Thursday, December 4, 2008

Ideas, ideas...

Even though it was obvious that I would be putting on more shows after the debut of Illustrious Pink Elephants, I knew that they were from thus forth going to be themed.  What those themes where I had a general idea of but nothing concrete.  Issues with the environment, child labour, organs being bought on the black market and so forth were such concepts.  And then earlier today I had a thought.  What if I were to do these shows, 7 to be exact on the seven deadly sins.  Each sin being clearly described, but with a twist.  Not really portraying the concepts as sins to God perse, but things that are happening around the world that we may not know about, or do know and refuse to do anything about.  For example, Gluttony could be our hunger for technology.  Lust; our obsessive compulsions to be "beautiful" and what we go through to obtain it.  Greed; our unsustainable hunger for natural resources.  Sloth; alcoholism, eating disorders, ect.  Wrath; domestic abuse, suicide, ect.  Envy; the corruption of political systems and Pride; could be the last or first sin described, with an overview of a lot of the previous sins; dealing with consumerism, obsessions with weight, eating disorders, depression, sexual preference, ect.  I have to think more on it, but I really think this is where I want to go with these shows.  Please feel free to comment or add suggestions!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

clearly can't make up my mind

i recently bought a book on graphic design promo art and fell in love-with everything in it.  and all i kept thinking to myself was, man i should have picked this up before i designed my cards, because now i want to re-design them because i clearly can't make up my mind.  so this is what i did, just playing around in photoshop the other day.  i think i'll probably go with this new design when i decide to get more cards made.  arg!