This is an older project I never posted anything about. I met some people from a web company called Uxebu. On their website they had a line “97% Human”. I once asked them, what’s the other 3%? Is it Beer? Hence the slogan 97% Human, 3% Beer. I made a mock of a tshirt design for it. Here it is:
I was working on setting up a favicon for this site. You can see it here: The process was simple. I created a mock in Sketch using the Futura Font for the “Z”. I then brought the image into Icon Composer, and exported it as an ICO. I modified the functions.php for the theme to include a function for rendering the link tag in the wp_head, and that should be it....
On Christmas Eve last year I made a new close friend. She asked me if I wanted to train and do a Triathlon in May. This past weekend was that Triathlon. On Friday, my creative drive was very focused on the triathlon. Here was a sketch I made:
One of my very good friends successfully defended her PhD yesterday in mechanical engineering (really astrophysics, but they called it mechanical engineering). The only think I could think of all day was a logo. She made the mistake of saying that I could call her Dr. anything once she graduated. Her new nickname from me is Dr. McHotPants. Here was the logo I drew for her:
I’ve explained what I’m doing, but here is why: We live in a world dominated by consumption. The fundamental model of our world is capitalism. Consumption of products created by others. Even now as I’m typing this, I’m a consumer. This machine was not built by me. The software I’m using I didn’t write. The keys I’m bombarding with my fingers have a cost associated with them. The coffee that I’m sipping on was purchased just down the street....