Happy October!
September was completely nutter. With wedding planning and client work out the wahoo, I was too late this month to get my October wallpaper submitted into Smashing on time, but I am still posting it here for you lovely people!
This month’s wallpaper was a sort of mashup of Halloween/Rock/Gothic/Hot Air Balloon madness (thanks to my tweep and fellow designer Dave Redford for the great idea to use a Black Sabbath song)! It’s titled, appropriately, Iron Man.
One of the perks to living in Boise is that there is a pretty big Hot Air Ballooning community here — not sure why, other than because Boise is AWESOME. Matt and I went to go see the “Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic” earlier this month, and I have been thinking of nothing but huge, rainbow balloons ever since. I am glad I could somehow incorporate them into my design portfolio!
And if you love Fillmore style art as much as I do, check out my Custom Fillmore Posters page to get a custom piece of your very own!
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This month’s free Fillmore wallpaper is dedicated to all you disco lovers! I consider this my homage to Earth Wind and Fire. Look for the lyrics in the disco glimmer lights!
Earth Wind and Fire’s “September” was released in 1978, and if this inspires you to listen to the song be warned it will be in your head ALL DAY.
And if you love Fillmore style art as much as I do, check out my new Custom Fillmore Posters page to get a custom piece of your very own!
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I’ve been getting my Fillmore on again. After realizing that I haven’t itched my hippie scratch in a while (that sounded dirty)… I have decided that from now on I will be posting a free Fillmore-esque wallpaper on my blog every month!
August is when my family usually goes on their annual Sailing trip, which is what inspired this month’s psychedelic treat! Enjoy!
And if you love Fillmore style art as much as I do, check out my new Custom Fillmore Posters page to get a custom piece of your very own!
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Happy late Earth Day!
MiX decided to get in on all the ‘environmental action’ and publish a Green Issue.
So, copying from the best Fillmore artists (as I usually do) the MiX cover was created!
Victor wants to turn the cover into a pet so he give it warm and tender care.
Yesterday I was struggling to finish a project for my Advertising class where we were instructed to design something that incorporated three elements about us.
Barf.I came up with a concept to take my favorite era of design, the late ’6os and ’70s, and incorporate things about me into a vintage Fillmore poster.
Besides the fact that the project was indeed due next week (instead of today like I thought), this was a large challenge for me from concept to finish.
My original inkling was to swap the profile of this woman with a profile of my mother from a photo taken of her in the ’70s. I tried and tried to make her look “chic” but all my efforts failed miserably. Two little birds on my shoulder (Victor and Dan) kept updating me on my “vector mom” journey, describing her first as “vector mom” then as “ape vector mom.”
So, the moral of this story … I have learned I suck at vector faces. So I wimped out (and since I THOUGHT I was running out of time), just traced the original poster’s face, and that was that.
My final project is shown above. NOTE TO SELF: Add Victor and Dan to my hate list.
