miscellany
This is a loose collection of digital graphics editing projects, some casual jokes and some more serious but all intended to hone and expand my skill set, and so they're presented here as examples of that.
A fake promotional piece for a past Superbowl with the New England Patriots (right) and the Tomb Raider movie art from which it was composed (left). I learned a little more about matching tones here, and blended Tom Brady's eyes with Alicia Vikander's for a subtle extra level of likeness. It was also good practice for building and filling in sections displaced by editing.
Then Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco sported a somewhat controversial handlebar mustache during the 2011 football season, so I swapped him out for Lemmy from the early metal band Motorhead in this "Successory" motivational poster. The low resolution of the original image offered limited potential for editing practice, so this was mostly an exercise in lighting and color temperature.
A spoof made during Donald Trump's first presidential campaign, based on the cover art for Life After Death by Notorious B.I.G. Allegedly Trump's use of the term "big league" was misheard as "bigly" and another joke was born. I created the new letters, swapped in his face, and to hit on a few of his talking points added the ISIS flag inside the hearse and expanded on the title. I should specify for my own social acceptability that I had no critical intentions here outside of Photoshop practice. If anything the joke is fittingly inarticulate.
Trailers for "The Martian" starring Matt Damon aired around the time Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch made the news for his reticence with journalists on Super Bowl media day in early 2015, which he was only required to attend - he brushed off every question with something like, "I'm just here so I won't get fined." So I imagined him in Damon's fictional role, begrudgingly going wherever he's sent just to avoid getting fined. Even as far as Mars.
Digital fliers for a July 4th party I used to host on my apartment roof deck for a few close friends. These were distributed on social media to promote the gathering, which by year two I had branded Lofty & Lush.
Above: The "reverse" of the flier, the joke being that it's digital and was never distributed in print.
(Note: The barcode graphic was sourced from the internet, along with the fireworks and sky lanterns.)
Below: A nod to the Hannibal TV series, which was still running at the time.
My entry for the group print exhibition Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, commemorating the 2007 bombing of the book market in Baghdad, Iraq. I took scenes of the marketplace and framed them with a litany of artifacts, Mesopotamian ornament, and carpet patterns to evoke the design of money, tying heritage and humanity together in the aspiration toward a more promising future.
Digital print, 11" x 15". Detail below.
