My photographic skills are on par with my pen-and-ink skills: every now and then I am pleasantly surprised with myself but it's no secret that without Photoshop and Illustrator I'd be anything BUT a designer.
Way, waaay back when I was working as a marketing assistant and technical writer/graphic designer, a fellow from our office in Sweden came by for a big marketing get-together. He showed me some brochures he was working on and I was stunned to learn that they had been created in-house! What? How? Why, with Aldus PageMaker and this new program, Adobe Photoshop. (Thank you, Ake Eriksson! )
I was hooked. How hooked? Well, my employer didn't see a real call for desktop publishing, so I would come back to the office after-hours to teach myself how these programs worked. And this was when Photoshop had only a single-level undo! Maddening! Exciting! Miraculous! Look, Jim, here's a picture I made of your dog standing over the Alps! Hey, Rox, remember your red Christmas party dress? Ha, look, it's blue!
I was never able to convince management to let me take over the aesthetic side of our proposals and reports, unfortunately, even though I mocked up hundreds of pages at night. Why bother when you can just print it out from Word? That's fancy enough, don't you think?
This was also when I developed an incredible fondness for white space, as it was frowned upon as wasteful.
Various Print/Type Projects
Drayton Glass Works
CD and Promo for Hazel Virtue
Photomanipulation is Fun
Lately I've been trying to manipulate photos to give them a dreamy, super-saturated cast.
And I cannot resist the occasional grungy, lomo-like look.
Or the artful blur.
