design, digital art

I was asked by a rug manufacturer in Italy years ago if I would be interested in letting them make a hand-tufted wool rug with one of my designs. – I of course said “yes” and so here are a few photos from the project. Published in White magazine. ~Italy.

Boo!

design, drawings, handpainting, illustration, mural, visual merchandising

Painted these a long time ago. Acrylic on foam core. – then contour cut. . . . they were hung in “Where the Wild Things Are” at the Sony Metreon event area during a halloween haunted house for kids.

lunar eclipse drawing

design, illustration, illustrator, photoshop

Observing a lunar eclipse, I was thinking about a design to show the phases but it turned into a little more than that. A poster and one of my favorite images.

drawings

acrylic painting, design, drawings, handpainting, mural

When I had a painting and design business years ago I would draw designs out on velum or thin tracing paper and then transfer the image on to a canvas or wall – whatever surface it was painted on. I sometimes used transfer paper or rubbed graphite on the back of the drawing and then re-traced the image.

This is what other panels of the paintings looked liked in progress. The color images were scanned from older color prints. Pre-digital cameras.

Rick Pirman – graphic works with photos and vectors

design, digital art, graphic design, photoshop, Vector

I designed the white square window decals that ran along the entire length of Metreon when it was owned by Sony, on it’s 4th street side.
It covered up the original digital graphics that was once the Airtight Garage branding.

Graphic Design projects with Psy/Ops fonts

design, digital art, graphic design, illustration, illustrator, photoshop, poster, self promotion

Rod Cavazos, the Principal at PSY/OPS & Adjunct Professor at CCA in San Francisco has some of the most fun fonts on the web. . . . Rod says “Hi, we’re PSY/OPS Type Foundry, a creative studio dedicated to typeface design and alphabetic innovation. We build typefaces all day long — and occasionally all night long. Our primary commissions are for tech giants and manufacturers, game developers and print publishers, as well as other foundries and design firms. We also love teaming up on more personal / experimental / academic projects. The quirkier and more challenging the better. Between client engagements, we work on fonts for our own eclectic library.”

A few years ago, well maybe more than a few years ago, Rod Gave me some fonts to have fun with and I spent more than a few weeks adding them to some digital artworks I was making at the same time.