Abstract

Finished new tutorial. Now I feel more confident while working in Illustrator.

Artist: Charles Avery

Charles Avery was born 1973 Birth Isle of Mull, Scotland.

Lives and works in London UK.

Agency: Disturbance Studio

Click on the image to check the website

Artist: Dan Attoe

"Dan Attoe is a painter, sculptor, bullfighter and founder of art group Paintallica. He was born in 1975 and is represented by Peres Projects in LA and Berlin. Attoe was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1975 and moved through Idaho, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa before choosing his current location near Portland, Oregon. Attoe attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he first studied psychology, and later art. He earned his first and final Bachelor degree credits at UW-Marathon County before earning his Masters at Iowa City University.

Attoe's work often touches on the grittier parts of both rural and urban life colored with a mystical form of existentialism."

Soviet Phantom in our life

Some of the old houses in Almaty still have some "Soviet Voice" on them.
This house was build in 1953

20 years ago, the most posh and respectful thing was a car garage.
Only governmental workers and rich people had it. Now, they are standing without any owner

This is a normal view. Expensive Mercedes standing near awful dirty garages. No one care.
We just build a 20 floor skyscrapers in the middle of the old ugly yards

Some Bad Views of my city

Culture Shock 4 U ( Not suitable for Greenpeace and Vegans:))))

One week before my homecoming, my father went to the Deer Hunting. They spent 3 days on horses in mountains, and finally brought some deer meat :) 2 days ago, we invited our friend for the evening of 'home food'. My mother and me made a whole big slice of baked meat. So , I made some shots to show you. Still cannot forget some people last year, who asked " Does Russia and Soviet Union countries have any food? We thought you have only bread and water". Watch:

My mother stuffing meat with garlic

New tutorial work

I spent 2 says for it. Overall 10 hours. Great job :)

The Dieline Award Winners (Package)

Waitrose Breadsticks, Third Place (Food B)

Turner Duckworth designed a new packaging system for
breadsticks sold at UK supermarket chain Waitrose.

 

Tube belt,  Third Place (Books, Office & Art Supplies, Toys, Clothes/Accessories)

cubegrafik in Switzerland designed this postal-friendly package
for Tube, a belt handmade from recycled bicycle tubes.

 

JAQK Cellars, Third Place (Wine, Beer, Tobacco)

Inspired by the Jack, Ace, Queen, and King in the deck of cards,
San Francisco’s Hatch Design injects a little fun into a new line of California wine.

 

Self Education part II

New 3D Artist

This 3D images made by 17 years old Chilean boy named Fredo. They are just amazing. I wish I would draw as good as he does!!!!!

Kazakhstan Censor

I will write my posts very rare, because of the Censorship in Kazakhstan. Few years ago, there had been a governmental problem with our president's son in law. He left the country and made a blog in the very popular server- Liveinternet.ru.  He started writing about all governmental secrets and bad things about our President. That is why this blogging resource is now closed for the usage in Kazakhstan. Unfortunately, Blogspot is closed as well. I have the only one place where I can open Blogger and writ a post. So, I am going to write very rare however with quite big amount of posts. 

Winter holidays. Self Education

I decided to spend my holidays time for self education. I am doing loads of tutorials in Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash. Want to improve my software skills. It will be useful for my further GDF development and so on.  That's what I've done for last two days:

Award-winning print design from Cannes Lions 2010

Them-and-Us, Bronze

Disturbance Studio in Durban, South Africa put together this book for Amnesty International,
pairing together 20 European and 20 African visual artists, designers, illustrators
and photographers to explore the similarities and the differences between their
respective worldviews and visual sensibilities.

Book That Never Shuts Up, Bronze

Spain’s F33 designed this book for the Festival la Mar de Músicas
featuring the work of Democracy, a collective of artists.

Think you design the worst logo ever?

 There is a competition for the WORST logo design!

 How Low Can Your Logo?

Award-winning identities from Cannes Lions 2010

Episteme Skincare, Bronze

Dentsu Kansai of Osaka, Japan created an identity for
Rohto Pharmaceutical’sEpisteme line of luxury skincare products.

 I find this work very aesthetic, however it is a little bit not clear what is what. The only thing I can say for sure is that overall view is very beautiful!

Nook, Bronze

R/GA in New York came up with the name and designed the identity for Nook,
Barnes & Noble’s first e-reader.

Some of my collages

Yep. Finished one week ago. Photographed all of them. Sorry for no cropping. Photoshop is dead :(

Just Played Around with Image Excercises.

Typefaces

It took me a little bit long to collect interesting typefaces in London. Some people had an idea of "typeface series" like 'night type', 'sign type' and so on. So, I found my own inspiration. I've been collecting typefaces with help of the most important and most popular places in our life: PUBS. English Pubs' typefaces are very traditional. Gold colour, black layout, funny names. I love them. Even if I know the I never use them in my life.

Ideas for GDF

During this week everything was about ideas generating and making visuals. Check some of them.  Just to remind - I did it during three days. so sorry for quality.