Some Cool Design Related Sites

MONEY&DESIGN

SHAPEWAYS

Awesome site where you can design personlized products that the companty can fabricate for you or people who want to buy your designs.
  

KICKSTARTER

Started as a way for artist to get funding. Kickstarter allow people with an idea be it product, design, performance or art project. It's a cool model check it out.

Etsy
 This is a great site along the same lines as ebay but specifically for craft products. Lots of people making cool stuff and getting paid for it.

Spicy Mustard

 

I decided upon spicy mustard as my project. I created the above words using photo shop and translated them to my paper using graphite rubbing.

I mixed my colors going for hues just slightly away from base colors. I took the lemon yellow and added just a little dot of brilliant red. This created a pretty vivid orange. I then used the orange to mix back into the base colors. Leaving a dot of each hue I stopped when the new mixed colors where distinct from the originals. I'm not sure if the red was a big enough change from the original though.

 My plan was to make the spicy have a flame like appearance which was hard using one color. Mustard was more successful I actually wrote out the word using ketchup on some wax paper and tried to make the paint glop on like the ketchup did.

You said no cofee cups.

This is a glass coffee/slash tea cup with a glass basin and plastic holder. I don't know how old they are but we've had some at my camp for years. I love the design and when saw some at good will I grabbed a couple to have.

I used a photoshop for realism. I played around with multiple photos of the subject in the same position to add detail to the picture. Some of the shots had milk in the glass others where empty and I tried to merge those to increase detail.

I used my window as light table to tracing to compensate for my lack of drawing skills.

This is my texture drawing. It needs to be rotated. I liked creating texture with different media.

I used graph paper for my rectilinear. I was going to trace for transfer to drawing paper but found I like the graph background. I found I really liked the hexagonal pattern that emerged at the top.

The shape was already fairly biomorphic so I tried to just accentuate those feature that where.In this one the base seemed more important then the glass like it was trying to show me something.

The for the negative exploration I created the background and drew the glass with the eraser.

I instead of abstracting just biomorphic or retilinier I took features that struck me about both and also went back to look at the original object. The cup it's self actually seems to have alot of height in real life. A characteristic lost in all my other pieces even the photo so I tried to accentuate slimness in this piece.