Dec/090
Happy Holidays!
Holiday Hugs 'n Kisses from the man stuff wrecking crew!
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Happy Holidays from Chris Gilbert Design.
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This is also a 3 foot x 4 foot poster hanging in two separate locations @ the Hillside Art Center campus.
Guerilla Marketing (Bridge @ Hillside)
Advertising Department Message Board @ Hillside Campus
Kate Stevenson poses with the Bridge poster, after drawing a mustache on me.
Nov/090
Blue Man
The Artist's "Blue Period."
This is a behind the scenes look at my first video spot as an advertising design student at art center. I painted myself blue. Off to a great start.
Stay tuned…
Oct/093
Design 1: Project 1
These are comps for a project that ended up as 14×17 posters with the black shapes cut out of cardstock. A Painstaking process.
1. One Shape, Radially composed:
One Shape, Radially Composed
2. Two Shapes, Asymmetrically composed:
Two Shapes, Asymmetrically Composed
3. Three Shapes, Symmetrically composed:
Three Shape Composition, Symmetrically Composed
Oct/090
Typography 2: Project 1
Spread from my book about the Type Family: Clearview. (Click to enlarge)
This is a spread from a book I made from a research paper about the typeface Clearview, which is being designed to replace the Highway Gothic font family on road signs across America.
It was a really cool project, and as I’d mentioned earlier, I got to work with the actual typographer behind the project, James Montalbano… He graciously licensed me the font for free, a $1000+ value! So cool. Full text of the book is available upon request. Pictures of the completed book forthcoming!
Sep/090
Way overdue Art Center appreciation post
Wow. Art Center is incredible. This post will be an uncensored love fest, so it might not be for the squeamish or faint of heart. Impressionable minors would do well to avert their gaze.
Advertising History? Bob Matsumoto is my teacher. It helps that the teacher teaching advertising history actually made advertising history himself. He also is going to get Lee Clow to come talk to us. SERIOUSLY?! Yes.
Communications design? Lou Danziger is one of my teachers? Are you freakin’ kidding me? AIGA Medalist. You can’t make this stuff up, kids. Living legend.
Design 1? Cutting out shapes, and x-actoing my finger? Check. More upset about blood on project than own bodily harm? Check… And a critical phase of the Art Center sickness. “Oh god I cut my finger horribly” is not in my lexicon, but “Shit, I actually have to redo this now… Oh well it will be better the second time around!” totally is.
Typography 2: I have done a research paper on “Clearview,” the font that is going to replace Highway gothic on roadsigns across America. The icing? I’ve been in contact with James Montalbano, the font’s lead typographer, and he gave me a free license of the font in order to complete my project… Amazing. Plus it looks halfway decent. I’m moving up in the world. The final iteration of the project will be a stunning 8 page book. Get psyched!
It just keeps getting better and better. I’m making cool work, and meeting amazing new people- In addition to reconnecting with old friends, too. Go figure! Nick Arciaga, a buddy of mine that I hadn’t really seen since middle school goes here, and we’ve already connected, had lunch, and he invited me to a party this Friday… Did I mention I love this place?