Archive for the 'Design' Category

The answer to that question obviously is “yes”.

My colors? Check. Vector prints? Check. MUST HAVE? CHECK.

Click on the photo to see a bunch of Thomas Paul pillows all of which I definitely want. Now.

I took this last week in Copley Square. I fell in love and made it a wallpaper for me and now I feel like sharing!

Click here to get other sizes, including a widescreen version.

So I had six 10 x 10 canvases hanging above my desk (I could go look for a pic, but I’m lazy). They were painted in 6 solid colors: teal, lime, chocolate, pink, red and mocha. Over the weekend I wiped them and started making new paintings. Out of letters.

(If you are new, you should know I am obsessed with typography, letters, typefaces, etc in general. So why WOULDN’T I make art out of letters?)

Here is my creation in full:

And canvas by canvas:

So here’s my contest:

PART 1: Tell me what TYPEFACE/FONT all those letters are set in (be as specific as you can in describing this typeface) and
PART 2: Tell me what all those letters spell out.

A few notes on this: There is only ONE typeface used throughout. You have to figure out what I mean about specifics, which you will if you look hard enough. (Hint: I just gave you a hint). Also, and this is most important, most of the canvases are just made up of letters artfully thrown together, but if you look hard enough you can see what this graphic designer is trying to say (Hint: I just gave you a hint there too).

Also, I’ve already posted some clues and will probably post more throughout the week.

Here’s how the contest works: comment on this entry with your guesses (you have to guess BOTH parts). The names of those people who guess correctly will be thrown into a hat and I’ll draw a winner at random at the close of the contest. During the contest, you may guess as many times as you want until you think you get it correct.

CONTEST CLOSES AT 2:00 PM FRIDAY MAY 9th, 2008.

No one is excluded from this contest since I was smart enough this time and didn’t tell anyone the answers! So any of you could win the prize.

Speaking of prizes….what is this prize you ask? YOUR OWN LETTER ART CANVAS. (I had an extra canvas lying around.)

THE PRIZE: 10 x 10 Acrylic on canvas. I call it “olive on aqua”.

I’m a nerd and threw the word “blog” in there for good measure.

Although upon reevaluation, this could have been called the 2×5 project since I’ll be hanging them in 2 rows of 5 each - GET IT?

Anyway. So for the past (insert really big number) of months, the walls in my living room have been bare. This weekend I tackled one wall where I hung a series of free postcards I got at an art show (I mounted them between black craft paper and pre-cut mattes) as well as one of my own photographs [hung in a frame that I’ve inexplicably never used that Hooker got me for my birthday one year and four months ago (but who’s counting?)].

Well now I needed something on the small space of wall in between the windows.

So I dreamed up something that would look like photo tiles using some of my favorite graffiti pics from San Fran. After a trip to Blick, I decided to mount the cropped pics on 6×6 canvas board (since it’s super cheap (like $2.00!) and sold in packs of 5!).

So I got home, cropped a bunch of graffiti pics and printed them.

Except once I got them printed, I didn’t LOVE that it was all someone else’s art. So I decided to mix in some of my favorite photos too.

Take two:

I’m totally a freak about straight lines, so I use an Exacto knife and a ruler to cut the photos. Note: when cutting with an Exacto knife, remember your healing mat. Otherwise you end up destroying a perfectly good serving tray. Oops.

So after you cut out all your photos, you take your canvas board:

You take your spray mount:

and you combine. ACTION SHOT!

So once you get the spray mount on the canvas and the back of the pic, make sure they get a little tacky and then slap the pic on the board. To secure them to each other, you need to press down on the photo. But you don’t want to smear dirty fingerprints all over it, so do yourself a favor and throw something down over the photo: wax paper, tissue paper, etc (I used sheets of tracing paper).

LOOK MA! NO PRINTS!

When you’re done you have a series of awesome photo tiley looking things.

Stay tuned for the next episode - it’s a nailbiter I like to call “HANGING THEM IN TWO STRAIGHT ROWS”.

Just finished the site and got it up.

If you’re in the Boston/Quincy area, you must give this place a go. It’s delicious. Tell them Jenny sent you.

Fat Cat Restaurant