New online portfolio

Since completing Senior Studio at KCAI I've begun to find a very clear path to take in the coming months. I think a lot of design is about telling stories (put very simply) and developing a brand identity system for someone is essentially finding out what their story is and then finding ways to tell that to the world. Brand identity design is a favorite of mine so I guess that makes me... a visual story teller!

You can see my new portfolio site here.

Way finding on KCAI campus

Much of the way finding on the KCAI campus is different, seems people aren't really sticking to the style guidelines or if there is even a cohesive system to tie all the buildings together. Here's a few examples of the different signs on campus:

What Sean and I are thinking about is a system that ties all the buildings together. Something like this:

To the Rescue

A monument in honor of the 2CV, the little car with a big personality. Designed in 1939 by Pierre-Jules Boulanger the 2CV was a helping hand to the peasants who were not able to afford the car of the day. Boulanger came up with the solution nicknamed the "umbrella on wheels", an inexpensive, as friendly vehicle that could transport a farmer and his goods (including a box of eggs) across a ploughed field without breaking anything.

A new model

The 2CV monument looks like this. It's got that hammock feeling that the original car used, it's colorful to signify diversity and it sits on springs so you can move around on it like you were traveling over a ploughed field! I think the shape of it almost looks like a 2CV too. Nice.

I've made the height of it bigger than a man, when you get in it (you'll have to climb up into it) you'll feel all embraced sitting in the huge seat. I think bouncing around in this thing could be really fun. It looks fun too, just like the car!

Celebrating the 2CV

I'm not sure where this will be in the end but this idea of supporting someone I like. I thought it might be a hand but that might be too cheesy. All I have to do now is bring the digital into it somehow and make it less like a park bench.

The monument would be in rural France, maybe there would be many of them dotted all over the countryside. Maybe a farmer would stroll past one and sit in it for a few minutes. It would be comfortable, lift his feet off the ground and remind him of a time a little car saved his ancestors from breaking their backs on the plough.

Orne, Basse-Normandie, France (photo by Magic Foundry on Flickr).

And here's a model of the seat. Maybe it should be covered and sprayed. It's missing some kind of beauty.