Graphic
Exploring all media of the graphic design field.
Overlapping Letterforms
Had an impulse idea, so I figure I would post it here in the spirit of this Experiments section.
Cyan&Magenta&Yellow&Black.
No pretending at all that this is an original design. The original design read “John& Paul& Ringo& George” and was created by Experimental Jetset. Since then, there had been many imitations, with the names of members of different bands.
In any case, someone needs to make a shirt like this. A quick search online resulted in no such shirt, which was surprising, since the original was so beautifully simply designed and has appeared in the Helvetica documentary.
Here’s black on white:
I Am Ivan W. Lam
Just playing with my name. Sort of copying the “I amsterdam” campaign, which I never really understood from a grammatical standpoint. At least with mine, you don’t encounter that problem at all; it’s just a name. Could be used as a cheesy self-branding piece.
Here’s an alternative, with lowercase. Slightly different feel.
Minimalist Poster
I don’t mean to clown on minimalism, for I used to be a fervent supporter of it. I just think that sometimes you do need more.
Notes from 12/15/08:
Really minimalist, Helvetica.
JE2 Album Cover
A few months ago, I was looking through the photos from one of my former Design teachers’ Facebook albums. One of the photos was a random looking design piece. The captions for that photo were instructions to generate some text and image, which you will use to put together into a album cover.