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Darker than Black wallpaper

Published on February 24, 2010 in anime and manga and design. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Changing rules/themes for the wallpaper challenges is the current fad of the designers’ at my workplace to keep it from being stale and boring. For today’s challenge, we decided to go for Style as our chosen challenge type; Pop Art was the winner on our votations, and the style used for our pieces.  Though I find the actual pop art’s description as confusing, I decided to use this definition:

A genre of art that uses elements of popular culture; often uses techniques from commercial art and advertising

Popular culture, specially on my case would revolve around no other thing than Anime. Darker than Black was my chosen Anime since it really is cool, and I always wanted to create a wallpaper for the series. I’m not really impressed with my work; though Hei is really making my desktop sexy, so I’m still happy. Hope you guys would like my little Darker than Black tribute as well.

Click here to view all the entries of ′Pop Art′ Wallpaper Challenge »

Ampersand

Published on February 17, 2010 in design. 9 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Last night we had our weekly wallpaper with another twist, since my other co-designers were already bored with the storytelling wallpaper challenges. The catch for this challenge was to be given a material to work with. We may use any style, any concept as long as we’ll have the material on our output.

Each of us were given the chance to state on what the material to use; we had votation afterwards. The material that won and used on our wallpapers was:

An ampersand ( & )

Girls & Curls is the name of my entry, using the ampersand as the base of the character’s hair. Font used on this piece is Bickham Script Pro, a font pretty enough perfect to create some lovely curls. I also used the letter “e” of the font for her eyes and lashes. Hope you like it.

Juan Tamad

Published on January 28, 2010 in design. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Tuesday this week, we had our wallpaper challenge but with a twist. Instead of having a non-designer office mate tell us the theme he/she wants, one designer (A) assigned a subject (whether it’s a person, object or just about anything), then designer A will tell the next designer (B) on what to do about the subject, then  designer B will tell designer C on what to do and this goes on, till the ending of the story will be done by designer A, assigned by the last designer. Implementation phase of the wallpaper challenge was still one hour.

The order of designers in this challenge was:
Wayne -> Michael -> Me -> Clyde -> Dominique -> Eman -> Lance -> Wayne

Wayne was the one who gave the subject, while Lance was the last designer in order and the one who gave the ending back to Wayne. We didn’t know what happened to the story with the other designers until the challenge ended, and we got to see all the wallpapers.

Our subject was “Juan Tamad”, a Filipino character named as “Lazy John”. Juan is so lazy that he would sleep under a tree with his mouth open to wait for a fruit to fall on his mouth. For more information about him you can read this Wikipedia article.

The task that was given by Michael to me was:

Juan Tamad is being held as a hostage by the ALIENS because he ate the special bayabas (guava fruit).

This was really fun compared to our normal challenges. I’d surely love to do this again. Oh yeah, the green stuff that’s on the Juan Tamad’s mouth is actually the bayabas that ended up looking like a ball, I know it lacks details.

I’ll place the link about this challenge; featuring all the designers’ work plus the story once we post it on DFC.