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Today’s Form over function is a first. A wallpaper dedicated to a machine. At Temple University we recently got rid of our oldest and most well worn Plotter, 4 foot wide printer, the machines was 7 years old, I have personally rebuilt many of its internal workings and have brought it back from the dead many times. They are only designed to last 4-5 years. Its strange to feel a sense of loss for a machine, but this machine has produced a good portion of the work for every student who has passed through this department in the past 7 years. For 4 of those years it was the sole method of printing documents this large. With an Impressive body of work to her credit Old Hickory (we name all machines after food we also have BBQ, Mesquite, and Cayenne ) had to be surplused for parts at the end of May.

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It has been way too long since I posted a FoF Friday. So I’ll give you a quick hit.

If you follow me on twitter you will know that I have been trying to get back into sketching. When i was in school for archeology I did a great deal of sketching, both of artifacts and of illustrations to practice. I wouldn’t say I’m great at it but I miss doing it. So i decided to try and get back into the swing of things with some simple Illustrations. I Picked a Birch Tree, a Pansy Flower and a Mum. All plants that live on campus and make great immobile subjects for a lunch time sketching break. Nice spring day, good breeze a cup of coffee and my book.

As for the Podsafe inspiration for today’s work, it wasn’t a music number at all but rather a podcast. I have been listening to Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel a good deal recently. I’m trying to catch up to his current show but i think I’m about 2 weeks behind. Mitch has an unbelievably smooth delivery and a great way of putting any concept into clear terms. If you are in any way interested in Digital Marketing then you need to listen to his show. His rather laid back style inspired the layout and the color choices on the images below I hope you like them.

Here are the three wallpaper’s I did last night. All sketched on the same page but made for better wallpapers apart.

Birch, Mum, Pansy in that order. Enjoy

Its time again for Form over function Friday. Where We like to emphasize a piece of design work for what it looks like rather than what it can do for you. I’m also always on the lookout for new wallpapers and open your eyes to some great Podsafe Music, and I love to create my own wallpaper while listening to the music. So I figured I’d share the wealth and hopefully you might find this interesting enough to use yourself. (more…)

Here again is a list of stories which just couldn’t fit into tonights festivities. But before we get to the list urge you to take a look at some of the stories we have covered over the past week.

1. Form over Function Friday : New Wallpaper Inspired by some great podsafe music
2. We can rebuild him… SteamPunk art : Tasteful art in a macabre light
3. Coffee Wars : A Low down on what shot have been fired and my take on Starbucks
4. Digital Tatoos : A Novel concept of under the skin connectivity laced ink

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I’m going to give this concept a thought. Since I do so much graphic design that doesn’t ever speak to me I’m going to try and release one design a week, on Friday for your enjoyment. please be gentle some of these may be a bit raw, and unworked. First up is a great wallpaper I designed while listening to some fantastic Podsafe music called The Delicate Art of Noise Pollution, by one Henk de Kruyff. Henk is good people, and does some awesome musical work. Check out his Blog and Podcast here. Its not unusual that while I’m playing around with Photoshop the music starts to affect the work coming out. A little angry art never hurt anyone. But this was a smooth tone, that calmed a lot of the frustration I was having in coming up with a good piece. I’m still not sure if its done But I welcome any feedback people would like to give.

Widescreen Version | Standard Version

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So thats it. Just a short little post on Fridays explaining how I came up with whatever I’m releasing and hopefully people will enjoy