Nostalgic Designs

I used to play with Photoshop alot back in high school and through my early years of college. Ever since Photoshop 4.0 came out onto the market.

I would take my drawings, scan them, and start coloring them on, even what was then, a very powerful program. The process was grueling back then, especially since I was working on a 33MHz-486 Intel processor, but I enjoyed it and didn’t mind the long lag of load time.

Dino (a friend of mine) and I were discussing earlier this evening about an old concept magazine cover I did for him back in I believe was 2000/2001. Looking at it now, it doesn’t seem like much, but at the time, it was one of those “WOW” moments. The Alicia Keys picture was grabbed off of some random website that he found, which was of very, very poor quality and extremely grainy and noisy. I now couldn’t tell you how I did it, but I somehow performed some Photoshop some magic and made it a bit more pleasing to view.

One of my fellow DJ buddies, Frankie (DJ Pumbum), was having a birthday party in which it was the 2nd party to be released under the name Pumbash, and it just so happened to not be too long after the release of the PS2 (hence the PB2). Anybody could’ve done the design, but it was one of those ideas that just somehow sparked up. I can’t take full credit, I’m sure somebody did come up with the idea (possibly even Frankie), but I think this is probably one of my favorites.

The last two presented are probably by far my favorites. Maybe not too much to look at, but I felt with the amount of time and work I put into the flyer, I was very proud of its outcome. There was so much detail, from designing the 3D Texas image, to the random vertical lines that were actually lines of details about the party, and the blurry images in the background. I think I have a few physical flyers for this party left somewhere, I’ve just got to dig them out.

With a few new purchases recently, Pixelmator and VectorDesigner (yeah, it’s not photoshop and illustrator, but they seem to get the gist of what I want to do, and fast!), I hope to get involved again with a few new designs here and there, maybe even get some visually appealing websites going.