I needed to illustrate an inappropriate use of typefaces...
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Happy New Year!
(What year is this one now?)
—Gary
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I needed to illustrate an inappropriate use of typefaces...
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Happy New Year!
(What year is this one now?)
—Gary
Nice illustration Gare. I think you succeeded because those typefaces are inappropriate for that use.
Thanks, Larry. Typography is something I feel is under-considered in art. Actually, I worked very hard to get the look and feel of a prescription label to force the contrast between a subject that's serious in tone, and the goofy fonts that totally undercut the message.
Here's another "criminal" use of the wrong font for a message.
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Fonts are what you dress your words up in! :)
My Best,
—Gary
excellent render :thx
Thank you! More and more I'm living in Luxology modo for 3D stuff, because it uses a physically-based lighting and camera system. It takes getting acclimated to; I'm completely ashamed of the first 6 months of renders I pulled before understanding physics!
—g
I told a friend of mine that I'd been busy working on a Mackintosh all day. He said, "I thought you used Windows."
:)
Rennie Mackintosh was at the forefront of the Scottish Arts and Crafts movement Circa 1920s. His furniture was not comfortable but then I guess Art isn't always a comfy place to sit upon. Gary P. turned me onto the typeface turn-of-last-century, thanks Og!
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funny! ;))Quote:
I told a friend of mine that I'd been busy working on a Mackintosh all day. He said, "I thought you used Windows."
I like the furniture it looks good.
Thanks, and I don't remember who created the typeface, but it's pretty representative and authentic compared to Mr. Mackintosh's furniture and other appointments.
—Gary
There was a famous Architect who I can't remember the name of who also designed furniture, which your examples remind me of. Anyway my secretary just loved his stuff and it also looked very uncomfortable to use.
Larry, the famous designer who was also an architect might have been Frank Lloyd Wright? He came after the Arts and Crafts movement, both in Europe and America, and was a downright jerk, albeit a brilliant jerk, about feeding his own ego versus what he was commissioned to do. The Guggenheim Museum on 5th Avenue in NYC is an example of his work. Beautiful architecture, and a homage to his own work, not the pieces inside the museum! One of the complaints from patrons is that the spiraling hallway is so narrow, you can't step back to appreciate some of the larger paintings.
Anyone else would have been fired, sued, and killed, perhaps in that order. But Frank Lloyd Wright is an American Icon, so you don't punish self-centered genius.
Or perhaps it was a different artist you're thinking of! :)
The bottom line is that for comfort, you can't beat the designer who invented a beanbag chair.
My 2¢ on a dreary NY Sunday,
Gary
P.S. Frank? Nice animation! And I've always thought that Putin looks like Smeagel in Lord of the Rings.
It was simply my homage to the misspelling of Mackintosh :thx
I think it's terrific, Frank, that we have such an intricate English language that there are at least three different and correct spellings of this three-syllable word: Macintosh, usually followed by a registered trademark symbol, McIntosh, which is the apple, not the Apple, and the Mackintosh, which is a raincoat invented by Charles Macintosh, who I guess misspelled his own name. Fortunately, he sold his weather gear in 1824 so Apple didn't have a chance to sue him.
Not to be confused with (or deliberately to be confused with) McIntosh audio equipment, which I believe is out of business now, but made excellent power amps back in the 1970s, and who tried to press a suit against Apple Computers when they began to get into audio.
Guess who won?
;)
I put up a vector version of a burger and shake in the Clipart area of tg, and by design (pardon the pun) it's supposed to look like an artist's airbrush conception of fast food. Here's a twist with the rendered models I sculpted here: if you're bothering to imitate photography, you've already made the point if certain areas come close. I didn't see the point in spending hours just to deceive the viewer's eye, so I took the rightful opportunity to do something surreal, blending it into an otherwise photoreal composition.
And if you've ever tried the real thing, you know this picture is surreal, because fast food fries are anything but "light"...
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My Best,
Gary
Surreal also because I have never seen a Big Mac that looks so good and well assembled. ;)
If you're not familiar with his work, look up Claes Oldenburg in the Wikipedia.
Because my Big Mac, an actual Big Mac, and one of Claes' sculptures all taste the same.
—Gary
Your work and Claes' have visual appeal. :D
Coffee to go with the burger.
Or not.
I'm kidding. Actually, I did this as an exercise to try to mimic Manhattan's ultra-hip, super-expensive boutique dining places. Two traits: the use of white or light colors, oddly, considering there is no white in NYC, just off-white, and the use of Helvetica and messing with upper and lower case.
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My Best,
Gary
Now that's a great image. I like the french curve as steam
I created a very simple example to demonstrate what different lenses look like and where a vanishing point might be in a scene.
So once again, this ain't Art...it's education. :)
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My Best,
—Gary
Funny, Mike—my Art History exam first year in college was one question: What is Art?
Anyone who attempted to answer it, failed. I thought it was a fair test, I got an A-, by demonstrating that you can describe Art, but you really can't define it.
Here's two more from what I'll call my Perspective Period.
:)
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My Best,
Gary
I like the last one the best, to me the perspective view makes a more interesting image.
I was just playing with the look of a magazine ad the other day, trying to capture the essence of a liquor ad.
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I like the splashing water and the goldfish is a nice touch.
Thanks!
As I mentioned, it's not what the art says, it's the tone, the way it's laid out that was important to imitate and capture.
And I hope you never own a goldfish that large! That's a Mangrove Red Snapper I downloaded from this free 3D website The water and bottle are my own sculptures, but I don't have the artistic chops to do a fish yet.
-g-
A music CD cover I illustrated, the muse of music, of course! :)
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Here's an earlier attempt, when I didn't know what I was trying to get across:
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—g
very nice. :)
This is mostly color and image depth. The objects weren't all that hard to sculpt!
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My Best,
Gary
I have no idea where these two images came from...
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I did this because I don't believe in relying on cloud storage...so I still burn music CDs.
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That box looks familar! :)
The record with the plastic converter piece in the center brings back memories!
It's actually a different box model than the one I supplied on a Xara Xone tutorial, Frances, but it could have been. One of the things I like about modeling is re-usability. A box, a lamp, whatever, can be posed and colored differently and become a part of a new scene.
Now, here is the same box. Different contents.
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My Best,
Gary
In the 1990s, I thought the coolest thing you could do with a modeling program is build a chess set, imitation being flattery, and a chess set is almost as iconic as a tea kettle in the 3D field.
I did this recently to illustrate an article on The Xara Xone.
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I think it's just fun to bend stuff that shouldn't or can't be easily bent in the Real World (which I visit occasionally).
-gary
This is an unfinished logo idea.
It needs initials inside the circle; the client didn't go for it.
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The music eventually will be real, but the orchestra isn't. An "anechoic chamber" is a device used by military contractors to test sonar and microwave transmitting hardware.
In theory, an anechoic chamber orchestra wouldn't make any sound at all.
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-g
I'd originally created the chapter pages in the Xara Xtreme Guide as "white on white" pieces but the publisher told me, "It's a color book. Use color."
Here's the original, though, which I think forces the composition less.
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-g
A birthday card for my mom. Luxology modo and Photoshop.
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—g