New York Times: Turkish Edition from Quba Michalski on Vimeo.

This is our one minute advertisement for the launch of Turkish Edition of The New York Times.

We constructed typographic versions of the most recognizable landmarks in Manhattan and Istanbul, and created a compact tour taking the audience from the New York Harbor all the way to the Bosphorus. Actual pages from the first issue of the newspaper were used to create the textures used in the scenes. The financial news page became NYSE and Wall Street, entertainment news turned into Times Square, and so on.

The result is 60 seconds of typographic goodness, mastered in 2K cinema resolution.

Original post at:

http://imagonewmedia.com/project.php?code=NYTT

Some of you may know I have an upcoming trip planned to Costa Rica. While I’m there, I hope to get wifi in certain locations so I can keep friends and family back home posted on how things are going. I just downloaded the Wordpress app for iPhone and decided to give it a test!

Also testing a picture upload.

These posters kick  ass! Enough said. Enjoy.

For Amy Oastre & Courtney Rowson of Stitch, there is no identity/branding project they can’t handle! I love their design style and the use of letterpress! Here are few inspirational images:

“35mm is a shortfilm about cinema itself. We picked 35 of our favorite movies and tried to simplifly them as far as possible. The outcome is a 2 minute journey through the history of film. Take a close look and tell us if you’ve recognized them all!”

I recognized Titanic, Jaws, Rosemary’s Baby, Physco, James Bond, Exorcist, and Toy Story. If I find the key that lists all the movies referenced, I’ll repost!

Here are a few shots from the event I photographed two weekends ago. Now that I have an event under my belt using my Canon Digital SLR, I’ve realized I need to buy some more equipment if I want to pursue photography more passionately. A major problem I was had was with lighting. The party started around 7pm so there was still a lot of sunlight, but as the night went on I needed to switch to using flash. The standard flash on the camera is not great for taking photos in low light areas. It flashes a multiple times so it can focus and it’s distracting. I need better lenses and flash!

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This is going to be a quick post, but I feel with everyone becoming more computer savvy these days, that graphic design is starting to become watered down. Anyone with a page layout program can “design” something and the explosion of cheap outlets to purchase stock photos and illustrations is only helping.

This is a redesign for the Romania tourism. The image on the bottom left is the original stock illustration. You’ll see the Romania logo uses the exact illustration of the leaf. On the bottom right, an Irish company called Change Transport uses the illustration only making simple edits by adding spacing and adding a third wheel. WHERE’S THE CREATIVITY IN THAT!?

After seeing some of my prints and oil spill posters, friends ask me what exactly a screen print is and how do I have the space/equipment to make them in my apartment. This post will be dedicated to a behind the scenes look at printing my oil spill poster.

I first got in to screen printing a year ago after I purchased my first Speedball kit. My first attempts didn’t turn out well, but I wasn’t going to stop. I co-worker and I were talking about screen printing at work and she sent me a link to a Michelle Saint Onge’s website. The day before she saw her on Martha Stewart giving a demo about screen printing with old picture frames. I read her blog where she gives very valuable information that led me to doing more research in setting up my own screen printing setup. Since then, I’ve become a little more efficient. I still have a lot to master, but I think i’m finally on the right track.

Step 1: I start out by creating the design in Illustrator and then printing it out on 8.5×11 ink-jet safe transparencies. Since I will be using photo emulsion, the printout only needs to be printed out in black to block out the light that will be referenced later. (NOTE: If you use multiple colors in your design you will have to print that many transparencies and create that many screens).

Step 2: Now it’s time to expose the screen. Before I created the transparency I put photo emulsion on my screen so it could be drying. Photo emulsion is light sensitive so I could not take a photo. I placed my screen face down and place the transparency on top. Then I have a 250 Watt light bulb about 15-18 inches from the screen and leave it on for 10 mins. During this time, the light is exposing everything that isn’t blocked out by the transparency. Since my art work is printed in black, that area is being protected.

Step 3: Now that my screen has been exposed for 10 minutes, I need to wash it out. Since most of the screen wasn’t blocked out, the emulsion hardened and will block ink from going through those parts later. Make sure all the emulsion has been washed out of your design. You can tell by holding it up to the light and seeing if you can see through it.

Step 4: Once the screen dries, you’re ready to print. I use an old card-board table donated by my Mom that I mounted two hinges on. The red that you see on the screen below is filler. Since I want the last pelican to be red I have it blocked it. Usually for two colors you would need two screens but this color is used minimally that you can cheat it by using filler.

Step 5: Now it’s time for ink! I lay a line of ink at the top of the screen and use a squeegee to pull the ink down the screen. I had to act fast so the ink wouldn’t dry int the screen and I didn’t get to take any photos of this process, but here is the finished first color.

Step 6: I previously mentioned how I was using the same screen to print both colors but I had a brain fart and started cleaning out the first screen so I had to repeat the steps and make another screen for the red pelican.

Step 7: Repeat the inking process with red ink. Let them dry and you’re finished!

This post is inspired from a couple illustrators I’ve stumbled upon over the last few years; however I’ll only feature one. I found Tad Carpenter a while back and now keep tabs on his work through his website and follow him on Twitter. His style is very playful and has an eye for creating great color combinations. He has illustrated several children’s books and band posters, but it was his monster mix ups that got me back drawing in my sketchbook.

Below is a feature from todays page. I started off Googling “monster sketches” and then found a couple images I liked and started sketching away. At first, I was randomly sketching on the page and after 4 or 5, I decided to tie them all together. Then I went a step further and scanned my sketchbook page, brought it into Photoshop and started painting in between the lines. This is sad to say, but in the 6+ years I’ve been a designer, this is probably the first time I’ve ever illustrated something this way. Enjoy!

Today, a colleague sent me this link for Hipstamatic, a very cool photography iphone app. It reminded me of the QuadCamera app I purchased a while back and today I took it for a test drive in Downtown Dallas. QuadCamera is very easy to use and has a lot of layout and color options ranging from black and white, vivid, dull and high contrast.

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