Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
2.21.2010
Workin'/Drinkin' tictacs....
Working on some UTow t-shirt ideas on some napkins at Life of Riley. You know they replaced the calamari here with prawns now. Horrible move. Also, hot waitress alert....
2.12.2010
New Stuff
Earthlings,
Just wanted to give a quick heads up that A. I've downed an entire bottle of champagne tonight working on Undertow, and B. the links section has been revamped a bit. Had a long discussion with a close friend last night about the direction of utow and so forth, and decided it's better to have our creatives split up based on project (art, design, print, etc...) instead of splitting it up based on each character.
I think this will be more conducive to viewers seeing Undertow as a whole and processing it by design style instead of trying to process three different characters at once. So to the right you should see Art, Design, Prints, and Apparel I believe. Who knows anymore after this much champagne.
-UTow.
Just wanted to give a quick heads up that A. I've downed an entire bottle of champagne tonight working on Undertow, and B. the links section has been revamped a bit. Had a long discussion with a close friend last night about the direction of utow and so forth, and decided it's better to have our creatives split up based on project (art, design, print, etc...) instead of splitting it up based on each character.
I think this will be more conducive to viewers seeing Undertow as a whole and processing it by design style instead of trying to process three different characters at once. So to the right you should see Art, Design, Prints, and Apparel I believe. Who knows anymore after this much champagne.
-UTow.
2.06.2010
Art & Concepts Book
A couple months ago, we wanted to throw together a small book with just some general ideas and concepts for new works of art. Most of the designs in the book were pretty much only in the computer, save for a couple that have actually been executed so far. The overall intention of this book was to actually get something in print that we can show to prospective galleries while making art for an eventual show. It's a little bit of a chicken or the egg kind of deal. I need to get art, but there is no show yet. I need a show, but I have no art. You get the idea.
The book was covered in a blue fabric-y (scientific term) material that we lasered the crap out of, and then to top it off we put pages in it for good measure! The first half of the book is a section with Ohb designs, and the second half features Toyhippo. We did use a double-sided matte paper that is honestly way too thick for this, but we had a box of it lying around so we put it to use. Having a nice inkjet printer and some hunnies around for encouragement helps. Also some vodka.
Check out the photo gallery of the book HERE. Or you can use the link on the right side of the page.
The book was covered in a blue fabric-y (scientific term) material that we lasered the crap out of, and then to top it off we put pages in it for good measure! The first half of the book is a section with Ohb designs, and the second half features Toyhippo. We did use a double-sided matte paper that is honestly way too thick for this, but we had a box of it lying around so we put it to use. Having a nice inkjet printer and some hunnies around for encouragement helps. Also some vodka.
Check out the photo gallery of the book HERE. Or you can use the link on the right side of the page.
2.04.2010
Diving Right In
Greetings!
So I guess this is the first official post on our new site. It's pretty exciting. Undertow has been a long time in the works and it's nice to finally get our feet wet (shameless). From concepting, to designing, to planning and preparing, it's satisfying to finally feel some accomplishment with how far we've brought it even up to this very undeveloped point. It seems like it took us a good half a year to even get our name and logo nailed down, and that all started two years ago. Yeah, there was a lot of staring at sketch books, mocking each others' ideas, crying ourselves to sleep, and overall exhaustion of creativity along the road to this point. But we wouldn't have had it any other way with how much that hard work has paid off.
We're already really busy with working on new artwork to come, as well as planning our first art show sometime in the early part of summer. We will make sure to throw out any new developments out on the blog here to keep our die-hard fans (yes I said it) posted. You can check out the links on the right side of the page for artwork of each character. More links will be added under the "undertow misc" section as more items are developed. I will be posting soon about our Undertow Art & Concepts book that we put together a couple months ago, and I also plan on profiling each Undertow character in an attempt to pull back the curtain on each of their qualities and personalities.
A facebook page is in the works as well, so make sure you are on top of that whenever it comes available and become a "fan" as they say around all the cool crowds, I've noticed.
I think that is all for now. Should be fun. Stay tuned for more and thanks for your initial support if in fact you do have any. If not, I truly apologize. Go make your own anti-aquatic animals and try to ruin our lives if it makes you feel better.
-UTow
So I guess this is the first official post on our new site. It's pretty exciting. Undertow has been a long time in the works and it's nice to finally get our feet wet (shameless). From concepting, to designing, to planning and preparing, it's satisfying to finally feel some accomplishment with how far we've brought it even up to this very undeveloped point. It seems like it took us a good half a year to even get our name and logo nailed down, and that all started two years ago. Yeah, there was a lot of staring at sketch books, mocking each others' ideas, crying ourselves to sleep, and overall exhaustion of creativity along the road to this point. But we wouldn't have had it any other way with how much that hard work has paid off.
We're already really busy with working on new artwork to come, as well as planning our first art show sometime in the early part of summer. We will make sure to throw out any new developments out on the blog here to keep our die-hard fans (yes I said it) posted. You can check out the links on the right side of the page for artwork of each character. More links will be added under the "undertow misc" section as more items are developed. I will be posting soon about our Undertow Art & Concepts book that we put together a couple months ago, and I also plan on profiling each Undertow character in an attempt to pull back the curtain on each of their qualities and personalities.
A facebook page is in the works as well, so make sure you are on top of that whenever it comes available and become a "fan" as they say around all the cool crowds, I've noticed.
I think that is all for now. Should be fun. Stay tuned for more and thanks for your initial support if in fact you do have any. If not, I truly apologize. Go make your own anti-aquatic animals and try to ruin our lives if it makes you feel better.
-UTow
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