Our final assignment for my Typography class at the University of Denver was (in my group’s case) a poster for Buy Nothing Day 2006. Rick Griffith had us working at his studio in downtown Denver, MATTER. My group each produced a proposal in Illustrator/Photoshop and mine was the one we chose to produce. We finalized a design, with some pointers from Rick, and then we broke down the image into color plates (so to speak) for screen printing. I printed each of these plates in black on transparency, then we used the transparencies to expose screens. We took turns printing the screens on some huge glossy paper, and our posters were born!

Our Typography instructor, MATTER‘s Rick Griffith, provided us with the content for a poster and then turned us loose with the type design for it. The copy was from a series the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum put on. This image is one of several color versions I experimented with. The printed version is over 3′ wide.

I produced quite a few t-shirts and other apparel items for Kast-A-Way Swimwear. They would negotiate the rights to produce the “official” shirt for many championship meets they were vending at.

My shirt for the Ohio LSC Long Course Championships, known to insiders as “Ohio AA’s.” This was the official 2005 shirt. In my swag archive at home I have the only unsold shirt from the entire edition. This shirt was a 4-color process designed to imitate elements of a soccer shirt the boss had seen before. I did my best to make it my own.

I was waiting to get on a plane to Denver when I got the call asking me to design this shirt. I sketched it on the plane. They wanted something “classic” and we settled on an old “woody” station wagon. A surf scene was built around it because the meet organizers wanted to somehow integrate the names of every single participating team into the design. They seemed happy with how it turned out, but I was never really satisfied. It looked better on a non-yellow shirt, for one. This design was later recycled for a meet in another region. It looked better on the blue background of that merchandise.

YMCA Short Course (Winter) National Championships, 2006. They wanted a hibiscus design like they were seeing on lots of college merchandise at the time. I gave them one. There wasn’t much to do on this one except some minor permutations for things other than the shirt.

For my Digital Video class at DU, we were required to put together a live VJ performance. I decided to mix video live with Nintendo’s Electroplankton play on my Nintendo DS. The clip below is the first 5 minutes of that performance. The sound is ahead of the video because the video had to be captured from the DS screen by my iSight webcam, then fed through the video mixing program, GridPro, then recorded with the Audio. Would have been nicer with a dev kit for the DS, but there wasn’t room in the budget.

For my Digital Cinema class at DU, we were instructed to use audio and video from different movies to make a trailer mash-up in the fine tradition of Brokeback to the Future, Shining, and Toy Story 2: Requiem. We were encouraged but not required to use Disney for one component. For mine, I used the unaltered audio from the Beauty and the Beast theatrical trailer and painstaking selected shots from The Rocky Horror Picture Show that I thought matched them best. This was a heck of a lot of fun to do.