Inspiration: Campbell

I posted this on my other blog, but somehow felt that i needed it here, too.

I want to rev up this blog a little, not so that it gets more attention, but because I really want to use it as some on-line journal, a place where I can keep track of my own progress or lack of it... with the added benefit of being accountable by readers.

I've been struggling, in the past two or so years with getting things done... or made, rather...

The thing is, that in about two months, I, in some miraculous way, that is yet unknown to me, have to be done with my diploma work, so I thought that maybe it was a good idea to use this blog as a way of keeping track of how I'm doing. We'll just see.

Madrid

From our trip to Spain.

Barcelona: La Sagrada Famiglia

Just came back from a rather short trip to Barcelona and Madrid. It was amazing.
I went with some 50 other students from the university...
Don't know what to say... it was really, really amazing... worth every penny... even tho we took the train and had to change some twenty times alltogether... :P

An Old One

This is an old "academic-style" drawing that I made some two years ago at the university.
I'm about to attend the life-drawing class again. Life drawing is mandatory only in the first two years, but I think it could do good. I'm freaked out tho. Haven't drawn for a year and a half or so.
(charcoal on tinted paper, 50x70 cms, but this picture is cropped)

Guess What!

Aaaand, this is another poster for the Freedom of Speech, that I whipped up last. Not the best ever but I kinda like it.
Haaa, one more exam to go (aesthetics), and I'm done with this semester.

An Other Version

Last week I went to school to consult my teachers. I showed them my "freedom of speech" posters and this is the one they preferred. They might be right. Don't know.

Freedom of Speech

So, this is the other poster I submitted for the Poster4Tomorrow campaign.
As for the copy, I actually wanted to put there a few lines from Tracy Chapman's Why. But then I reworded if so as not to risk any infringement on copyrights. The copy would have been this:
"...the time is coming soon, when the blind remove their blinders and the speechless speak the truth..."
I guess this poster was to a large degree inspired by all the dotty images that I've recently saved in my Stuff I Like library. :)
Process is so funny. I actually wanted to make my posters much more "hand-made". That would still be me. I love collaged paper. I was also planning on making some embroidery that would be part of a poster. But during the process, and of course also because I tend to postpone everything up till the last minutes, my posters somehow got to be very simple. And I don't mind.
I'm starting to believe that process is more important than the outcome.

Freedom of Speech

One of the posters that I submitted for Poster4Tomorrow's campaign for Freedom of Speech.
The idea behind this was that people that are not granted the Freedom of Speech, might try to communicate in other ways, i.e. through their works. I'm not sure whether the illustration is clear or not. These are supposed to be mouth-blown glass objects, inspired by a video I saw on YouTube about a Chinese glass factory.

Almost Famous

Well, far from it, but this poster of mine got displayed at the Museum of Applied Arts. I'm really proud now. :)

Logo and sketches

This was an assignment at the University. I quite like this... :)
The purpose of the Bologna Process it to standardize higher education in Europe, thereby making it possible for students to migrate between European Universities and Colleges.
The main idea here was to convey the freedom that is gained by students thanks to the Bologna Process.

A Study on Lines in Space

Made for Anatomy Class (Human Anatomy and Studies in Space or something like that) about a year and a half ago.

Some More Business Cards

This identity was made for the Hungarian Chapter of Union International de la Marionette; a school assingment as usual.
I took the hard way with this, as instead of simply using a Wacom, I painted the logotype with watercolor then scanned it and then vectorized it in Adobe Illustrator.

A Poster

A poster that I made for an old movie, Andrzej Wajda's Landscape After the Battle, and some sketches for the same.
This again was a school assignment.

Identity

So, these are some items from my own identity. Well actually these are all the items from my identity, but the cards are all one of a kind, and I made quite a few of them.
Once again, this was a school assignment from last year.
I'll leave you with a quote from Ellen Lupton's Thinking with Type.

"A graphic designer can set out to change the world one business card at a time - as l ong as it is the business card of a really interesting person."

LOL.

Bottle Design

Another school assignment from last semester, but this time it was for real, only, it was not my work that got chosen for the real deal. But never mind.
We had to design bottle and labels for three kinds of spirits. This was a new territory, going 3D, but I enjoyed it. I'd love to learn studiomax but this time I still depended on my brother with it.

Some Croquis from our 2007 School Camp

These gesture drawings were made at our school's summer camp site back in 2007. The site is located in Tihany (Hungary) at a lake up on a hill. The little donkey was not part of the wildlife but the ducks were.
It's too bad we only went to this camp just once, at the beginning of our second year at university.

Poster

A poster for the 30th anniversary of the National Industrial Design Awards in Hungary. This was a school assignment. This last semester, among other things, we had to make a few potsers, mostly for films.

Croquis, Again and Again

Some older ones from a year or so ago.
The upper one is made with charcoal, and the lower one is made with a graphite stick.

Source of Knowledge: Graphic Design, A Concise History by Richard Hollis (Thames & Hudson)

As its title reveals, this book is a concise history of graphic design. In my opinion this is a very informative and very inspirational book. Unlike bad history books, this one is loaded with photos to accompany the texts, alas, with rather small B/W photos.
Actually we also had this book as a textbook at our graphic design history class at the university.
Some typical spreads include:I bought this from amazon.com.

Aquatint: The Three Graces

So, this is an aquatint print that I made last semester.