Author: thehoffmanian

You can never look at the Masters enough, I can always learn and be inspired by looking at the lines, the ways in which they represented form and shape, and mass, etc…. I was drawing in a sketch book and this is what happened, I will have to tell you about my trip to the British Museum in London some day, it sends chills down my back just thinking of it – here’s to history.

The Sustainable show was nice, that is about all I can say, some great things to see and some interesting things on the horizon with the flavour of sustainablity all over it. Emily Carr was nice enough to set up some students with a booth and I was fortunate to be able to participate, I am thankful for the opportunity – the downer is that my magazine was stolen from the show – a one off, over priced, recycled paper printed, portfolio material, type magazine. If it is sitting on you coffee table you owe me $48 mother%$#&%@&!^()#er

Well it’s that time of year when you get to buy flowers, chocolate, and rent that sad – I mean mushy movie. Right? For some I guess its a reality for others – Pick up a copy of Momentum Magazine at your local pedal power shop or caffeine fueling station and chill out away from the rain drops of winters passing in the bike lane.

So I am working on a conceptual model about time, actual moments in time vs. time spent waiting on those actual moments. These few blocks on illustration board are concept models for the project. There are ten blocks of time for this model, I will show a more complete set up once Russ and I get our blocks in a row so to speak.

So this guy I know travels through time and he brought me back this poster from a bike race…..His name is Desmond Burns – do you know him – you should.

So instead of writing design notes in the sketchbook, whose dumb idea was that. I thought I would go out on a limb and just for Fun-zies I thought I should draw in it…..I may do this more – its good for the soul

Playing with type is serious business, and when things are serious you should make trading cards, Thanks Peter such a great idea. Tell with email why you think this is not as successful as it could be and I will post the final one. Cheers Tyopo geeks.

This page was too much fun, I got to play with army guys, toy trucks, used motor oil, typography, design, photography, and it was all in the name of environment, email and I will tell you all about it

So these are a few spreads from a project on Art Direction, the famous Jim was my partner in crime and seeing a finished publication that works as a unit was nice. There are many places where we could now improve on but the Magazine “DONE” is still successful in many ways.

This was such a fun project from about 2 years ago but I go back to this character to tell stories, his name is Little Johnny Ford and the story is about the idea of Ford making a Cadillac, its all done in paint on canvas, and bound together as a book, The texture in the object is where the real value is here specifically, the type and design is where I have focused my creative juices since that time, my passion for stories and texture remains the same. Seems like a good combination to me.