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Under The Banner Of Heaven

James — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:30:37 +0000

Yesturday I had to complete an assignment for class that involved me creating a book cover. I recently read an interesting book entitled Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. It was a great read, so I decided to do a typographical rendition of its cover.

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Fluid Snowboarding

James — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:23:25 +0000

Hello everybody! Just wanted to upload a new piece that I’ve been working on. This incredible photo was taken by my good friend Gustav Ohlsson and features a greasy snowboarder, Chris Bradley, ollieing over a slow sign at a ski hill. The photo was taken at night and features some really creative lighting. Nice work Gustav!

I wanted to over-emphasize the movement of the snowboarder and the fluidity that snowboarding can feel and look like. Sometimes it feels like nirvana because its an incredible feeling when everything comes together and tricks and moves are painless and require minimal effort. Your snowboard almost becomes just an extension of your own body and you can do almost anything with it. That’s what this photo looked and felt like to me, so I wanted to exaggerate that.

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Zombie Characture!

James — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:02:34 +0000

Had this done while I was at a metal festival! It’s so amazing, I’m so pumped that I’ve been zombified!

Zombie Bones!

Abduzeedo Tutorial

James — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:19:04 +0000

Just finished a really fun Abduzeedo tutorial. It plays around with retro geometric vectors, took around 30min to complete and was a blast to work on. I’m hoping to take some of the textures and techniques to other pieces that I am currently working on, I’ll hopefully have something posted soon. So let me know what you think!

The 99 Percent – A Behance Conference

James — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:05:04 +0000

Well in exactly 4 weeks, Graeme Duckett and myself will be flying to New York City to attend The 99 Percent Conference, put on by the lovely people at Behance.

This looks to be a radical 2-day conference, take a look at who’s speaking:

Michael Bierut – Partner, Pentagram
Cheryl Dorsey – President, Echoing Green
Seth Godin – Author & Blogger
Jill Greenberg – Photographer
Robert Hammond – Co-Founder & President, Friends of the High Line
Jeffrey Kalmikoff – CEO, Threadless
Jake Nickell – CSO, Threadless
Ji Lee – Creative Director, Google Creative Labs
Jason Randal – Theorist on Developing Expertise
Scott Thomas – Design Director of New Media, Obama for America

We’re pretty pumped on the opportunity and are looking forward to meet these people and hear what they have to say. If your going to be there, let us know! And we’ll hang out, maybe drink some beers? Who knows, might even grease a dancefloor or two! Heck ya!