i really wanna see everyones stuuuffffff!

map

hey everyone! so i decided to create this map that documents the places I went on my world trip-- sort of the time that I felt most like the "quote"

- so there's a flood of black (a pantone, i have yet to pick it, maybe a purplish black) 

- the X'es are all embossed; the white X'es are paper, and the light grey are printed with metallic silver ink. 

- the background text is just embossed, no ink, except for the -make much of time- which is printed with metallic silver ink.

So it will be very texturey, hopefully it will work without cracking the ink/paper?

let me know what you think!

quick edit

Hey guys,
quick edit to the piece, I changed the wing, I thought it looked too juvenile. And I made sure the type is readable when it's printed. Anyways my add ons could be:
Minimal: Just a thick UV varnish on the connections and buttefly guy, (Could also be emboss)
Not-so-Minimal: Emboss on background connections (or varnish), and yellow metallic foil on the letters.

now this is more like it!

RGB'd

right onnnnnnnnnn

so this is what it's SUPPOSED to look like.

now, thoughts? general criticisms?

More stuff to look at!

Here's what I've been working on. My concept is kind of inspired by vanitas and memento mori images. Y'know, those old still lifes that are full of skeletons and dying flowers and soap bubbles and hourglasses and are supposed to remind you that life is fleeting, and every moment is temporary.   

My challenge to myself was to make this whimsical looking, not depressing, and to do it without any skulls (because skulls are one of my things that I use way too often). I started working with this idea of mostly mundane objects disappearing and becoming memories.

I may change some stuff around before this is finished, and I'm especially undecided about the colors. Which of these two do you prefer?

(I'm thinking of doing some sort of gloss/varnish/clear foil/shiny on the bubbles)

a good book and a good cup of tea

Here is my calender submission.
The smoke bit will be embossed.
Let me know what you guys think!

here it is... sort of

It's pretty rough but the idea is mostly there. There's two pages on the pdf, because the lines on the second one will be gloss, so all you'll see at first will be what's on page one. The fish shapes will be more texture-ish kinda like rubberstamps (but i'll see how that turns out). the colour wheel might be more "graceful" in the ay it comes apart. and the lines (gloss) will be more refined (right now they are from an old image, I'll redraw new ones for this one and they'll be coming out of the orange fish's mouth. Let me know what you think and if you have any feedback since I missed the crit. I feel it's kind of obscure...

ta-da

thoughts?

not sure why it looks inverted because it's not supposed to beeee....

my leg feels wet

but in reality it is not

what I gots

Hey guys, I think i'm almost done the calendar piece, but I'm not sure what extra stuff I'll have yet. I've nixed the laser cutting idea, but I'm thinking I'm going to definitely have the background light blue stuff in either UV varnish, embossing, or maybe even a clear foil, something really subtle. I have a few ideas for the orange circles and text, but I'm thinking of either using a holographic foil on top of it, or printing 4C on silver foil, or replacing the Yellow with a metallic yellow pantone. Can the 4C be UV based inks? I like how the colours pop when you do that.
BTW, the butterfly is the chaos butterfly lol.