Archive for Graphic Design

John Brighenti | February 2, 2012
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Vector vs. Paint — A Collaboration.

O'KeefeI came up with an intriguing proposition with Josette and we both decided to collaborate with our artwork. I would take some of her existing paintings and make them all vectorific them and see what happens.

The result is my first piece in this series. A digital reproduction of one of her best paintings, in this case a flower done in the style of Georgia O’keeffe that she is quite fond of. She apparently approves because I have a stack of he work to convert, now.

This piece called for extensive use of the gradient mesh tool and resulted in some pretty nice work. I added a few of my own touches and flourishes, but I think the spirit of the original piece remains. This will be one of the first pieces I place up for sale on Etsy once I set that up next week.

Details on that will be forthcoming.

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John Brighenti | January 27, 2012
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Everything He Touches Turns to Vector.

Goldfinger PosterI have always wanted to try my hand at illustrating posters, so I decided to take my love of James Bond and craft a poster to pay homage to, probably, my favorite Bond film.

Unfortunately an hour in, Illustrator crashed on me and best of all, I didn’t save anything! Go me!

So, after a lot of swearing, throwing things, and cursing parts of my computer I didn’t even know existed, I gave it another shot. Five hours later and we have the finished product. I’m really happy with it and I’m considering making a run of posters for every Bond film.

Well. Except the Daniel Craig ones. I don’t like them. Should be fun!

Now the question to consider, should I sell a limited amount of these? What’s the legality of doing so? Is it worth it? Who knows! All I DO know is I’m printing one for my office wall or to possibly brighten up the cube farm.

UPDATE: 1.28.12
Created another poster. This time from the classic From Russia With Love.

bondposter02

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John Brighenti | January 27, 2012
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Designing for Tablets: Feeling My Way Around in the Dark

Cracked TabletWhy designing for a tablet may just kill me…

So for a project at work, we’ve been tasked to come up with designs for tablets, now.

I thought just worrying about browsers was a tremendous pain. Now there are varying resolutions that need to be taken into account. Is it 1024 x 768? 1280 x 800? I’ve seen some sites say to keep it at 1000 or less for landscape. It’s enough to pull one’s hair out.

Oh and androids have pixel densities too, so apparently if I make anything in bitmap form, I need multiple copies in different sizes.

Aye yai yai.

I think I wish I stood in bed.

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John Brighenti | January 18, 2012
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Feeling Grim

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Grim

After a lot of tinkering I wanted to share an image that I will probably sell as a print, due to popular demand :)

Designed in Illustrator, this piece started out as a quick ‘doodle’ that I wanted to try something new with (the curly lines). After showing my wife and some friends, amazingly to my surprise I got some great feedback on it but felt it needed tweaking before I released it.

So, here it is after said tweaking. I hope you like it!

Pretty soon I plan on putting this print, among other prints of my illustrations and photography, for sale on Etsy. I’ll keep everyone informed of the progress of that.

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John Brighenti | January 12, 2012
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Going into Battle…

After I got home from work, last night I fell asleep and woke up around 1…ish… or so. Faced with the decision, should I go to bed and try to go back to sleep or just stay up, I sat down with a book and chose the latter.

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John Brighenti | January 9, 2012
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Interactive Flash

You don’t have to be a dedicated programmer to whip up something neat in flash. All you need to do is have a basic understanding of actionscript and some creativity and you can do a lot of neat stuff.

Below is an interactive I create for a client (I removed branding and any sensitive text) that uses simple actionscript. Is it the correct way to use it? Absolutely not. It’s graphic designer code, but it’s a stepping stone toward learning more intricate ways of doing things with flash.

Feel free to play around with it.

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