Work Work.

So. I have the privilege and opportunity to be working as a design and production intern here at Nu Skin in Provo, in this lovely building.

Other than the usual, menial production jobs that us intern gets, sometimes we get the opportunity to do something really cool and interesting.

Currently, the other intern and I are working on creating fairly holistic campaign centered around the introduction of an improved employee and managerial interface/interaction system. We will be creating a separate, sub-brand identity (a unique one that still functions beneath the Nu Skin aesthetic), and be creating a series of miniature advertising posters, a larger posters, and possibly stationary and web elements as well. 

Although these are just the first takes at it, this the general direction that we were taking it in.

We were inspired by the concept of a simplification and interface-redesign of an older, confusing, less efficient system; we wanted to create something that was pictorial, memorable, and to some degree narrational. The idea is that Nu Skin is taking these chaotic, unstable shapes and reducing and reinventing them to become stable, efficient geometric forms. The forms on black, as well as the selection of CMYK pantones is meant to invoke a sort of technological formalism. '

Chances are that we'll have to change a bunch of stuff to it. In fact the final version may end up looking nothing like this. It's just that the other intern and I are just too in love with the idea of it, which means that it's destined to be slaughtered by higher authorities. It always happens. C'est la vie.

Recent Illustrations

Inspired by my older sister's role as Little Red Riding Hood in the Utah Valley Princess Festival, I decided to start playing around with images of wolves (which, unfortunately are a sickeningly stereotypical hipster trope. Blech). However, I liked the idea of the simple face and texture combo, creating (hopefully) a properly nightmarish massiveness. 


I was also drawn to this wonderfully positive quote by Anton Chekhov: 

"When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself."

There you have it. 

(ballpoint on paper. Coloring in PhotoShop)


Also, I'm taking a class on Anton Chekhov, and we have to do a creative application for our final. Obviously, I've started working on my final already (instead of the 10 paged paper that's due this Thursday). For now, I'm drawn to doing promotional posters for a number of plays. Here's my first stab at laying out The Seagull:

That tiny little box on the upper left with the two seagull's heads on each other is my present selection for the composition (also, you should know that I'm omitting my pages of shitty drafts. You just get to see the final stab, along with the pretty bird and soviet star--which will not be on the poster).

Oh look it's been forever since I've posted. Also, a portrait.

Well, I'm honestly ashamed of how much art I haven't been making lately.

On a happier note, I did this from-life, oil portrait a number of weeks ago and am finally putting it up here.

Completely within a relatively short period of time, alla prima style, limited palette, the works. Painted over a sanded down previous portrait, with a quick acrylic gesso (which is probably gonna suck as far as archival purposes go), and then a quick graphite cartoon and thinned-down oils for all of the mass building. It's probably the first time that I've been able to reach this level of inherent dynamicism within a painted piece (in regards to brushwork and visual energy), and I'm pretty pleased with it. I'm actually not quite sure where it is now...maybe my locker? Oh well. I try not to fall in love with my pieces too much because the less complacent I am about it, the more likely I am to keep on working and pushing myself to do better.

Mais voilà, c'est moi.