Packaging Postulations

So I've been tossing around ideas for product labeling on my hand knits. Today I tried out a knitted label. It took a while, I'm thinking maybe too long. I think it's cute, but I don't know if I can handle doing it for every piece I produce. I'm meticulous, but I don't have all the time in the world.



Fortunately for me my cards arrived. I ordered these last week from PSPrint. They have a deal for business cards right now, so I jumped on that 40% off for a short run. I think I'm just going to attach these rather than torture myself knitting thread weight yarn.



Are you familiar with Etsy Treasuries? They're these collections of items compiled by members under various themes. I first heard about Treasuries when I got featured in one earlier this week, then another. I was like: "I'm featured in a what?" Have a look, and leave a comment.

illustration: Shuffle

I like deconstructing things and examining the pieces in new arrangements. This image consists of elements generated in Savagery. I used just one layer of objects and proceeded to shuffle, prod, scale and arrange the objects like I was in kindergarten again.

illustration: Savagery Wallpaper

I was messing around with Savagery lastnight and made a wallpaper.
The image I used is from century_boy_too.
Click the image above for the 1024x768.

illustration: Untitled

Now that I've finished my knitting projects I'm in the mood to do an illustration. Honestly I don't really know where I'm going with this particular image, it's more a representation of how I'm feeling lately. I wonder why I feel like this....

web: PWI Wallpaper Contest

Perfect World International is an online game I've been playing lately. I entered a calendar wallpaper design contest they held recently. Surprisingly enough I won, and was featured along with the other four winners on the PWI website.



The prize was a limited edition flying mount, a giant bee. Yes, that's me: the tiger in surf trunks flying around on a giant bee.

print: Folly Poster

This is an 11x17 poster I'm working on.

illustration: Collab Piece

Illustration contributed to a collaboration project.

illustration: Phoenix Crest Project

This is something I've been meaning to do. To create this composition, I scribbled simple shapes and lines with an 8B graphite and scanned them. I used only these shapes and lines to create the bird, then used some vectors to add more color.



Here are the scanned elements I used to make the bird.
I ended up using only about 10-12 of them.

illustration: Grow #2

I made this using some recent photography of grafitti in the downtown San Jose area, and a grape vine in my back yard.

drawing: Zombie Metality

I don't remember which Resident Evil game it was, but there was a journal you find in the game belonging to a scientist working in the top secret underground facility. As the journal progresses, you find out that this scientist was bitten by a zombie, and is slowly becoming one of the undead. The first few entries, though a bit mundane, are very eloquent. In the last entry, he simply writes: "Itchy... tasty..." Despite the morbidity, I always laugh whenever I play throught the game up to that point. Remembering that journal, I messed around with one of my old zombie drawings and made this.

illustration: Tatau #1

I started this vector illustration yesterday using the photos I took at Folsom. Still a ways to go with the midtones and shadows.
Check out some other photos I shot here.

drawing: Exploring Font Forms

Sometimes I'll doodle like this to distill shapes out of fonts. This font is called 'Luftwaffe.'