Blasphemy!

I'm taking a course in typeface design and the assignment was to take something that was done in a particular style or school and reinterpret it in a different style. So, like an idiot, I chose to redesign The Beatles White Album. It seemed like a good idea at the time, of course voting for Ronald Reagan in 1980 seemed like a good idea too, but that's a different story. It turns out that the Beatles were planning on naming the album A Doll's House after the Ibsen play but shortly before its release another group released an album titled Song's From The Doll's House and it was determined that the similarities were too great so the Beatles scrapped the title altogether. This sent the design for the jacket cover in to a tailspin and without a title or concept (the album is just a collection of songs) it was decided to release the album without a jacket design - essentially blank. The white album design is quintessentially "modern" in the Swiss style and my challenge was to redesign it in a post-modern style, saddled with all the same limitations i.e., no title, concept or direction. I chose to create individual logos for all thirty songs and lay them out on the jacket as they would look when the jacket was unfolded (it's a double album).

Point of View

What's your point of view?

Hey, long time, no see...

It's been a while since my last post so I thought I'd put something up. I took these for Digital Imaging with Hickman. Photographers rarely photograph themselves. We always seem to be looking away at something outside ourselves. These images represent three of my favorite things: my Harley, my art, and my dog. If I could get paid to just ride my bike around the country with my dog and take pictures at bike rallies, I'd be a happy man.

website update

I've just completed an update to my website with a new area for layout designs. Check it out!

And the hits just keep on comin'

This link tells a sad story, my friends. Rollie cameras is going out of business. I've never owned one - mostly because I couldn't afford it - but still, I hate to see this. On a side note, Online Photographer also reports on a new lens by Pentax. I love Pentax. In fact, I often wish I had bought one instead of a Nikon. What?! Isn't that blasphemy? Some people would say so. I'll tell you, if I were in the market for a new DSLR, I'd go with the Pentax K20D. You get a lot of camera for the money and their lenses are world-class. Nikon and Canon make good stuff, don't get me wrong, but unless you're a globe-trotting pro who has to have access to the widest range of lenses and accessories available, you really don't need to pay the extra money for the name.