http://blog.senhordesign.com Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:01:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The image below represents the multicultural integration amongst the Americas. The hexagonal structure is symbol of cooperation and solidness, while all the hues of the colour spectrum used to colourize the Americas reinforce the concept of totality, related to all the Nations of this big continent. This artwork was used ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2009/07/13/americas/ Hey, this is the main piece of art which was printed and bound in London during Autumn and Winter (2008/2009). It was made by me and the independent artist, photographer and friend Guy Paterson, who teaches Alternative Photographic Processes at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London. ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2009/07/09/aluminium-sketchbook-london/ This is an example of image retouching I would like to share. This picture was taken using a small studio with natural light coming through a window during a sunny day in Brazil. The camera was a Nikon D100 (quite old but still very useful if you are not a ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2009/05/28/sunflower/ A friend and I decided to mix some creativity with the amazing snow in London, along 2 hours of hardworking. Our snowman was so cool that The London Paper decided to show it as one of the best of London. Visit the links below to see the photos: The London Paper ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2009/02/03/80/ These experimental photograms have been made with a simple scanner. The objects seen in the images are common magazines, but with the pages bent towards their own spines. The scanned images reveal a very interesting bi-dimensional aspect of a three-dimensional object - the magazine. The following images have been artificially ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2009/02/03/magazine-flowers/ These labels were made in partnership with DEP2, a renowned Advertising Agency in Brasília, Brasil. [img:Wine_Bottles_small.jpg,full,vazio] [img:detail_malbec.jpg,full,vazio][img:detail_vg.jpg,full,vazio] Malbec the France is a French wine from Cahors, specially elaborated for the South American Wine market. The label carries classical elements of traditional French wines as the Moulain and the Lis Flower, while some ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2009/01/24/wine-labels/ This pocket-size sketchbook is made of "bread and butter" paper and black and white photographic emulsion, which is also called "liquid light". After stroking each page with a flat brush and liquid light, and letting it to dry, the pages became light sensitive, ready to receive a photographic exposure or ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2009/01/09/black-white-sketchbook/ This poster is the proposal for the 31st International Summer Course of Brasilia's Music School, in Brazil. It talks about art, music, compositions, rhythms, colours, emotion, expression... Everything that participants really get in touch during the event. [img:31_poster_offset.jpg,full,vazio] details [img:detail01.jpg,full,vazio][img:detail02.jpg,full,vazio] http://blog.senhordesign.com/2009/01/05/31st-summer-course-brazil/ This poster is dedicated to the most important Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. [img:full_poster.jpg,resized,vazio] The coloured stripes use "Brazilian colours" as main palette. The halftone image is used to dissolve dark into high tones, transforming the coloured stripes into Villa-Lobos portrait, leaving the paper itself as pure light. The typography is based ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/11/13/villa-lobos/ Sketchbook again. [img:keep_thinking_1_2_FLAT.jpg,full,vazio] http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/11/08/keep-thinking/ Official posters for the 29th and 30th editions of the International Summer Course of Brasilia’s Music School, in Brazil. The vector based images represent the new areas that were included in the scope of 29th's edition, acoustic bass and brass orchestra. The two figures are important composers, specially awarded on ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/11/06/random-ornament/ Photoimage: pre-press company and other specialized printings. [img:Photoimage_1.jpg,full,vazio] Concept: Photoimage is strongly related to the transformation of digital pixels into printed dots. When going to press, all digital imagery from design studios and agencies are ripped, a process in which the pixels became virtually printable dots. This main idea leads the hole ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/11/03/photoimage-business-cards/ This image is a simulation of a photogram generated from the hexagon pattern in three states (top to bottom): positive, negative and another version of the first positive. This geometric pattern was created from the repeated rotation of a simple hexagon. To create the spherical look, the rotation centers were ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/11/01/hexagon-print/ Experimental stuff created in January 2008, during some free time at a great Creativity+Contemporary Art course in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Procedência e Propriedade). Below: cigarette stuck on sketchbook / after burning / high contrast drawing. [img:sample540px.jpg,full,vazio] Sequence of burned pages of sketchbook. [img:all_steps.jpg,resized,vazio] Detail. [img:cigar_draw_30_small.jpg,full,vazio] http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/10/31/cigar-drawing-1/ I have made some illustrations which were used in Urban Review t-shirts. Click on the image below to see them. I want to see photos of the t-shirts [img:Ilustra_UR_main.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_kombi.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_bureaucr.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_glasses.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_pingkong.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_bar_code.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_mandalla_cake.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_road_industry.jpg,full,vazio] http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/10/30/urban-review-illustrations/ These four photograms were made inside a darkroom with some translucent objects and light sensitive paper. The combination of the objects is completely unexpected but their shapes have some similar formal aspects. The four compositions were intuitively made. [img:photograms1to4.jpg,full,vazio] [img:photogram01.jpg,full,vazio] [img:photogram02.jpg,full,vazio] [img:photogram03.jpg,full,vazio] [img:photogram04.jpg,full,vazio] http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/10/30/cameraless-photography/ Language Partners asked me to make the design for a flyer to be used in a couple of events to promote University of the Arts London in Brasília, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through October 2008. The typographic image was created by the meeting of parallel lines that ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/10/30/illustration/ Was created to be an inspiration to produce fine quality t-shirts talking about the urban culture. Each t-shirt is designed to reach a fashionable and unique mood. The photographs were taken near Waterloo Station, London. Click on the images below to see the photos. [img:ur_01.jpg,full,vazio] [img:detail_ur05.jpg,full,vazio][img:detail_ur04.jpg,full,vazio] [img:detail_ur01.jpg,full,vazio][img:detail_ur02.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_03.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_04.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_06.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_08.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_12.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_10.jpg,full,vazio] [img:ur_11.jpg,full,vazio] http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/10/29/urban-review/ Hi everybody, as you can see, the old blog's gone. New content will often be added to the new blog. To understand what's going on, visit the ABOUT content. Some old pictures can be found at the links below. Here we go. Some Old Pictures xLDFx | Special Hope to see you again. Enjoy the ... http://blog.senhordesign.com/2008/10/29/this-blogs-been-modified/ [img:light_stencil1.jpg,full,vazio] Picture taken for my graduation project and 1st graphic design portfolio, in 2004. The background was made by a white waved card. The red light comes from the reflection of the dark red fabric used to cover the scene and isolate background surface from external lights. 13sec. exposure, FujiFilm iso400. [img:light_stencil2.jpg,full,vazio] Detail. http://blog.senhordesign.com/2007/03/30/projecao-luminosa-2/