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Wayne St. Graphic Design 3

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of dropping in on Danielle Aubert's Graphic Design 3 class at Detroit's Wayne State University. I met some really cool students and saw some really cool work. Below is a small sampling of some of the projects, which were loosely based on the theme of machines.

 

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Unfortunately I didn't get the names of any of the students who made the above work, so please, if you're one of them, don't hesitate to contact me and I'll add it.

Illadelph/matic: Mick Boogie x Nas x the Roots

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Noted DJ and all-around bad dude Mick Boogie made this killer official mixtape of Nas x the Roots for Madden Bowl and contacted me about making the cover. Really happy with how everything turned out, I think it looks and sounds great. You can download this thing here for free, or check out Mick's mixtape-streaming site, mixstream.com

Three new big projects on the site, with an even bigger one on the horizon. Stay warm.

Top 20 Albums of 2011

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01 Sic Alps - Napa Asylum

02 Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania

03 Stephen Malkmus - Mirror Traffic

04 Panda Bear - Tomboy

05 City Center - Redeemer

06 Real Estate - Days

07 White Fence - Is Growing Faith

08 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

09 Ducktails - Arcade Dynamics

10 Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness

11 Tycho - DIve

12 Woods - Sun and Shade

13 Atlas Sound - Parallax

14 Megafaun - Megafaun

15 Cults - Cults

16 Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream

17 M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

18 Tennis - Cape Dory

19 Bottomless Pit - Blood Under the Bridge

20 the Dodos - No Color

 

Summer Jams '11

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 New mix for streaming / downloading here:

http://soundcloud.com/loganmills/summer-jams-11

 

Also I updated my portfolio quite a bit, and there's more coming. Happy summer!

Shaolin Jazz

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A little behind most of the rest of the internet on this one, but yeah, I made the cover for Shaolin Jazz: the 37th Chamber. This Wu-Tang x Jazz mixtape by DJ 2-Tone Jones actually came about because of an interview I did with Gerald Watson, and I worked with them on the cover. Hope you enjoy it, download this jammer here: http://www.mediafire.com/?rq6ypn00dhzi34v

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Just Vectorin' Around

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Working on so much stuff these days coupled with raising a three week old makes it difficult to maintain a "blog" presence, but here ya go. Slowly this stuff will get added to the site, like for example the recent OK Bollywood release, but here's a little teaser. Some vector goodness (my favorite kind of goodness).

Introducing Madeline Plum Walters

Iwata Asks: Mario's 25th

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The "Iwata Asks" series on Nintendo.com is probably my favorite thing on the internet. There are so many good design tips in these conversations, mostly from Miyamoto. Some of my favorites are:

 

 

 

 

You have to get used to thinking about how you can do something easily. That's a completely different approach than saying, "I'll work hard at it!"

 

Yeah. I do say, "Put forth effort," but I also say, "Don't put forth unnecessary effort."

 

When you do a poor job during times of input, there's no way your output will be good.

 

How should I put it? My parents always said, "Don't change your vessel all the time."

 

At the time, when someone came to me and said, "I'm having trouble because there isn't enough memory," I was—to be honest—really happy. (laughs) Seeing if you could achieve programming for the same functions with a smaller amount of memory was one way for a programmer to show off.

 

The above graphic is from when they first decided to make the sky blue in Super Mario Bros.

Read the Mario 25th Anniversary talk here.

Topps

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Related to something I'm currently working on. Not sure exactly how you'd categorize this illustration style but I really dig it.