etsy sale: Fragments of Urban Typography

Posted: Saturday,18th January, 2014 | Author: lakazdi | Filed under: photography, typography | Tags: etsy, poster, sale, urban typography | Leave a comment

“Proliferation of Digital Typeface in the Urban Environment”

Fragments of Urban Typography is available to purchase from Etsy.com

postcard design

Posted: Tuesday,17th December, 2013 | Author: lakazdi | Filed under: graphic design, photography, typography | Tags: design, photography, postcard, typography | 1 Comment

A postcard I designed to post out to friends and family. I decided to make the text “cheesy postcard style” which I enjoyed creating. I am also riding my bike wearing a dress that designed and sewed.

The secret with the text was the selection tool to get space inside the type and deleting the inverse from photographs. These shapes of photograph are in layers behind the black text. I also used the selection and expand options to apply a white edge on the inside and the outside of the text. This was the most time consuming part of the process.

This was a fun, simple project which only took me an hour from start to print!

Album Covers

Posted: Monday,23rd April, 2012 | Author: lakazdi | Filed under: digital illustration, graphic design, photography, Project, typography | Tags: album, art, cover, design, digital illustration, DJ, gimp, internet images, internet logo, music, original, photography, portable music device, quick design, scan logo, screen shots, typography | 1 Comment

Today I have been organising my portable music device. The main reason was to have new music and to make sure each song had a cover, as a visual person it is easier for me to store a visual database and and aural database. There were some songs/DJs/albums that just did not have a cover – or not one worth putting on a portable music device.

I designed some covers based off a quick google image search to find a picture that I liked and sometimes I grabbed a logo. Some were created from my own photography or digital illustration. Here is the few that I made.

Original photography

from an internet image

From internet image

from original digital illustration

from original photography and logo scan

from internet image and internet logo

from internet image

from internet image and internet logo

These were all created in GiMP with each cover taking no more than 10 minutes to create.

(I will come back and put links/credits to the original internet images)

light play photoshop

Posted: Tuesday,17th April, 2012 | Author: lakazdi | Filed under: photography | Tags: black border, editing, layers, light, light drawing, manipulation, photography, photoshop, wall paper | Leave a comment

I just found this on one of my drives. This is taking one of the light play photographs and using layers in photoshop to make something interesting. I used this as a wallpaper.

multiples layers of same image

old wallpapers

Posted: Monday,16th April, 2012 | Author: lakazdi | Filed under: graphic design, photography | Tags: 1024 x 768, fractal, layers, original, photography, photoshop, typography, vector illustration, wall paper | Leave a comment

Putting this old wallpaper on here made me open the folder full of these old but still lovely wallpapers. These are all mostly made with photographs that I have taken or fractals I generated and multiple layers in photoshop.

The caption is the name of the wallpaper and also the foundation of what made it.