Monday, May 4, 2009

Sabrina at the Beach!

My friend bought this for me when she was in Florida. While they are cheesy, I rarely find my name on anything, so I loved it!

I like the seagull with sunnies.

Card 18 | Codie Smith

I met Codie at Design Ranch and we've been playing all over facebook ever since. He told me he "cheated" by throwing my last name in, but I reminded him that there are no rules!

He like others, seemed to be glad to be drawing again. I don't even know how he got that brilliant color. It makes the cool hand drawn lettering just pop off the page. Thanks Codie!

Card 17 | Sean Carnegie

Look at this!

Sean Carnegie works as a principal in Austin, TX at LewisCarnegie. I had the opportunity to meet him when I involved myself with AIGA Austin as a student. Now I have been able to hang out with him and lots of AIGA Austin folk at the recent Design Ranch.

He told me that the postal service was giving him a hard time sending the postcard, but it got to me. I like to call the stamps flag-flag-kiwi, and it cracks me up. Notice that there is a card actually stapled to the postcard. I am glad that it didn't get lost. It's hard to portray with the scan, but when you tilt the card, you can see some additional markings in the light. I think the plasticity of that paint created an unexpected semi-gloss finish. Yeah!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Card 16 | Kristofer Delaney

Card 16 is from good old NYC!

Kristofer Delaney works at Ogilvy & Mather, a prestigious company that prides itself on building brands.

I am not sure why salt is considered good luck, but I appreciate it nonetheless and the two-headed dog is pretty awesome. I wonder if that picture is Kristofer. I also liked the huge envelope it came in. I couldn't just ignore that. Something about a sharpie that is just neat.


Card 15 | Jeff Caldwell

I sent about half my cards to California and always receive awesome work.

I found Jeff Caldwell from a list of people involved with John Bielenberg's Project M, and noticed that he is the main guy in a company called The Vega Project. Well, now I know that this is a project based off "Sabrina" I couldn't help but take note of a company with my last name in the title.

Now what is funny, is that if you compare this to John Bielenberg's card on this site, it looks like these guys both like a fine tip ink pen for their doodles. Ha.

Card 14 | Justin Renteria

This card hails from Aurora, CO from Justin Renteria. His illustration can be found at his website, and in your upcoming July copy of Communication Arts Illustration Annual 50. What an honor! CA was always the designer's bible turned shelf status when I was in school. Congrats to Justin!

He also has a blog here. Go check it out and get inspired!

I love this piece. There is a great texture to the piece and feels like ink from a screen print. It also says, "...yes, coffee!" hahaha

Card 13 | Erin Montoya

The other half of E&P Designs is Erin Montoya, (the strawberry).

The colors on this are fabulous. Reminds me of those old marquees that has the sequined arrows. mmm?

Make sure you look at Paco Montoya (Card 12) to see how they must be able to cover a lot of bases within their company. Both fun, yet different styles. Lovely.