Gracepoint After Five

I heard about Alltop on Smashing Magazine so I decided to check it out. This is what I saw on it’s homepage: Smashing Magazine Strobist, DPreview, Joe McNally’s Blog, Digital Photography School Mac Rumors, Mac World Lifehacker, Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki Wow!  How did Alltop anticipate all of my interests?  It was like it knew [...]

If you were given the task of making a commercial for something — and you were given all the resources you’ll ever need — what would you do? Of course, it depends on what that something is, but what is your first natural inclination? What would you be striving towards? The cool factor? Show how [...]

If I could give a few tips (aside from these) to new designers, it would be: Be careful in following after trends (some people love using flares; I hate the depth of field junk) Develop a good color sense

As exciting and wonderful as the Christmas season can be, we also know how long and boring it can get. Rather than sitting at home and doing nothing, here’s a book list from yours truly that will keep you busy. I’ve trimmed it down to one essential book for each category. If you’re just dying [...]

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. Much has been said about inspirations lately, but one thing I do want to mention: inspirations alone do not produce great work. Thomas Edison1 was onto something when he said that “none of [his] inventions came by accident.” It takes work and effort. A lot of it. [...]

Previously, I talked about my efforts in making a particularly difficult component (water on people) look good. In this post, I’m going to speed through the other areas of the poster. The base elements As usual, much time was spent in looking for good stock photography. Perusing Flickr, it wasn’t long before I spotted the [...]

Update: Part 2 of the design process is now up. This upcoming Saturday, Kairos Christian Fellowship will be having a getaway in the sierras. Unfortunately, that coincides with the big Cal vs. USC home game. As a way to draw students to choose the sierra trip over the game, we designed a poster for this [...]

Good artists copy, great artists steal, as the saying goes. It’s not news to anyone that we, as artists — nay, as human beings — are constantly being inspired by something. I’ve already written two posts on videos that were inspired from elsewhere (check out 1 and 2), and why they worked. Unfortunately, it is [...]

Every year, after the New Student Welcome Night, each of the three sponsoring groups (a2f, Koinonia, and Kairos) put on their own Welcome Nights. Usually, the postcard graphic will be displayed on the respective websites, providing information about the event. This year, Kairos decided to try another route: we went the way of the poster. [...]

This video featuring a number of directors talking about the difference between viewing films in widescreen vs. pan & scan (TV) struck me as very insightful. The framing of an experience–in this case, a movie–is a very thought out set of decisions made by the director and cinematographer. In the same way, framing what to [...]