These are the initial comps for the redesign of this site. I may need to fine-tune some colors, but overall I’m pretty happy with the general direction. I used a 16-column layout, which seems well-suited to the content of the Project Detail page. It should adapt well to the blog layout as well, where I’ll probably have something like 10/6 or 12/4, with the larger column-grouping devoted to posts and widgets living in the narrow column on the right.
PANTONE 386 C recreated in RGB color mode. I think it should be slightly greener:
Albers-style juxtapositions of colored squares. In this first one I varied brightness in steps of 20:
Brightness varied in steps of 40:
Saturation varied in steps of 20:
And, finally, saturation varied in steps of 40:
And, finally, here is my color palette composition. I started with the background color and varied only brightnesss and saturation, while maintaining a consistent hue:
This is what I came up with for a logo. It’s meant to be my initials. I started with ‘pg’ in the font BDDiscount (by my all-time favorite font foundry, Buro Destruct) and tweaked them a bit. This isn’t exactly what I was hoping to end up with, but I just don’t have the illustration skills yet to design my original idea (silhouette of a chimp holding a hammer and screwdriver). Anyway, not bad for a first attempt, I guess…
These are my revised business cards. Replaced the diagonal stripes with an undulating dot pattern that conveys texture but is a more legible ground for the text. I’m pretty happy with these, need to get some printed up soon.
I’ve already documented the genesis of this project idea pretty thoroughly here, but I wanted to provide a brief update on how it’s progressing. I’m still tweaking the pixel analysis and image processing algorithm, but I’m pretty happy with the basic concept. To recap, Where is Now? is a two channel video in which each pixel in a video is analyzed and compared to the corresponding pixel in the previous frame. One channel displays only pixels that change from one frame to the next, while the other displays only pixels that are the same. Viewed side by side, these moving images constitute a visual and conceptual outline of the elusive ‘now’ - that moment which is perpetually receding into the past and coming into being from the future. The now is that which simultaneously changes/differs and endures/repeats.
So, as the title of this post indicates, we had a hard time deciding on a final name for this project. I think in the end I like News Organ the best. Here is some looooooong-overdue video of the completed project. Unfortunately the audio really doesn’t do justice to the quality of the sound that you get in person, which is kind of ghostly and hypnotic and subtle.
