccessfully) attempted to sell as t-shirts. I've been meaning to get some of them printed as posters, and thought that I might have some success selling them. So, I'd like to see what kind of interest people have in the following designs. Which (if any) would you consider purchasing if it were available as a poster? And - because I'm pretty inexperienced as far as these things go - I'd love any suggestions you might have as far as selecting a printing company, style of printing, type of paper, etc. Out of the lot, my favorites are Red Golf, the Top Hat Appreciation Society, and Escher, You Bastard.

Note: If you want one of these printed, please leave a comment telling me so! I can't decide if I don't get any input!

Without further ado:

Red Golf

Justice vs. Ninjas (I'm a bit sure about the color scheme on this one - either print it on colored paper or change the scheme?)

Reject Propaganda

The following sketches would obviously be updated to digital format and edited somewhat. For example, I'd probably go for a Victorian-age look for the Top Hat Appreciation Society.

Top Hat Appreciation Society

Escher, You Bastard

Thanks for any input you might have!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

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Spring semester has started! Yaaaaay! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Okay, done being enthusiastic.

Actually, I'm somewhat more enthusiastic about this semester than last, in hopes that the classes might be a bit more interesting (Not that last semester wasn't good - I had Nobel Prize winner Thomas Cech as my professor and that was fantastic). Besides the requisite chemistry and biology courses, I'm taking Calculus 3, which I'm relatively excited for, and "Advanced First-Year Writing", which I'm not as excited for. I feel like IB pounded writing into us, and find it irritating that college doesn't count the IB experience for writing courses. So, here I am. Being forced to take a writing course. There is one thing that may redeem the course, though, and that is that the professor allows us to do our "reading responses" in whatever genre we want. For the first, we're responding to a piece about the various ways that the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were portrayed. I decided to respond using a propaganda poster:

(Click for DeviantArtness!)

The "Reject Propaganda - Accept Truth" slogan is derived from my observation that almost every portrayal of the incident seemed to be saying, essentially, "The other sources are unreliable and just Communist/Capitalist/whateverist propaganda. Go with our perspective, instead!". This sort of message seems to be fairly commonplace, really. The 'Department of Truth' was something I came up with, but in retrospect, it was probably subconsciously derived from 1984's Ministry of Truth. In any case, if the professor is alright with this sort of thing as a reading response, then writing class might not be as bad as I'd feared.

In vaguely-writing-related-news, I did a quasi-calligraphic sketch over break for the fictional Top Hat Appreciation Society:

(Click for Artistic Deviance!)

I'm rather proud of the flourishes and whatnot, though much of it came from Google Image-ing and a silly amount of improvisation. It's definitely not the sort of typography/handwriting which I'm used to. The flourishing and decoration is quite amusing to do, though.