http://www.smilingisfun.com documenting the output (as it were) Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:07:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2011/01/heddatron/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2011/01/heddatron/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:48:11 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/?p=142 This is definitely one of my more peculiar constructions. It’s not a color palette that I would have initiated but with enough finessing I grew to love it like one of my own. Original wallpaper design with gold gun/robot motif and vintage enamel picture frame. ROBOTS! Poster (11×17):]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2011/01/heddatron/feed/ 0 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2010/02/a-brief-narrative-of-an-extraordinary-birth-of-rabbits/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2010/02/a-brief-narrative-of-an-extraordinary-birth-of-rabbits/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:38:38 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/cms/?p=65 This lengthy-named production of a modern play was inspired by an actual event from 17th century England. There was live-action acting, puppetry, and video projections. I combined an 19th century engraving of a rabbit with close crops of photographs of English Victorian paper dioramas that I shot on a vacation at a London toy museum [...]]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2010/02/a-brief-narrative-of-an-extraordinary-birth-of-rabbits/feed/ 0 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2009/03/house-pizzeria-logo/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2009/03/house-pizzeria-logo/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:31:10 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/cms/?p=66 House Pizzeria is a fantastic independent restaurant that my good friends Scott and Sarah opened in the spring of 2009. It was in 2008 when they were still early in the planning stages and they asked me to design their logo. We went through a few rounds and came up with some good ones and [...]]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2009/03/house-pizzeria-logo/feed/ 0 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2009/01/iphigenia/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2009/01/iphigenia/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:27:25 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/cms/?p=59 This play incorporated a lot of video projections and rave/club-style lighting which I wanted to express in the visuals. The type and SVT logo was composed in Illustrator and exported as individual images. There are overlapping color swirls (long exposure photos of xmas lights) that were also exported as images. These were assembled on a DVD slideshow [...]]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2009/01/iphigenia/feed/ 0 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2008/10/unbeaten/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2008/10/unbeaten/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:32:58 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/cms/?p=62 This performance was a series of improv monologues inspired by professional football. Now, I don’t know much about football but one thing I do know is that I like the look of my own handwriting. My other favorite element on this project was creating the little logo in the bottom-right corner for the fictional Professional Football [...]]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2008/10/unbeaten/feed/ 0 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2007/10/voices-underwater/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2007/10/voices-underwater/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:31:51 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/cms/?p=61 I felt like I was really on a roll from Hamilton Township to Mud, to this one and right up through to the (ahem) rejected Unbeaten deisgn. They have rich texture, original photography (except for the couch–that’s stock), expressive typography (or hand lettering) and accurately represent SVT. I am really proud of this series of [...]]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2007/10/voices-underwater/feed/ 0 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2007/05/mud/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2007/05/mud/#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 04:36:15 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/cms/?p=64 I’ve always loved the little line-drawings in dictionaries. For Mud I did my take on one of those illustrations. The background photo is actual mud from my very own backyard. This design also features some of my famous handwriting and letter drawing. Poster (11×17):]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2007/05/mud/feed/ 0 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2007/05/hamilton-township/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2007/05/hamilton-township/#comments Wed, 02 May 2007 04:30:50 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/cms/?p=60 Poster (11×17):]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2007/05/hamilton-township/feed/ 0 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2006/12/10th-best-salvage-vanguard-holiday-ever/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2006/12/10th-best-salvage-vanguard-holiday-ever/#comments Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:46:29 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/cms/?p=79 Every holiday season Jason Neulander would come up with a word and his arsenal of performers would come up with 5-minute plays based on that word. This particular year’s word was “fire”. I think this was one of my favorite holiday designs.]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2006/12/10th-best-salvage-vanguard-holiday-ever/feed/ 0 http://www.smilingisfun.com/2006/09/thrush/ http://www.smilingisfun.com/2006/09/thrush/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:35:17 +0000 derek http://www.smilingisfun.com/cms/?p=63 Starting out with a great photograph by Christopher Shea it wasn’t hard to come up with a really nice design. I just let the type dance around the image picking up colors along the way.]]> http://www.smilingisfun.com/2006/09/thrush/feed/ 0