where the streets have no name… but this one’s called fremont

07/08/2015 by alaundre

Fremont Street Experience : learn more about it here View larger images ( minus the experience )  : alaundre : gallery Extra and alternate images not included in the Gallery below :   I’ve passed by this place before but it was usually after midnight when the festivities have ended. I did remember seeing it featured in U2’s video, but other than that, was unaware what it actually looked like first hand what was i looking for again?

Categories: art | design, create • Tags: abstract, design, digital photography, filter, las vegas, lights, locations, neon lights, night photography, photography, travelling, typographic, typographic art

give you one to grow on

04/10/2015 by alaundre

 calligraphy mural by usugrow      |      upper playground gallery october 2014   the two above are my favorites from the show…mainly because these were not in his most recent book     other book by usugrow on my shelf ° my collection of shirts ° something to grow on

Categories: random / life, seen • Tags: art, art books, artist, books, calligraphy, design, inspiration, pen and ink, typographic, typographic art, typography

a not wood box

04/07/2015 by alaundre

While protoyping and setting up the digital cutter to make the parts for this gift box, found some scrap wrapping material for testing. Don’t know what material it is exactly, but it gives me some ideas for a book cover….. I’d forgtotten Tilda Swinton was in this music video |

Categories: art | design, create • Tags: arts & crafts, design, packaging, packaging design

a book of covers : criterion designs

04/06/2015 by alaundre

A lavishly illustrated coffee-table book celebrating thirty years of artwork from the Criterion Collection. The most exciting names in design and illustration today apply their talents to some of the most important and influential films of all time. This volume gathers highlights from designs commissioned by the Criterion Collection, featuring covers, supplemental art, and never-before-seen sketches and concept art plus a gallery of every Criterion cover since the collection’s first laserdisc in 1984. From avant-garde experiments to big-budget blockbusters, cult […]

Categories: materialism, seen • Tags: art books, books, cover design, criterion collection, design, packaging design

typographic shoes

04/24/2014 by alaundre

35th Anniversary Edition of Adidas’s classic Superstar sneakers, designed by Underworld/Tomato. I managed to get a lightly used one recently in my size (I probably wouldn’t wear it that much either) . Which kind of begs the question, if I wasn’t going to actually wear it, why did I have to wait for the right size? Made with 3M reflective material but used in a much more subtle manner. It’s certainly more subdued than the more recent Air Jordans that […]

Categories: materialism • Tags: 3M, adidas, design, graphic design, retro, retro kicks, retro sneakers, run dmc, shoes, sneakers, superstar sneakers, typographic, typographic art, typography

receding | introvert

04/23/2014 by alaundre

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: abstract, art, design, found art, graphic design, musings, photography, random image, symbols, typographic, typographic art, typography

bareback : a tomato project

04/08/2014 by alaundre

recently acquired an old book from my wishlist . Written and Designed by Tomato Bareback is brilliant. A stunning collection of personal work created and compiled by the members of the world-renowned, London based art collective, Tomato. It was 1991 when Steve Baker, Michael Horsham, Karl Hyde, Jason Kedgley, Rick Smith, Simon Taylor, Dirk Van Dooran, John Warwicker and Graham Wood pooled their creative talent and started a journey that would become one of the major success stories of the […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: art, books, design, design books, graphic arts, graphic design, typographic design

astheyleavebecomeshardertoholdonto

12/19/2013 by alaundre

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: abstract, abstract patterns, cellphone photography, design, digital camouflage, graphic design, life, musings, patterns, textures, thoughts, typographic art, typographic design

boundaries : multimedia experiment (1.5)

11/11/2013 by alaundre

– Example:

Categories: art | design, create, listen, random / life • Tags: abstract, audio visualizer, boredom, design, graphic arts, graphic design, motion graphics, multimedia, multimedia design, social media, typographic design, video

boundaries : multimedia experiment

11/10/2013 by alaundre

– What You’ll Need: Smartphone or other video recording equipment Music, your choice, electronic or dance preferably Instructions: 1. Start playing the music. (Youtube link provided at the bottom of this post just as an example) 2. Take your phone or video equipment and take a video of any part of the animated gifs below zoomed in to one or two of the gifs. You can scroll up and down if you’d like. 3. That’s pretty much it. A semi […]

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: abstract, boredom, design, graphic arts, graphic design, motion graphics, multimedia, multimedia design, social media, typographic design, video