So last week I was playing my ps3. Yes, I love video games I blame that on my brother.. Well I noticed that my ps3; 1. is very ugly and bulky and black. 2. that it was collecting way too much dust making underneath my tv look pretty ugly. I decided to make a skin for my ps3. Some of you make know what a skin is while others may not, I will explain just so we are all on the same page. A "skin" is just that something that covers the outside of something else. Or as I look at it something that protects the important stuff. These skins are printed on a type of sticky paper almost like a bumper sticker, but you can remove the skin.
I wanted something abstract but nice to look at. Lately I have been working with faded rays in the background of my art. When I say rays I mean it looks like rays of light are beaming out of the background of the image. You can see in the picture that follows.
I also wanted to go with the color scheme of my office/ spend all my time in room. Those colors are a light/dark gray, a lot of orange, lime green, some black and a dash of red. I incorporated some of those colors into the design of the ps3 skin. I also added some purple to against the green and the orange. As you can see I did a lot of over-lapping with the colors to make it look like there is some texture on the flat surface. Also I think the rays in the background add some contrast to the image with the dark gray and light gray.
As you can see in this image, the skin wraps all the way around the ps3. It does not go on the back or the bottom. The skin is printed in many different pieces on two different sheets. You have to take the pieces off and stick them to the ps3 very carefully, lining up each piece. Now knowing that it is printed in separate pieces, I had to remember to line up the rays and swirls perfectly so that the image would have a cohesive look on all sides. This was very challenging when trying to lay out the art work on the template. The reason being is that you had to make sure all of the pieces of the artwork were the same size and each little swirl had to line up. I think I accomplished the job quite nice. I am very pleased with how the skin came out. It makes my ps3 not such an eye sore anymore, now I think it is a conversation piece.
This is me in my work space. I also like to create t shirts. I got a screen printer set up in this space. The logo on the screen and on the shirt I am wearing is for my company AHLIES. It is pronounced all-ees, after my last name and a simple trick on a skateboard called an ollie.
The Logo on the T-shirt is an A with the center being a skateboarder who is doing a trick. I came up with this logo a couple of months ago after a lot of sketches. I can't remember where it came to me but I remember the idea hitting me like a 2x4.
I have been meaning to do this for awhile. I am just very bad with introductions. Hi, My name is Jamie and I design things. I also love photography, I bring my camera a sketch pad and a pencil everywhere. Most people don't understand that but there is inspiration in everything we do and see. When you sit in LA traffic for 2 hours of your day you get a lot of ideas.
My main focus at the moment is skateboard graphics. This has been an ongoing project for 2 years now and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. I came up with the idea for my senior thesis design project. I decided to make up a skateboarding line that was socially and politically aware. That was the main emphasis of my senior project; that these skateboards would be like moving billboards. So the designs on the boards reflected things that were going on in society.
Now that I have graduated I still design skateboards but the imagery is different. It does not only show things that are going on in society, they are now works of art. Most people who want the skateboards don't even want to ride them, they want to hang them on their walls as art pieces.
I feel like this blog could be like one big critique for me. I will be adding images of my work daily and would love for any comments. Negative or positive feedback in any way is good.
As you can see in this image, the skin wraps all the way around the ps3. It does not go on the back or the bottom. The skin is printed in many different pieces on two different sheets. You have to take the pieces off and stick them to the ps3 very carefully, lining up each piece. Now knowing that it is printed in separate pieces, I had to remember to line up the rays and swirls perfectly so that the image would have a cohesive look on all sides. This was very challenging when trying to lay out the art work on the template. The reason being is that you had to make sure all of the pieces of the artwork were the same size and each little swirl had to line up. I think I accomplished the job quite nice. I am very pleased with how the skin came out. It makes my ps3 not such an eye sore anymore, now I think it is a conversation piece.
