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

random memories : and it was yellow

10/29/2013 by alaundre

true story, but not about marilyn.  photo taken during a trip to Palm springs | Forever Marilyn by Seward Johnson Disturbance font by Jeremy Tankard |

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: cultural icon, graphic design, iconography, photography, pop culture, random, reminisce, sculpture

dirtylaundre sessions no.132 : slasher flick dance party

10/29/2013 by alaundre

tracklist: Jeff Mills – The World of Worlds Layo & Bushwacka! – Close To Me Axel Bartsch – Yeahwoodya Coma – Cycle (Zombies In Miami Mix) Endian – DBPLT01 The Eyes In The Heat – Blood (Daniel Avery Remix) Scratch Massive – Nuit De Mes Reves John Talabot – Depak Inre Blond:ish feat Beyou – Inward Visions Total Accomplishment – You’re Alone (Red Lodge Oakland Mix) F.E.A.R. – Astrid Burial – Loner VC-118A – Thrusters Apparat – 44 (Noise Version) […]

Categories: art | design, create, listen, mix • Tags: adobe illustrator, art, design, doodles, drawings, graphic design, illustration, mixes, music, online radio, playlist, podcast, sketches, streaming radio, vector art, vector graphics, vector illustration

The Eyes / A Moment Before The Smile

05/16/2013 by alaundre

click on image to view wallpaper sized version [ N4K3D : Black Series 002 ] Most realistic illustration I’ve made so far (out of 4) in my own little vector/gradient mesh project, also the first to only use 1 block/shape with the gradient mesh. Still not the most efficient technique, but it does yield a nice effect (it looks a lot more realistic in smaller sizes). It was originally meant to be blurrier hence the title, but I spent a […]

Categories: art | design, create, random / life, seen • Tags: adobe illustrator, art, doodles, drawings, gradient mesh, graphic design, graphics, illustration, illustrator, photorealism, photorealistic illustration, stop motion animation, time lapse, vector art, vector graphics, vector illustration

making doodles with wires

05/09/2013 by alaundre

had to scrunch his legs to get him to stand up and support the upper body, but then messed up the proportions making its arms look longer than it should. view larger versions on my flickr page older post about sketching with wires

Categories: art | design, create, random / life • Tags: art, arts & crafts, doodles, drawings, graphic design, illustration, sculpture