This is the Front of my book

Table of Contents

Squishy Says Hi

Original Image

Original image with background knocked out

Pirate Squishy

Duotone Squishy

Squishy Deconstructed

Squishy Repeated

Squishy Punk Rockified

Squishy Liquid Filter

Squishy Silhouette

Squishy Halftone

Squishy B&W

Squishy Color enhanced

Squishy Yo

Squishy Printing

Designed by Marcus in Oregon

Squishy Dots

Squishy Penciled out

Squishy Crumpled

Squishy Crumpled on Zebra

Squishy in Boxers

Squishy Warhol

Squishy Inversed

Squishy Ransom note

Squishy Contrast Brightness turned up

Squishy Phone

Squishy Transform Tool Explore

Squishy Blue Button FX

Squishy Yarn

Squishy Bye

this is a really delayed posting of my Frank Chimero Inspired piece. It’s the Oregon Dog:

The States: Oregon-Front

The States: Oregon-Back

I used the Same colors on the front as well as the back of the Image, with the exception of the grey. The Kitty is actually Pennsylvania, if you turn it onto it’s right side.

Photo 1

I like the bright colors and the textures of this photo.

Photo #2

This is a photo I took at 30,000 feet

Photo #3

I like the depth of this photo and think it would look like it was going into the building.

Photo 4

It’s the colors in this photo that I think I like the best

Pattern #1

A pattern that I think would look really cool on the building, I like the psychedelic effect it gives.

I will upload more patterns as I make them.

Original McDonald's Logo

This is the original McDoald’s Logo.

McDonald's Logo Process

This is the logo creation in process

McDonald's Logo Process

Further into the process

McDonald's logo process

The last step in the pen process before doing finishing touches.

Semi finished Logo

This is the logo before some final tweaks

Final Logo

This is the final Logo after some final tweaks.

The Process was an interesting one. The pen tool was harder to learn than I expected. However once I learned how it behaved ot became a little easier. However I am still not completely comfortable with it, and I do hope to learn more about it soon.

Oregon Process

My First idea, based on Frank’s “The States”.

PA Process

Second idea, Pennsylvania

Oregon original

Original image of Oregon

Pennsylvania Original

Original of Pennsylvania

Frank teaches design and typography at Missouri State University. He also frequently contributes his writing and illustrations to Thinking for a Living. Chimero’s fascination with the creative process, curiosity, and visual experience informs all of his work. Each piece is the part of an exploration in finding wit, surprise, honesty and joy in the world around us. For Frank, the work is play, and the play is work. His clients include: The New York Times, Business Week, Starbucks, Fast Company, American Airlines, Edizioni Corraini Press, and Good Magazine.

(Bio from http://www.frankchimero.com/info)

Some examples of his work:

Missouri, part of his "The States" series.

Illinois, also part of his "The States" series

Nerdfest

I really love his use of real life objects and how he kind of “funk-a-fies” them. They seem almost 50′s/60′s mod to me, which is an era of design I really liked, but at the same time really seem up to date.

I think I am going to be doing something akin to his “The States” series.

@ Pattern

I really liked the way the symbols fit together. It’s something we see every day but never see it this way.

2 Pattern edited

For pattern 4 I used a Upper case H in OCR A Std in size 48 font.

H Pattern

I really liked the assignment however it was somewhat difficult with a few of them. Most of my patterns were very simple, not very intricate. If I were to do this again in the future I would really like to try and make some more intricate and delicate patterns.