JONSSON

here is my final heraldic shield for the Jonsson Family

THE LETTER A PRESENTS...

My sketch

my sketch/tracing of the Icelandic coat of arms. pretty similar to the one i posted but I am gonna add some accents to the wings and maybe make a funky color change. 

Banner addition

this is the banner style that I am going to incorporate into the coat of arms. Along with this slight modification I am going to also alter the coat of arms a little bit. My goal is to keep the idea of the Four Protectors but to change them slightly to add my own touch. The middle of the banner will read "Jonsson" in Old English font hopefully, we'll see when its a little further along. 

Iceland is green, greenland is ice

For the heraldic logo, I am going to do a slight remake of the current Icelandic National Coat of Arms. My father is damn near 100% Icelandic so I thought I would do a "logo" for the Jonsson family. Jonsson is the Icelandic spelling of Johnson and he is pretty proud of his heritage so what better than to incorporate this project with the Jonsson family. He actually looks kind of like the "giant" on the right side of the piece so it fits even better. Also, I am going to take away to rock underneath the shield and going to put a banner that says "Jonsson" or "Iceland." Haven't decided quite yet. 

ALEX TRIO

My bro gets jealous of himself!

Lego Rabbi

here is my lego rabbi. got the inspiration from those little lego dudes 

Poison Control.

this is my first design from the letters X, O, C, V, L and a parentheses. Forgot to post these awhile back so I'm a little behind. 

A Little History of Stussy

Stussy was created by Shawn Stussy in 1980 around the Laguna Beach area. Applying his signature "tag" to his home made surfboards, t-shirts, or anywhere he could "deface public property" in order to get his name known. Gaining inspiration from the punk scene of the late 70's and the new DIY hip-hop scene of the 80's, Shawn Stussy incorporated the music scene into a fashion statement for everyone from reggae artists to beach bums to your next door neighbor. The goal of this ground breaking brand was to break the mold of the standard clothing everyone wore and to explore new ways in fashion; much like the music scene of the late 70's and early 80's where, in order to succeed, you needed to be original. As time passed, Stussy gained more and more populairty for its "no boundaries" in fashion and design. Much of what we see today in world-wide brands like Billabong, Quiksilver, or RipCurl is influenced by the originality of Stussy throughout the years. 

Fixed the S a little, the FINAL FINAL

I fixed the "S" so it looks like it was done with a sweeping motion with a spray paint can. The overall idea of the Stussy logo is to give the feeling that it was quickly spray painted on a wall, sidewalk, surfboard, etc. 

orange you glad i changed the color

a lil green and orange

not too shabby

finished product. not too shabby but it could use some work. 

finished tracing

here is the final tracing with the anchor points that I made on the left, doesn't look to bad at all. i'll fil it in, think i'm going to go with a lime green or a bright orange. Stussy is a SoCal brand so the bright colors fit it perfectly

that damn X

full tracing, i gotta figure out how to get the X from being in there. Also, if you go to view, and do outline, you'll be able to see if there are any stray points (the little x's) that you need to delete. looks pretty good.

these damn dots are a B, or im just stupid :)

to do the two dots by the T, i first tried to trace them using only the pen tool but I later realized that I could use the ellipse tool for a foundation then manipulate the ellipses to what i wanted them to be. one of them is outlined right now and the other is in the middle of being customized. it's all about making life easier 

inching away

getting closer, but i still got some stuff to do. fixed some edges but still have a couple to do. 

i'm blind

when i was doing the tracing, I found out that for some brilliant reason that the pen tracings i was making were red and when you lay that over a pink text, its hard to see so i started having the outline show up in black so i could see what i was doing so far. 

halfway done....woohoo

this is partial trace of the Stussy logo that i had done by about 9 pm. notice some of the edges where they need to be round, gotta go in and fix those. 

found the right logo, diggin that color

here is the logo i found through google, there are a few slight differences from the first one but this is the real one. it showed up kinda out of focus when i blew it up to 100% on illustrator but thats ok. just gettin to know the pen tool so i didn't need a pristine copy if i was going to recreate it myself. just about to break out my pen...but i gotta use my layers first. This is a very simple logo as far as layers go so all I needed to do was add another layer on which I did my tracing.

day one...get the CORRECT logo from the web

this was the logo i downloaded at first but later realized it had already been traced and the logo itself is a redraw so i decided to scrap this version

david carson postcard front

gonna try and do a focus on his surf aspect of his career, definitely thinkin about typography as well cus its his main deal. 

David Carson Bio

David Carson is considered one of the most popular graphic designers in the world. He is the President of David Carson Design, Inc. (DCD) with offices located in Del Mar, California and Zurich, Switzerland. Carson's client list includes everybody from Surf Culture to Meg Ryan to Xerox to Nine Inch Nails. He has been named "Art Director of the Year" by Creative Review Magazine and has also received "Best Cover of the Year" and "Best Overall Design" for his work in Surf Culture Magazine. His first book, The End of Print, is the top selling graphic design book of all time, selling over 200,000 copies, and printed in 5 different languages. Carson also has work featured in "The History of Typography" and "The Encyclopedia of Surfing." David Carson is currently working as Creative Director for the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina. 

simple yet not so much