Project #3: Book Jackets
Well, I folded them up and they sorta fit. Now I’ll adjust the measurements and do a few tweaks before class tomorrow!
Here are the six isotypes I made for Grizzly Tattoo. I wonder if they will keep a few of them posted in there. I have a few extra, and I’m going to stick them in the bathroom at the Doug Fir tonight, tee hee.
I found a cool archival site called The Pelican Project. I like these covers from the 60’s; they all communicate complex ideas with few elements which is what I hope I can do for this next project. Here it is: http://www.thingsmagazine.net/projects/pelican.htm
Trolling the net for ideas about how to represent a tattoo shop in pictogram form, these pop up. Public baths in Japan still post these signs even though tattoos have penetrated beyond the fringes of their culture. Still, I’m guessing that the old-timers still associate tattoos with yakuza/gangster activity even on gaijin/honkys like me.
Project One: Concert Poster
Which one do you like best?
My friend Tyler opened this brand new tattoo shop in June. He is game for some isotype installation. There are plenty of spoken and unspoken rules to explore here, breaking them can be dangerous and permanent!
(Source: grizzlytattoo.com)
Italian designer/architect Fabio Novembre uses isotypes in this rug he designed for Cappelini and on the wall of this showroom for a tile company. Here is his explanation of the rug:
“Pure Italy”
Design a product and every small detail. Is there something more magic than a particular of a project able to turn from part to whole?
Attention to detail must be one of the magic qualities that has gotten so many of Mr. Novembre’s interiors onto book covers, which is how I came across him (check out this crazy high concept bar he designed: http://www.novembre.it/interiors/bar-lodi/). According to his blog, he sees himself as more of a storyteller/interpreter than architect. Far out!
It must be spendy to maintain signage like this. However, knocking out the ‘tel’ and the ‘ho’ makes this an interesting little intersection. I would love to have a coffee on that balcony there. It doesn’t hurt that this hotel is in Lisbon…
ReTumble: This is an example of how important planning/concepting is for effective images. Johnne Eschleman (this guy here in the yellow tee) painted many of the rooms in the Ace Hotel here in PDX and in NYC. He makes a plan/image, has to go through some approval process, and then uses a projector guide to install it in each room. Rad.
Johnne paints in 3D in room 1218 at Ace New York. Music by one of our own, Ryan Bukstein, and Pete Bowhan. They are Contacts.
I’ve chosen WILD FLAG for the poster assignment. This is a phone pic I took of them from the OPB music session they did last Friday. I’m pretty familiar with the band, and all the other bands they’ve been in, so the challenge will be to come up with a visual as strong as they are.
