New York Times Summer Movies 2012 | Cover Contest

So after working on my design for the New York Times Summer Movies Cover,

I got the chance to get my work selected among 10 pieces, that will be judged and only one will be the actual summer cover.

If you guys like my work and would like to help me, please feel free and vote Number 3, the image in blue with the female shape and type treatment!

Thanks a lot!

:)

HERE

  is the magic link ...

Punker Attitude

So...

You have 3 words:

1. Monkey

2. Hair 

3. Comedic

 And you need to do something creative with it...

This is what I did

*No monkeys were getting drunk during this process...

Fish On A Leash

And then... she said to him:

You are like a fish on a leash...

*****

2012!

EVERYONE

HAVE

A

GREAT

AND

CREATIVE

YEAR

*

* JINGLE ALL THE WAY *

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells,

Jingle all the way...

Let's all be children again!

So start with reading & enjoying Poezoo Children Book

written by Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu with design and illustrations by me.

For the moment the book is available in digital format at Liternet Publishing House in Romania.

http://www.liternet.ro/

Hopefully, it will be available in printed version soon.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!



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Furoshiki

Hand drawn type, from decorative to experimental lettering, it's a great challenge for me and I am exploring new styles to develop my set of skills in this field.

Letter forms and type compositions are a reaction of self expression, they are about being expressive, they are about breaking rules, and impress a unique, artistic stamp in my work.

For the Furoshiki illustration design assignment, we were asked to research and create a decorative cloth that could be used for everything that we wanted to. The main process was to develop  the concept without using the internet, and start getting inspired by things around.

So I decided to make a silk textile wrapping cloth for wine packaging. The southern character and personality of the product is reflected in the influence of the space from where it belongs.

Since Savannah is so rich in architectural details, and typography, I started to make pictures of houses, numbers, letters, and any other elements that could build the idea.

And here is the final result.

You can also find the project on my website.

Glam Dog & Stencil Print

I had never draw so many dogs in my entire life, but in the end I had lots of fun with it.

“Pooches and Pets” was an assignment where you need to see strange and funny connections between the owners and their dogs, so one could guess that this visual documentation could turn into great discoveries.

Last month, there was an event in Savannah where owners dressed their pets and it was amazing to see flower dogs, bananas, pirates, and even a cat dressed dog???

I made various sketches from watercolor, to ink, pencil and collage.

One day I was walking around the town and I saw a woman at a coffee shop with her dog and each of them were drinking from their own mug. The owner had her animal friend, dressed up and arranged.
I realized how similar they were and how the lady transferred onto the dog her personality.

I present to you the final piece... Glam Dog

This project has opened for me, new ways of working with typography, collage and textures.

So I took it further on for the stencil print technique.

It is quite similar to the monotype project, but you need to cut the image in different parts and ink them separately and then add them layer by layer on the paper…no, not in Photoshop ;-).

 And after that, the piece is put inside the printmaking press. Here are the results and the mixed media image.