I remember as a kid always seeing drawings of this nature and thinking they were something both strange and spectacular. Haze lets loos some stories of Keith Haring in memory of what would be his 50th birthday.
The last two weeks of my life have been crazy to say the least. 2.5 months into my stay at TAXI and I found myself up to my armpits in rendering huge files for our 15th birthday. Compiling old spots and print ads plus pop culture references from years dating back to 1992, really made me realize how far I’ve come and how further ahead we are on this planet. Now that the party is over and the files have been backed up. I’m onto bigger things, one of which is diving head deep back into the world of flash to better skill myself in the ways of fine programming, something to which I’ve left by the wayside in favor of recycling the same old cruddy code I’ve developed over the past 2 years of not deving flash like I used too. Oh how it feels to learn again.
At the same time I’ve been busy at home, while the studio’s dance season came to a close I found myself working nonstop to get everything done for everybody. Plus with Emily and Jen at home I felt like my time with them was slim, but I tried my best to make due.
Two projects in addition to this already heavy workload were the updated Franco Shade and Jug websites.
Prolly the simplest site I’ve done in a while a small site for Jug Shoes and Liners. Simple and to the point. There is going to be a blog added and we are just sorting out the database things with that.
Obviously taking far longer than I wanted it too is the new FRSH site. Now fully flash on the front end I have a few menu tweeks under the hood that I wanted to take care of most of which you’ll never see, but its a personal thing. New stuff to be added shortly.
at night after I put the fam to bed I sit up on my lappy and hammer out sites for friends. I’ve been doing it for a while. Helps to fill the creative void sometimes and I get free shit in returm. (thanks JOE!)
My black brother matt is a motion graphics designer, skater and all round super chill dude. I’ve been meening to make him a site for close to 2 years, we are notoriously bad at getting our shit together and thus designs sat un-used for a while. Matt came up with silkyblackgold.com a great URL. I worked up this site as a partial challenge to myself and a challenge to him to fill it with his dope work.
I think the site turned out great for the time it was given, I even learned a thing or two along the way. Under the hood there is an XML backend which matt can update, some jpegs here and there and some FLV’s round out teh assets this thing loads on the fly…. dope stuff.
enjoy and look out for an updated franco shade site, which I started tonight.
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Day to day I work on some similar brands, matter of fact they are basically 100% automotive and even then I’m down to a few brands I deal with exclusively if you will.
Being a person of constant change my mind gets going on what it would be like to work on some “dream clients” every designer has them, their top tier clients they would perhaps lay a portion of their body and soul down for some quality design time. Some of mine are as follows.
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Just wrapped up the spring summer Franco site, pretty happy with this, about 2 weeks of light nightly production. Mostlikely one of my better clients, they both pay me and are rarely difficult with me. It’s kinda like carte blanche with them. Great shirt artwork from once again, photos by . The rest by me.
Last night I really got started on the new franco site. Pulled down the current site and put up a placeholder for new things to come. Its kind of an emotional experience taking down a site you worked hard at. But once the new site gets up I’ll feel better about the whole thing. However this time unlike other projects I’ve done I’ll have the whole thing backed up on my own portfolio site which has taken a backseat to my current workflow at home.
So hopefully if everything goes well then there should be a new Franco catalog site up mid april with some more treats this time included to keep the site bangin.