I'll be honest - I get bored sometimes at work. Don't get me wrong... I'm
BUSY. And pretty much all the time. But with a lot of unstimulated fodder like ad mat localization, website data entry, photo resizing... It's overwhelmingly sad how much of this designer's job doesn't really involve design at all. So, recently, I decided to take the matter into my own hands and basically design the crap out of a poster project that really no one was even paying attention to. I did it for me. To remember that I'm capable of more than the daily grind of task-mastering that gets handed to me every day. To remember that I was once good at making stuff. To de-numbify my brain.
What proved to be the jumping point for this project was just a matter of being completely taken by the work of studio
People Too.
Their paper cuts are GORGEOUS. And while it wasn't exactly in the cards
to hire a studio out of Russia to illustrate a no-budget project that
no one actually cared about (for a
free event, no less), I
decided the effort to learn how they were making these things would be
well-worth it in the end. And now that I've done it, I want to do it
again. I want them to hire me. I want to move to Russia. (Ok, maybe not
that last part.)
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| Your paperclip legs and hairless paper cranium are sexy to me, big-lipped, torso lady. |
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| The creepy, waltzing, headless hula zombie stage... |
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| A little glue dandruff... |
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| My giant fingertip will crush your tiny stamen, itty bitty hibiscus! |
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| Homemade lightbox - pretty proud of that, but this was also about the time I began cursing my hipster professor for how little photography knowledge I came out of college with. (Ask me any question about ZeFrank, though - I can tell you LOTS about that guy.) |
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Lots of natural light on the balcony of Chrysler Hall! Ha ha... Don't mind me...
I CANNOT BE CONTAINED TO MY OFFICE!!! |
Final result? Super happy fun times! Would I change some stuff if I were to do it again? Yes. Definitely. But, the process was ridiculously fun, and the end result pretty freaking adorable if I do say so.
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| For my next poster... I'm thinking clay. OR PUPPETS! |
