RRRandom series

Hello loyal followers and random robots this is another addition to RRRandom series. This is a side project of my photography class homework. the goal was to take a black and white photo and add color and other elements to it. This is the more abstract version later on i will post the final version. i haven't posted in a while so its good to be back.

CM Bananhammer cover art

So i made an album cover for CM Bananhammer (i don't know if that's a real artist or not these days i can't identify sarcasm) anyways it was for a contest or something. I was thinking of bananas and disapproval when making this album cover. I believe we are all winners. here is the track list:
1. You poked me back
2. Accross the intertubes
3. There's nothing else in life but lulz
4. b&
5. jiggly & wiggly (You make my flag go dumb)
6. Love (I don't know that Pokémon)
7. The ballad of OP
8. pls pls me
9. Plus me tender
10. b& (part 2)

School ends and summer begins (kind of)

I know its been a long time since i last updated this blog but who is keeping track besides me? anyways, the 2012 spring ended and i have work to show you. Below is my final for communication design class. It involves Photoshop and 3 time periods: The 30s, 70s and current 2012. Other than making a pretty poster the objective of this project was to show Form, Meaning, and Function successfully and had to relate well to the content. This summer i will try and be more active on this blog. I will start working on more personal works because my work has gotten too commercial lately.  

banners banners and banners

So portfolio reviews is coming soon and every semester we have to present our work using "digication" portfolios. i don't know if "digication is a real word but long story short digication portfolio is not a good place to showcase images. every time i upload images to that site it ends up being color corrected or pixalated. but this is not a place to rant about portfolio websites instead were going to talk about banners for digication portfolio. one good thing about digication portfolios website is that it lets you have a 779 × 200 pixels banner on the top of your page. every semester i change the banner of my portfolio because i get tired of looking at the same thing after a while. one thing that never changes is my mendez logo. this semester i could not make up my mind so i did more than five versions of the portfolio banners. its usually fun when i make these banners for my page but this semester making these banners was a little frustrating since i was never satisfied with the final result. after working hard on these i was able to find a banner that i was happy with.

the next note: what does it mean??

lately i've been working on a logo for "The next note conference" [its a conference for aspiring musicians] and i'm having  what they call designers block. i feel like my first draft is really plain and boring. i'm worried that i'm gonna be doing something generic like a musical note or something similar. here is my current progress: 

ps: sorry for not posting new stuff these past few days!
i was super busy this past week.

Animal Farm

Book cover for George Orwell's "Animal Farm". This is my take on the minimalist style, i got inspired after seeing a bunch of minimalist movie posters. i try to mimic the way the took key elements from the movie and try to illustrate that in the simplest way possible as well as the use of texture in the poster.

Read This

This is my first ever book design i did for type class. The task was to create the words "read this" using anything besides writing it on a computer. I wrote the words using geometrical paper shapes and added the rest using Photoshop. I had a lot of fun with this project.

We also had to type set the content of the book following some simple typography rules. The content was written by our type professor. Even thou i did not type set the rag, it still came out elegant. Now, that I'm really paying attention to the back of the book, i find out that i made a typo at the the end of that paragraph. (note to self: always check your work BEFORE printing)

Fancy Panda!

This is my take on post-stamp design. the professor told us to make a drawing that shows "value". since i was distracted when he gave us the assignment (busy worrying about my English test ), i made a flat illustration of a panda. one of my classmates saw what i was doing and then he told me that it had to be an illustration that showed shading or "value" in a sense.  so i did i a hand drawing and scan it using illustrator. i did not wanted to waste my firs drawing so i decided to make that into an logo. behold: fancy panda!

Magazine Layout

This is my first magazine layout. i made it based on an article i found on the huffingtong post. i started by creating the illustration for the article and then i type set the rest with help of my type professor (I'm still learning ) sorry guys for being so robotic lately, I'm gonna try to write with my business caps off from now on.

Command z poster

This is the final version of the poster i made for the digital design and animation club. One of the main challenges i faced during the making of this poster was the short deadline. I was only given 2 days to come up with a concept and complete the poster. The Command z logo was already made by another student so that made making the poster easier for me.