The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts... ~Bertrand Russell
10 October 2007
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Published on October 10th, 2007 @ 11:57:25 pm, using 290 words, 10288 views
tec·ton·ic (těk-tŏn’ĭk)
adjective
1. pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth’s crust; “tectonic plates"; “tectonic valleys”
2. of or pertaining to construction or architecture
3. Medical term denoting plastic surgery or the restoration of lost parts by grafting.
This is the second image I designed in the Kybernetik series of cyberpunk graphic designs. This image is more closely representative of the typical elements found in cyberpunk art. It calls to mind those dark futures where meat and machine are merged in wetwired biotech, hardware implants, and the advanced grafting techniques reminiscent of the Matrix or the black clinics of Chiba City in William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer.
[click the thumbnails to view full-resolution swatches from the design]
This photo-manipulation project was carried out entirely in Photoshop CS2. It makes extensive use of high-resolution stock photography which has been layered atop the background image to add the impression of organic skin-graft textures. The photograph of the model making up the background of the composite is 2657x4000 pixels. The finished graphic design has a resolution of 100dpi and prints at approx 2.25 x 3.5 feet. Total time for this project is approximately 12 hours and was developed during my spare time in the evenings over the course of a week. The .psd file for this project is 335Mb.
Other images in the Kybernetik Series:
kybernetik: interstitial
Leave me a comment and let me know what you think… all opinions are welcome!
Contemporaneous Auditory Narcotics:
or, What my speakers are currently pumping…
Nurse With Wound - Spiral Insana
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05 October 2007
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Published on October 5th, 2007 @ 01:47:35 pm, using 525 words, 35855 views
The Hirideyo series of b2evo skins was originally developed alongside the ‘Smoothe’ series of blog templates which I designed for b2evolution 1.10.2. The Hirideyo series was designed for my friend Iris Watts Hirideyo’s blog site. She needed a place to publish her short writings and screenplay ideas, and we decided a blog might be the most favorable forum for her to do so. (Now that she’s learned more than just the basics of blogging, I think she’s becoming quite addicted to the medium.)
The Hirideyo series of templates reflects an Eastern motif, using such elements as rice-paper fans, cherry blossom branches, and stylized flower patterns. Since Iris is running her site as a single-blog system, these blog skins were designed for single-blog use, but can be altered for multi-blog use quite easily by adjusting only two lines of code in the CSS Stylesheet.
Click on the thumbnails to view larger versions of the skins, or visit Iris’ Journal for yourself and explore some of her writing and her thoughts.
Blue Fan (skin for b2evolution 1.10.x)
This was one of the first b2evo skins in the Hirideyo series which used a rice-paper fan in the header. I reoriented the stock photo of the fan, resizing and rotating it to a more interesting perspective, before layering a blueish hue on top of the original image.
Alright… so the color-scheme is a little more sea-green than blue… ;)
Flower Fan (skin for b2evolution 1.10.x)
This design also uses an image of a fan which has been resized and reoriented. The fan displays images of flowers, though I don’t know exactly what kind of flowers they are. This design is, I think, my favorite in the Hirideyo series for its several shades of blue contrasting with the black background.
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03 October 2007
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Published on October 3rd, 2007 @ 12:11:53 pm, using 360 words, 3812 views
I didn’t have a clear idea of the final image when I started this graphic design project, though I did know that I was seeking something representative of the cyberpunk genre and postmodern decay or an urban jungle. As I worked with an assortment of organic and non-organic textures to use as overlays in Adobe Photoshop, the image hidden within their blend began to reveal itself, and I had something more concrete to aim for. The final graphic design became, in my eyes, the image of a homeless street girl peering around the corner of a building, her face a mixture of weariness and wariness. The way her shoulder blended into the corner of the wall appears to resemble a skull, perhaps some type of stylized graffiti painted on the wall.
This is a photo-manipulation project designed entirely in Adobe Photoshop CS2 over the course of several nights and several hours of spare time. The image is 2657x4000 pixels and is, at full resolution, approximately 2.2ft wide by 3.5ft tall at 100dpi. The source image of the model was blended in Photoshop with several layers of organic and non-organic textures at varying opacity and mixing modes and later touched-up with an assortment of custom filters and brushes from my Photoshop toolkit.
[Click on any of the thumbnails to the right for a full-resolution swatch of the image…]
I’d love to hear some feedback on my graphic design and photo manipulation projects, so feel free to leave a comment. Let me know what you like, what you don’t like, etc.
If you have a high-resolution photo of yourself (preferably on a solid [black] background) and would like to see it transformed into a similarly styled design, get in touch. You’ll of course retain full credit as the model and I’ll retain credit as the designer/masher-upper. None of the work will be used for commercial purposes unless we agree beforehand to do so.
Contemporaneous Auditory Narcotics:
or, What my speakers are currently pumping…
Infected Mushroom - Cities of the Future (Promo)
This post is the creative work of Yours Truly and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
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