Frankenstein Posters

Since Halloween is coming up and Frankenstein Friday is upon us I thought today would be another good day to make a poster:

A place I was recently!

It was my first time visiting Denver recently. A fun and fast trip to be sure.

Not Forgotten

Rebuilding Hope

Created in early July. Movie poster re-design. This is a documentary people I know worked on about four boys returning as adults to their birth villages in Sudan. 

Argyle: a very silly pattern

For the last week of June. This is a lesson I have been trying to learn, and had it rubbed in my face tonight by a guy who is right but also kind of an ass. So be the crazy argyle of the world... not the boring green plaid! In other words be your self; do it your way. Sometimes I have to be reminded, which is kind of sad I suppose. I guess tonight I kind of felt like argyle?

A Skull soaked in Blood

For the week in June towards the end. This week I have been working on a project referencing the Loteria Cards and Día de los Muertos so playing with skulls worked it's way into the poster. 

Sunny Junabell

For the week ending on June 13th. It has been so sunny lately I have am starting to worry! It is Seattle after all! How every I have been thinking of beach/tropical places to go. 

Sasquatch Remake

Went a head a continued making the poster what I wanted it to be. 

Hand Draw You Crazy Type

Drew this today, a Tuesday late in May.  Hand-drawn poster!

Busy Busy Move Move

For the week  before Memorial day weekend. My week has been very busy, meeting new people. I have been thinking a lot about a conversation I had with someone from Hemlock last night. This was his advise to me: Whatever you do just keep moving. 

"Keep Calm and Carry On"

After completing last week's poster referencing the "Keep calm and carry on" vintage WWII posters, I was rather shocked upon learning that we would be painting it as a mural that weekend. The mural was a Link Program project I was volunteering for and just so happened to include the "Keep calm and cary on' message. The original poster has a really interesting history which you can read about here.

Below are more iterations of this poster I found recently:

The Thoughts That Go Through My Head

This poster created for the week of May 12th. This week I have had a terrible head cold so not only did I want to do something simple but I have also been watching endless amounts of BBC shows. Therefor, I decided to re-created the classically British WWII poster with my design motto. 

Green starts to fade as May Begins

For the week beginning in April and ending in May 2009. This was a kind of dare: do something with an octopus and make it a pirate. What do you think?

Too Much Sun today? Never!

Created for the week of April 21 2009. Started with the idea about birds tweeting a cute little message. But then the elephant and some sun light attacked my head. A good message for head and the job search. 

April by Theme and Green

For the week containing April 16th. Keeping with the theme that seems to be take over this month: Green. I started thinking about doing a "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle," or as I saw in Singapore: "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rebuild," or a "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost" poster. So while I was working on building up the green, I started listening to a "Stuff Mom Never Told You" pod-cast about your brain and wanting to buy things. Which lead to thoughts about how I don't ware half the shoes I own, mainly due to the fact they need to be repaired. Anyway I think you can see where that lead...

Will post sasquatch poster sketches soon! Cheers.

March Poster 4

Created March 26th. When I started this poster I was thinking about the background patterns of the beautiful paintings in "Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Painting of Jodhpur" a show I recently saw at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. I started off working on the pattern but things kind of went awry when my thoughts turned to rummage sales.

March Poster 3

Created 3rd week of March for a Circus theme Birthday Party. It was used for invites and my boyfriend printed it on to a t-shirt to be the poster boy.

Pictures from EMP Poster Lecture

Poster Shows!!!

Attended a panel discussion of some of Seattle's top poster artists at EMP (wednesday) and The Stranger's Poster of the Week opening (last night) at Vermillion.

Designers that spoke at EMP were:
Barry Ament, Coby Schultz
Ames Bros.

Don Clark, Ryan Clark
Invisible Creature, Tooth & Nail

Art Chantry
Art Chantry Design Co.

Jeff Kleinsmith
Patent Pending Industries, Sub Pop

Also got to see some of: American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print.

Have a couple of pictures to upload and add. I took a lot of notes and sketched, because that is what you do when you get a chance to list to such people talk about work, feeling inspired, motivated, and creative. I need attend more such lecture type events because it reminds me of being in school and that feeling like I can go out and do anything.

February Poster

Created the last week of February. This is the poster that started it all, created following the Facebook poster challenge guidelines:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More... Read More” or clickhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post it to FB with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in. (you can untag yourself if you don't want this photo up)