My fifth self-designed christmas card already! For this year’s card, I decided to explore the combination of one my previous designs, featuring squares with a vertically transitioning horizontal skew, with the shape of a christmas tree. My first sketch was in basic green and white. To make the final design a bit more joyful, I added yellow and swapped the colors. In addition, I made the transitions more complex by also including one that increases from the middle of the image towards both sides.
Personal logo
My first quick-and-dirty logo was a simple randomized 3D-cube, in purple of course. Recently, I started thinking about a more personalized version of my logo, inspired by the result of a graffiti workshop. I created the letter ‘L’ and the number ‘1’; which, when pronounced together in Dutch, form my first name: Leen. Combining my previous logo with L1 resulted in a very cool new logo that I am very happy with: it spells my first name, it has a 3D-effect in it, and it contains randomizations!
Applications web page
Lately, I have been using my designs for more and more different kinds of applications: a lot of greeting cards, but also clothing, mugs, and other stuff. To make all of this easier to discover on my website, I have created a new web page with all these applications, grouped by type. You can find it here, including two new additions: a thermal mug, and a boxershort!
Own-design sweather
Today I received my very first own-design sweater in the mail. It took some time to find the right combination of production technique and supplier, but the final result of my cut & sew all-over-print sweater is really cool! The design gives the impression that the sweater is twisted around your waist, while it’s not. Of course, the pattern is non-repeating; every side is completely different.
Morphing shapes
Inspired by the shape transformations that I created last year, I decided to start experimenting with a different way of making these kind of designs. With transformations, I started from a specific shape, transformed it based on mathematical formula, and became amazed by what came out of it. Now, I start from two specifc shapes, and visualize all the shapes that are in between by morphing one shape into the other.
Just to get things going, I made a simple design with one-directional morphing of a vertical bar into a horizontal bar. Once I got that one right, I started playing around with more complicated designs, using two-directional morphing and more elaborate shapes.