Drawings and Comics
I love comics. I make cartoon-like sketches for my family, for holidays, birthdays and memorable moments.
This time I tried a multi-panel comic apology, for a forgotten birthday. Not sure the drawing is all that good, but my sister Sara forgave me anyway.
Variation on a theme
My first idea was to just put my business card on my stationery. However, I need to add my address and telephone number to the stationery. My card is meant as a gateway to my website, my stationery is meant for direct communications with an individual.
If I was going to use my card, then the darker gray box with my contact information would need to get
bigger, to make room for my address and telephone number. That meant I
would have to change the card design a little. Also, the function of a logo on stationery is different from a business card. It continues the identity, but it is secondary to the text above. It takes up only a part of a large white sheet, while my design fills the entire business card.
I came up with idea of using the business card design and “exploding” it for my stationery. The gray contact information box gets bigger and extends down and left, breaking out of
the original card. The purple rectangle is stretched to emphasize the width of the paper. And just for fun, the light gray rectangle pushes up above the card, creating a pinwheel motion. The size of the business card can be seen in the unchanged yellow rectangle and the background image.
It felt right to put it at the bottom, rather than the more traditional top-of-page location.
Note: If you double click on the image, you may need to Zoom Out to see the entire page inside its gray border.
You face the bottom of the stairs as you approach the deck from the house. The stairs are a little steep and narrow. They force you to look down,
rather than up at the view, as you walk up.
When you get to the top of the stairs, you look up and out to the view. As many times as I’ve been on the deck, this always comes as a surprise. No photo seems to do the view justice.
When you turn around, you are in another outdoor room. This room is defined by the rails, posts and curving awnings.
View looking down into our garden from the second floor. When you are on the first floor, you are within the garden. You are surrounded by the plants, shades and trees overhead. When you are on the second floor, you have views out for miles. It feels like you have broken through the surface of the ocean and can see out. Looking down from the deck, the plants on the deck, the shades and the plants on the ground form a sea
of green.
Photos of some details. The corner is also shown as a detail drawing in Part 2: CD’s.
Sunsets from the deck are terrific.
