Skate Tag!

First I mounted it but had a hard time bending it in half so I scrapped that idea and just roughed up the edges to add more of a grungy effect. I really dig the look and, hell, I'd buy the blades!

Sk8 Deck & Blade Tag

My skate deck is all ready to be handed in. I got the sticker done at Marco's studio downtown and he did a great job printing it. Looks great and I am very happy with it!






The colours are reversed for some reason. In the jpeg files I uploaded they are normal but the blue and orange seem to be reversed. Anyways here is my design that I am to get printed this weekend. The blue looks pretty cool actually. Hmm?

message from gloria

Makes me wish I did I better job on frosty but I am happy to see it was good for something! Thank you Gloria!

"On 5 Apr '07, 10.15am EDT gloriadawsonphoto said:

Hi Christopher,

I love Frosty! Very funny and smart. I’m working on this environmental website and I think it would be perfect- add a bit of smart humor and all. Would you be interested in having your photo shown there… I could give you credit and link back to your site.

Here’s the scoop with the website:
It’s an environmental website called” The Daily Green” set to launch on earth day April 22nd. It's all about leading a more conscious, natural foods oriented and earth-friendly lifestyle. We’ll have a photography section- photos that show global warming effects, droughts ect but I’d love to add a bit of something else in there- Frosty would be perfect.

Let me know what you think.

gloria"

Toy Package

Well, here is how my box turned out. It not only makes a bold statement on the environment but shows how under-rated barcodes are... oops.






What I think I am going to do with th sk8 deck assignment is this Warhol take on Lincoln. I call it Babe Lincoln. I am going to put some text above the image and the pond 70 logo beneath. Couldn't get the Illustrator file on my computer cause I have an older version I guess.

Whatta day

Last week I took the posters I have printed and made a few collages on my storages boxes. I thought it would look cool to make furniture with ripped up, street poster like collages covering the surfaces. I really like the way it turned out. I found some cool bookstores downtown that sell old 50's Saturday Evening Post mags so I took some cheesy ads and included them. Also found some flower pattern gift wrap at Honest Ed's for a buck. I am gonna do a whole table next and see how it turns out. I will tackle that once I have more posters made so it doesn't look exactly like the boxes.






I almost have my box design finished - I just want to throw on a few small details because I am noticing how packed with detail toy packaging is. There is definitely an art to it and it takes more time then I imagined. I thought I would just throw something together but now I am really getting into it and making something I actually appreciate. I haven't posted a final pic of my snowman so I'll do that. If you read this Andrew: could I use that spray you had on Monday? I wouldn't mind giving it a coat on Monday when I hand it in. It looked like great stuff.




In other news, today I got mugged in broad daylight just off campus in The Village. This black guy bikes up to me with a black bandanna over his mouth and tells me not to move and says that he's serious. He said I better give him my money and my cell phone or he'll "cut my face off" as he shuffled in his coat. I told him that I don't have anything and showed him an empty wallet. He pulled my shirt and said he wants my cell phone or whatever I've got. I said I don't have a cell phone and shrugged my shoulders. I wasn't worried cause I didn't have anything. Still holding me by the shirt he tosses me away like a piece of trash and tells me to get the fuck outta here then. As he biked away he told me I best not call the cops - I did and it was a big mistake. I just wanted to inform people that that was going on so nobody got hurt but 3 cruisers and 5 cops showed up at my apartment to take my statement. I wanted to tell them to get the hell out of here and go find the guy. He apparently robbed a girl in my building too. So that pretty much was my whole day. After the cops left I went to school and there was no class so basically I could have stayed at home all day and avoided this whole mess. Oh well. Good times I guess. The lowlife asshole didn't get anything from me. Glad I didn;t have my Macbook or Nikon D40. That would have sucked real bad. Sorry, no pics of the event!

In class notes [4sk8dek]

Templates - 4x/full size
Include: samples, cost, time
Due: blog, time/cost, two pencil concepts

Weekend Update

Well, I'm uncertain as to how this will turn out but. Last night a poured some wax to enhance the dripping effect and I am now coating it with some dollar store acrylic white paint.

SS culpy

Okay so I forgot to mention the theme a concept of my snowman being that he will be called Frosty "The Globally Warmed" Snowman who will be half melted and the box will be horrifying reality of smokestacks and factories. Maybe I'll throw some cartoon children with gas masks on there? Why not?

Stupid snowman melting or something..

Okay, this super sculpy shit is not working for me. I can't fuckin' do it! It's like making a toy out of snow or something - on that note, I am making a melting spring snowman who will be wearing a snazzy vest and top hat. I've tried working with this stuff every night this week and it never works out for me. This is better then nothing. I admit it, I'm not a toy designer!

ha!

some links 'n ya ya

i noticed i haven't been linking my pages properly. flickr: click. myspace music: click. personal website: click.

now we're all caught up. still working on posters. here's one i did on that beautiful sunny day - umm, tuesday! spring felt good.

Working on some poster.. things...

i started another myspace for music related stuff. myspace.com/christopheredwardsmusic
i had a soundclick but that site is full of clutter and useless tools. check out the music.

Coke ad

This week for Joe's class we we're to create an advertisement for any company we choose. It was altogether open-ended which made it fun to just experiment.

Presenting....

I have reformatted my site: christophwards.com.

Meggi Faye asked me to do a cd cover for her and it only took me 20 minutes but she likes what she sees:

Just painting.. ya..

gnomes (for super sculpey project)

Gonna make me a crazy gnome. Yep. Then I'll probably have to travel world taking snapshots of him and I in the strangest corners of this strange strange earth. Maybe I'll make a giant mushroom as his accessory?

Some thoughts..

Rollerblade assignment:

Colour: black, red, white + pale blue.
Style: propaganda, simplistic, outright.
Market: young adult.
Font: stencil fonts.
Paper: ecopaper, recycled.

I want an organic paper with simple stencil designs wrapped around it. The tag to the left is the kind of direction I would like to go. From my thoughts of it now, it's going to have a rather "rebellious" design and something that matches a community skatepark graffiti. My overall concept still awakening but I have a pretty good idea of what the finished product will show.

Watercolours

I have set up a portfolio online at: http://web.mac.com/christophwards/

There I will be posting some of my more important works as they come. There I have posted some of the watercolour pieces I have been working on which I will post below. I have been paying a lot more attention to advertisements lately and noticing what sells. Some are very explicit while some are completely random and have nothing to do with the product. I guess today what sells is stupidity and being able to relate to this culture's bad humour. I really like what some companies are doing with designs and concepts. Well, here are my watercolours.

Update

I've been doing a lot of watercolour lately which took me by surprise cause I origianlly hated the effects it gave. But after some late nights experimenting with it and doing some watercolour over collage it has temporarily become my obsession. Once I scan the works I will post them. I have been updating my Flickr account and trying to fill it up. I bought a pro account so I can store some of my 4000+ pictures that I currently have on my laptop. Also, I am nearly done my Photoshop logo effect assignment which is going pretty good. It's hard to find an effect that doesn't turn out cheesy without really trying a few things. I think it'll turn out great though.

New Flickr Account

I realize that this Blog is getting a little hectic and the massive amounts of photo's I am capable of throwing up on here is ridiculous so I made a Flickr account for both portfolio work and just fun photo's. I might have to get a paid account being that it is so cheap and a secondary backup source. Anyways, follow the link (although I haven't much posted yet):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reinvent/

I will have very random post of art work and pictures I think are cool enough to post.

Logo Trace Assignment

I forgot to post my Logo Trace Assignment from Joe's class so here it is. A self explanatory project where we chose a sports team logo and traced it. Here is mine...

Make Art, Not War.

Gotta love that saying. Here is my contribution the scene. Since I have yet to show any of my paintings on this blog I will begin by posting this one. Vuah-la!

Watercolour Avenue

When tackling this watercolour assignment I knew I didn't want to attempt making the corner look like the picture. Instead I wanted something interesting and make use of what watercolour painting offers and something I could use again for texture. Here is the finished product as well as the process.

Fruitopia Advertisement

In Multi Media Design class we were broken into groups of six or seven and asked to do an ad for a Coca Cola product. Our group chose Fruitopa based on the what resources we had available to us. Putting out idea's together and doing a bunch of cut and paste we came up with "The Fruitopia Revolution" for an assortment of reasons. Well, here it is!

Just some things I have been toying with..

Week 005: Watercolour

On Monday we worked on some watercolour painting. This is the first time I've toyed with watercolour but I can see myself getting deeper in to it as this course continues..

Week 004 Objective: 7 Triangles

This week the class was split into three groups: squares, circles, and triangles. I am among the triangles. Our objective was to find seven examples of your shape below knee level. After doing so we were to do a speed sketch of each. Once I obtain a scanner I will be able to show my work more easily, but for now I will at least upload the examples. I found that I had to use triangles that require an implied line but the shape is obvious to the viewer.

Above are my examples of triangles; in order from left to right - top to bottom: 1. office chair 2. rotating door 3. cart wheel 4. pylon 5. crate 6. stool 7. caution sign. Below the photo's are my very speedy sketches. Locations: The glass doors are located at the Eaton Center downtown. The crate, cart wheel and two chairs are found in my apartment. The caution sign and pylons were found on the York campus.