Art, design, and all things related. Whether the medium is digital or physical it all ends up in here. Random musings on things I like, what inspires me, and design topics like typography and web.
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Sunday, 03 July 2011 12:24 |
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Just a quick note to say we've updated Tesh's portfolio with shots of her latest works from her show, Kaleidoscope! If you haven't had a chance to see it, the show will be going up at Coffee & Crema on Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville tonight. It'll be up until the end of July.
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 15:20 |
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After much effort this last semester, I've completed the refresh of the DE website... at least sort of. Over the last year it has become clear that Tesh and I would need to rebrand outselves away from the old Digital Equinox name for our work. To that end I've been working in various elements of that identity refresh culminating in the launch of the new website today. From here out, Digital Equinox will become the blog segment of Two Lands Creative, the new brand for Tesh and I. For those wondering about the logo and name, it is derived frm the hieroglyphic symbols for the word "tahwey" which means two lands. While this was normally found in the titles of the king in the form "nb t3wy" or lord of the two lands, we have found this to be a fitting name as our work is divided into the two categories of fine art and graphic design. Following the analogy, despite being separate, parts both fine art and design are united under the single umbrella of art. We hope you enjoy the new site look and stay tuned for a full refresh of the blog look eventually! |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Monday, 23 November 2009 15:29 |
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This project has ended up having a rather small number of journal entries mainly because it was fairly rushed in execution and much of the design was put together based on what materials I'd managed to borrow as late as last friday. With much help from IT and the Press for borrowing laptops, setting them up, and the kiosks I needed for the project, it's all done now. In retrospect I think that it would probably be nice to put some extra information on keyboard placards to further explain where the text typed appears. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 16:07 |
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With most of the assembly complete for the project, I have only to finish the backdrop on foamboard by putting the vinyl letters. Unfortunately I've yet to hear back about where I'll be allowed to put this up. Moving back to final details, I've still got to spray paint the hanging bits white since I think it's needed to tie things together and since doll technology has imporved quite a bit since I last saw it and it might be a bit too distrubing and pull away from the clinical feel I want. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 11:38 |
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I'm still waiting on the arrival of my order to finishe what I need for the creation of the piece. If it doesn't arrive soon I will probably be forced to try a different route. In other news I've sent off the type to be cut and when that's finished I'll affix it to the foam board. Past that it's really just a matter of setting the whole thing up. Here's to hoping I can put it where I'd like to in the Art building. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Monday, 26 October 2009 10:49 |
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With the proposal approved for this project, I've started gathering the elements together. Most should be pretty simply to get access to, but I will have to wait on printing for the poster and several bits of tubing to arrive which could extend the time needed to assemble everything. I'm also hunting for a thick red plastic bag to use for one component of the piece. Due to all of the various elements and the nature of the piece, I probably won't be making a large number of posts on the progress of this project. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Thursday, 08 October 2009 14:34 |
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 Last night I finished cutting the wooden pieces and burning the edges. Since I seem to be lacking both a wood burning tool and soldering iron, and my backup plan of using the tip of a hot glue gun to burn the edges failed me, I was left with the last alternative: the stove in the kitchen. With much care to not clip my fingers on the hot burners, I got the effect I mostly wanted and finished gluing them together. I'll edit this post later to include the in progress shot of the burnt edges. In the mean time, I've used the assembled wood section to extrapolate the dimentions for the foam backing and cut that out as well. After that I took a top down photo of the pieces to use as a template to construct the digital portion of the work which I finished up the today and assembled the wood, pirnt, and backing. All that remains is to blacken the paper edges so it blends with the black foam backing. After that I'll evaluate the piece and possibly add more wooden bits to enahnce the design. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 14:48 |
 I haven't forgotten this, and I should be posting some photos tomorrow or so. The concept is finished and a bit differend than I'd initally invisioned. I'd first though of doing a poster and I may yet add type to it, but as it stands now I've moved more towards a more design piece. I've wanted to combine the layered wood with the printed design so I've chosen a rather odd shape that is an amalgamation of the cut wood and sheets of paper. Upon studying the original artists works a bit more throroughly, it occurred to me that most of them are fairly small. So instead of a larger peices as I'd originally envisioned, I'm going to be reducing the size considerably due to this reason and the size of the balsa boards I can get access to. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Friday, 02 October 2009 13:23 |
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 In a not quite as rapid as actually print the file time frame, my project has finally arrived. I'll post some images of the final appearance, but here are a couple of shots of the piece right out of the box. A quck note, contrary to my initial tests, the material proved to be surprisingly flexible and springy. In some cases I was able to twist it almost 180° without it snapping
 . I even had to resort to using cutters to snap the material after throwing it as hard as possible at the ground fialed to cause breakage in the print. The second area of difficulty was assembling the shattered pieces. It seems the material this time was somewhat porous and absorbed the superglue I applied preventing the pieces from sticking. Eventually I was able to get the glue to hold. Despite these setbacks and adjustments I think the project still came out alright with the remaining aspects of the material I was exploiting working as planned. |
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Written by Aaron Dickey
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 19:35 |
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According to UPS, my project is floating around campus somewhere, so hopefully that will magically reaveal itself on my desk tomorrow morning and I can assess how it's printed and finish out the effect I was aiming for. On a secondary note, I've taken to the work of Anthony Roussel as a very interesting idea that I'm hoping to explore with my design work. I guess I just like materials that layer up... my inner photoshop is escaping into the material universe... |
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