Tuesday, 30 June 2009

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.

Saturday, 13 June 2009

Inspiration: Drawings and Sketches by Degas

Full of restatements... and I think that's what makes them so beautiful.
Young Degas once met Old Dominique Ingres. Old Ingres told him he should draw and draw and draw. So, he would draw and draw and draw. To my greatest joy.

Friday, 12 June 2009

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.

Friday, 5 June 2009

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.

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Inspiration: Degas


Just look at the rhythm. Needless to say, I love Edgar Degas.
It can be clearly seen, that the first painting is an earlier one.
In my opinion, this is a tendence that we see with great painters: as they grow older and more experienced, they don't bother to say more with more, instead, they manage to say more with less. And I think that is why the lower two are so fabulous. I just can't get enough of them.
I'm sure that sooner or later I'll take up painting.

Wednesday, 3 June 2009

Inspiration: Sutnar

I don't know much about Vladimir Sutnar, pioneer of what we now call information design, but I certainly like these pieces from his oeuvre. Diagonals make these works move. Also, I like the idea of combining photography with simple shapes. And I like that he uses color sparingly (regardless of whether this is due to contemporary printing technology or not).

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.

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

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.

Thursday, 23 April 2009

Some old sketches for bridal gowns

These are some designs for my mother's bridal company (www.izabell.hu), but these are ones that never got executed.
They look very funny scanned and superimposed.

Thursday, 12 February 2009

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.

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Friday, 9 January 2009

Chandelier

In November, we had the chance of doing a photo shooting at a very nice place featuring such beauties as these chandeliers.
I took along my brother's camera (an old Sony) and made a few shots myself.
I really suck at photography, but after a bit of Photoshop work on them, these look rather nice to me.

Thursday, 1 January 2009

Teddy

A teddy that I made back in 2006, pastel on paper.
Happy New Year, everyone!

Saturday, 27 December 2008

Drapery study

Drapery study that I made last year at school.
Pastel on pale blue-gray tinted paper. 50 by 70 cms.
Click to enlarge.