How'd you do that? supplemental materials

This post is intended to compliment my lecture for the Google hangout How'd you do that? It includes a few links of good resources to compliment some of the suggestions that I made for artists to exercise their skills such as: doing a drawing a day, figure drawing, drawing from life, always carrying a sketchbook, etc.

Gesture Drawing
Figure & Gesture Drawing (free)
Online Life Drawing (paid)

Story Cubes for developing writing skills.

The below series of images is an exercise that I developed intended to help people begin to strengthen the recognition of visual similarities between dissimilar objects/concepts and to synthesizes the objects/concepts based on the their commonality. The ideal result of this would be to effortlessly perform the same task to create new insight or develop visual metaphors.

Other examples of the results from the same process.

 

What kind of thinking this approach leads to.

Annual Arts Panel William & Mary

I will be speaking as part of an arts panel 8pm March 20th at William and Mary in their Commonwealth Auditorium. 

The College of William & Mary has annual arts panels with several notable artists in various fields who are prompted with questions to provide insight and educate students. Some of the notable participants in this series have been the rapper, Kitty Pryde and author, Bob Woodward.
 

I was chosen for my campaign, "I Dream of a Richmond ...",  a nominee in the AIGA's International Cross Cultural design Competition, "XCD." This campaign has also been recently published in "The Design Activists Handbook," authored by Noah Scalin & Michell Taute. 

Voice By Design at Tidewater Community College

I will be lecturing on my design work and process April 30th 12:30-1:30pm Rooms 208, 209 at the Visual Arts Center of Portsmouth. (Can't take credit for the flyer. Thanks for working on that Visual Arts Center folks!)

Comic Hangout: "How Did You Do That?"

I will be one of several speakers for this inside look at the process of making webcomics. 

INFO
Join +Little Fish Studio as we take a closer look at the process that five different digital comic creators go through to create their web comics. This hangout will feature sections of time where we will look at some radically different approaches to digital comic creation.

Hosted by +Patrick Yurick co-creator of http://american.booom.us and +Little Fish Studio 

Guest Panelists include:

+Mark Luetke of http://2816monument.com/
+Crystal Rollins of http://aspect.waywardstudios.net/
+Scott King  of http://www.holiday-wars.com/
+Emily Gillis of http://www.waywardstudios.net
+Bizhan Khodabandeh of http://www.richmondmonuments.com/

VCUarts Dept of CA

I promised to post some of the work that I am doing for the VCU Communications Art Department as their Communications Director. I have also been doing several quick announcement posters for the department that I didn't post in this entry. You may click all of these to enlarge.


Logo


Logo system utilizing the negative space in the "A" as a future system for patterns and grids.



Front page of the soon to be launched website. That is being co-designed and coded by Mark Leutke of the Deans Office Communications Dept.



Posters for the front office. Below are photos of them on site.

Us China Typographic Poster Exchange.

Switched out the below version for this updated one.


My own submission to this traveling poster exhibition. More info about dates and venues can be found at www.typoshow.com

Mission
In March of 2013, an exhibition of 100 typographic posters by 50 American and 50 Chinese designers will begin their tour in China. On June, 7th, 2013 this same collection will begin its tour in the United States starting at Richmond, Virginia's Gallery5.

The mission of this exhibition is to introduce both culture's respective use of typography while helping us better understand our own use of language and inspire new typographic approaches. Exhibition date
China:From May,2013
America:From June,2013

The City I Live In Poster Exhibit

My contribution to the upcoming MoB invitational show in Richmond, Virginia. The show will be up at VCU's MoB space (205 E Broad ST). It opens March 1st during the First Friday Art walk. Be sure to check it out. There is a lot of great talent in this exhibition.

A special thanks to John Malinoski for the invite!

Comic forum with pro comic artists Reilly Brown

poster by Bizhan Khodabandeh, comic page by Reilly Brown

VCUarts Department of Communication Arts presents a ...
Comic forum with professional comic artist & illustrator,Reilly Brown

FREE
Feb 11th 3:30PM-5PM
at the VCU Student
Commons Theatre
907 Floyd Ave.


BIO Reilly Brown, currently spends most of his time working for Marvel. He has worked on several books, including: Cable & Deadpool, Incredible Hercules, Prince of Power, New Warriors, and Amazing Spider-Man, as well as a bunch of other things. Brown has an art studio in Brooklyn and is a founding member of TenTonStudios.com. One of his current independent projects is PowerPlay, a comic about superheros playing street games across the five boroughs of New York City.

(I've been working as the Communications Director at VCUarts Department of Communication Arts developing posters, a new identity system, front end site design etc. I'll post more later. For now check out this great event!)

Little Black Fish book review

I recently received a book review by James Moffitt of RVA Magazine, for my comic adaptation of "The Little Black Fish" Check it out here.

Blush On Berry

I designed the logo, business cards and signage for a boutique wedding collective in Richmond, Virginia. They are located at 425 Strawberry Street, Richmond, Virginia

More info about Blush On Berry
Blush on Berry LLC, is a first-of-its-kind boutique wedding collective in Richmond, Virginia representing hand-chosen wedding professionals from each main trade in the wedding community. All of our participating vendors represent established businesses that continue to receive wonderful reviews for their work with brides and grooms, venues and vendors from across the state. This storefront located at 425 Strawberry Street, right in the heart of the fan, is your "everything" bridal boutique where clients can meet with their chosen wedding professional and receive additional information on participating vendors that meet their tastes and needs. Blush on Berry appreciates the talents and services of the entire wedding community and also strives to create a non-exclusive environment so as to continue our support and encouragement of all our Richmond wedding professionals. In addition to serving as a cozy meeting space for clients and their families, Blush on Berry offers a growing selection of eclectic retail including wedding accessories, bridal gifts, favors and decor.