A friend asked me to design some advertisements for a dance on May 5. The theme was Cinco de Mayo. But someone also observed that May 5 was the day after Star Wars Day (May the 4th). The collateral include 8.5"x11" flyers, a Facebook Event cover title, and an image sized for the Eventbrite page. Then someone else observed that the Kentucky Derby was also happening on May 5 and I did the Adobe Illustrator version of Hulking out.
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Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling!
Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling. Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight, Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight, There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter, Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water. Old Tom Bombadil water-lilies bringing Comes hopping home again. Can you hear him singing? Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! and merry-o! Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o! Poor old Willow-man, you tuck your roots away! Tom's in a hurry now. Evening will follow day. Tom's going home again water-lilies bringing. Hey! Come derry dol! Can you hear me singing? My single most, absolute favorite thing about the Living History event at Eisenhower Farm - dawn photography.
At my work's old site, there was a small adjacent building called the Pigeon Club. It was, essentially, a large shed used for storage, but for some reason it had a liquor license attached to it. When we moved to the new site, I was sad to leave the Pigeon Club behind (although cleaning it out was a nightmare). So I had to make a thing for the new site to pay homage to what was and what it could have been. Because honestly, nobody has any idea what it was used for or why it had that name.
Now that Inktober is over, here are some of my favorites. Mammoth bread is a Korean baked good and when I interned at the museum, the web guy would bring some in nearly every Monday. Gracie is my employer's youngest daughter.
I just came across some photos from a couple of projects commissioned by family members. One is a coupon for my dad to get his car washed and detailed. The second is a birthday card for my sister, which riffs on some family inside jokes-Maurice Sendak's book "Chicken Soup With Rice" and the "Teddy Bear Picnic" song.
Something I drew years ago and am now digitizing in Illustrator. Technically they both belong to Disney so there's not much of a crossover, right? I call this pairing "GamBelle" because I think I'm really clever sometimes.
These are the wayfinding assets I was talking about. I think the thing I find confusing is that some of the icons represent the building exterior, eg the African Art Museum and the Hirshhorn, while others represent items from the collection, like the Natural History Museum. Plus, there's a mix of really nice shapes, eg the Freer Gallery of Art, and shapes that have far too many fussy details, like the Air and Space Museum or the Star Spangled Banner icon. Random fact: the Portrait Gallery is not part of the Smithsonian network. Who knew??
I recently had to make pictographs of the landmarks around Washington, DC, and I made two sets of each, depending on use. Personally, I think these are more visually unified than the maps located on the National Mall, but I might be biased. Sadly I don't have a picture of the Mall maps for comparison. Done in Illustrator.
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