Showing posts with label pixel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pixel. Show all posts

17.7.11

Pixel Church: Saving Your Soul One Brick at a Time

 
    Each time we drive to the pet store, we get to pass this church.

   And each time we pass this church it is either raining,
   or I don't have my camera, or we're late.
   So after several months of coveting this eccentrically compelling architectural
   specimen from the passenger window,
   I finally got a chance to pull over and take a look.

   Unfortunately it was a day that the church was closed to the public...
   But if the outside is this good,
   my guess is the interior will be deserving of its own visit.
 
    Until then, please take your time and marvel over the swirling,
    textured, pixel magic that can be achieved by
    using a single, repeating element.
    Who knew a brick building could look this good!


    And for whatever reason,
    all of this very ordered and logical brick work was paired with this
    deeply perplexing Grauman's Chinese Theater-esque entryway.
 
    This royal blue tiled, bulging canopy fiercely battles with the
    rest of the church for style, scale, period, color, and compositional domination.
 
    Yet somehow, while this church really makes no logical sense
    from a design standpoint...
    I haven't seen a church quite this compelling in ages.

    So, anyone want to come to pixel mass with me?
    I'm really hoping that they're performing this song on repeat inside:



11.4.11

Logo a Go-Go

     I have been in the process of revamping my portfolio website
     sofia-borges.com
     and deciding on a logo is not easy.

     I began with something a bit heavy and perhaps overly bland.


     But that is gray scale.
     And I like color so much that maybe we should make it green instead.


     And that seemed good enough for a while...
     But then my boyfriend started making his website
     and after his first attempt at a logo, I found myself feeling a little jealous.


    By the time he got to his second iteration
    I found myself suffering from a serious logo complex.


    So I experimented.

    This was certainly an improvement from the the first but...
    Maybe it's too cute? Maybe it looks too much like a flying peacock?

    So I tried again.

    Hmmm, better!
    But given the layout of the rest of the website still not really working.


     Having a narrower header makes sense given my more
     consolidated border for my images
     but isn't it kind of weird to have the image bleed into the name?
     Shouldn't it be the opposite?


     Ok that's more like it.
     But now my links don't fit anywhere. So let's try moving my name up a bit.


      Very good!

      Uh, oh, but now Kaitlin just said it looks too girly! What's to be done?

      Should I desaturate?


     Should I change the hue?


     I'm tired!! How about we just compromise.

     So this is where I'm leaving it for now. Which one would you pick?