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Title
Figures at Windows
Category
Design
Title
Figures at Windows

Assignment

Originally published at FreakingNews.com, this variation shows the original side by side with my alteration.

Approach

Take one of the most tranquil scenes ever painted and turn it into a thermonuclear nightmare.

Results

Success.

Category
Design
Title
Trophy Movie Poster
Category
Design
Title
Trophy Movie Poster

Assignment

Create a movie poster that contains gruesome, fleshy typography.

Approach

Since the film was never made (and no images from it exist), I settled on making the title itself the prime element. Thus, the title had to convey as much horror as possible and hopefully suggest to the viewer that the poster is just the tip of the iceberg.

Results

Success. A number of people thought it was a real film and wanted to know more.

Category
Design
Title
Happy Bloody Easter
Category
Design
Title
Happy Bloody Easter

Assignment

Originally intended as a Today's Worst Weather cartoon, then (in original form) used as a TV bumper. This is an unpublished variation.

Approach

Get a real bunny next to a chocolate bunny, then add bites.

Results

Grimly sarcastic; no one minds biting into a chocolate bunny and joking about it, although the real thing is delicious, too, when cooked.

Category
Design
Title
Rossum Lowellus
Category
Design
Title
Rossum Lowellus

Assignment

Freelance

Approach

Attempted to graft one of Ross Lowell's recent photos to a butterfly's wings and create a new species.

Results

Success.

Category
Design
Title
Dragon Peak
Category
Design
Title
Dragon Peak

Assignment

Upgrading existing Today's Worst Weather cartoons. This was one of them.

Approach

Using or recreating original paths in Photoshop as the underlying structure, then adding new textures, lighting and color.

Results

Greater impact than the original. Also, this version contains no rain or snow, which a final cartoon is likely to contain.

Category
Design
Title
Fixed Attention
Category
Design
Title
Fixed Attention

Assignment

None

Approach

Start at the center

Category
Design
Title
Titanic Iceberg
Category
Design
Title
Titanic Iceberg

Assignment

Create an illustration depicting most of an iceberg's mass under water for an article on the R.M.S. Titanic disaster.

Approach

Divide the canvas so that three fifths is under the sea, yet keep relative proportions such that the Titanic is still recognizable as a passenger vessel. Add a tincture of inspiration from the original "Jaws" movie poster.

Results

It got published, didn't it?

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