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— Stanislaw Lem, Solaris
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
I am composing this in the morning, on my work computer. (I've used my work computer to post PaaT entries before, but usually at night or "in the wee small hours.") Considering the surroundings, I thought it might be of interest to show art that I have generated while at work at Net Access Corporation.
To the left is NAC's
logo, which I designed back in 1998. The base font was Garamond, but
the custom @ symbol got its start with an 'a' from another font. The
logo was created as vector art in Corel Draw and went through many
variations, many of which dealt with the question "Where do we put the
word 'Corporation?' This configuration was the best I could arrive at,
and I still consider it weak, but it's been functioning for six years
now, so there's little cause for complaint.
I've designed many
pieces of iconic art for NAC; to the right is one sample; the banner
for NAC's DSL page.
It portrays an ethernet cable as a flaming drag racer (the
non-technical are free to perceive it as a phone cord).But I don't want you to get the idea that I just work all day... Put an artist in a meeting, and the artist will doodle. Here's a few that I liked:
Here
I was trying to create a human figure in a sort of curlicue style
that I often employ in abstract doodling. I'm not sure what that is
that looks like it's coming out of the forehead. It's probably
just some simpler doodles that happened to be nearby. One
drawback of doodling is that you don't know where the drawing will end
up, so you can't block out space on the paper properly.
Is this a head, or a fragment of a landscape? I don't
know. What "Hpinz08 " refers to is likewise a mystery. It's
probably the name of a file or variable I was concerned with at the
time. Time to get to work. Until!
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