don't mesh with us

Assignment: Form a group of 3-4 people. Make a visual identity to a volitional exhibition. This includes eg. logo, color scheme, font-family, posters, flyers, website, a magazine, a book, etc., anything we’d like to do.

Our team consisted of me, Antti Kekki, Eevi Rutanen and Matts Bjolin. We chose to do an exhibition about shoes and what kind of stories and memories their owner had about them.

This was the first poster we did - which shaped how the rest of the material looked

They may not be happy stories.

Poster "She didn't say 'I do'"

"I woke up with my face mangled"

The cover for our book.

This is also how the shoes would be displayed in the exhibition.

I was in charge of making the website for our exhibition. It was pretty fun to do and proved a nice challenge. I made it with Navo Slider which proved to be very handy and easy to use.

A postcard

Invitation to our exhibition.

Merchandise to sell in the exhibition store.

Small exhibition booklet.

Flyer

Overall, we were very happy with the results. There are some inconsistencies, but that’s mainly due to time restrictions and 4 people with a little bit different views working together. But nonetheless, I sure would want to check this exhibition if it really existed.

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My brother asked me to do a simple, one page webpage for him for upcoming winterseason. He’s doing janitor services, mainly clearing snow from rooftops and he’s starting to advertise soon.

It was a fun little project where I could combine my two favorite subjects: 3D and web design. I was amazed that nobody had registered talkkaripalvelu.fi domain yet. I think we were lucky!

I constructed it on 960px grid system, which is great. I configured a free shovel object in maya and made  a fast ambient occulsion render of it. The blue-grayish panel background is from the snow picture I had on earler post. Worked great here!

I think it’s enough for it’s targeted client group: It’s for middle-aged homeowners and elders who want help with janitor stuff. As somebody said to me, I couldn’t have gone wrong with tables, a starfield background, and a third clichéd old school element.

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Walking with a line in a perfect world

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Our school assignment here was to make a small book about “Walking with a line … “. Theme was humanity’s greatest hopes, eg. time travel, endless money.

My story tells about a man who finds a door in the middle of a rainy road. He opens it and finds himself in a pure, white world, where a line guides him through doors, giving him different superpowers. He’s excited at first, but realizes the powers disappear when he opens a new door and the powers don’t have any purpose in a perfect world. So he grows bored and goes back to normal world.

It was very tiresome to do all those pictures. They are rendered in maya (ambient occulsion, wireframe and the line in seperate renders) and colored manually (stupid me) in Photoshop. I also had to use a little bit of RealFlow and I had to learn some basic maya scripting to get the coins rolling randomly. This would work a lot better as an animation, but that’ll stay in the future.

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Remember the snow from last year? This is from Olympiastadion.

When I moved into my new apartment in Helsinki I didn’t have internet access for two days. Oh my god! The productivity it caused!

Well, I decided to reorganize my photos and I got inspired to tweak them in Lightroom. I saw the photos that had been gathering dust in my computer in a new, totally unexpected way and also processing RAW makes wonders to seemingly bad photos. These photos are from 2010 and 2011.

Töölönlahti

Kaivopuisto.

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maya + after effects

For some reason I couldn’t submit this to my tumblr, so I posted it here. Just testing maya animations and adobe after effects a bit!

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taik; realflow + maya rendertime 12 minutes in mentalray

I have nothing to say – except I freaking love RealFlow! This is an old model I did a few months ago, but never got to finish it.

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realflow + maya; rendered in 13 minutes in mental ray

3D anaglyph. View with red/cyan glasses for full effect. Modeled in Realflow + Maya. Rendered in mental ray in about 40 minutes.

School project. We had to choose an era of art and make one typographic picture, one figutarive and one with both text and image. I don’t have the figurative version here, because it’s not worth posting, but I’m pretty satisfied to these.

It was my first time using RealFlow so it took me a very long time to do these. The “3D” took me about 8 hours, because I couldn’t figure out h0w to import and export the meshes from realflow to maya and vice versa. The “new era” one took me about 5 hours.

Both of these were basically a simple container made in maya, exported to RealFlow, filled the container with particles, deleted the container, generated meshes with different liquid/gas values, imported back to maya, assigned lights, materials, background and rendered in mental ray and finally post processed in Photoshop.

I really like RealFlow. Can’t wait to experiment more!

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Old shit from 2007. Monotype.

I decided to start tumblrling. It is mostly for me to post crappy smart phone photos, random ideas, sketches and this and that.

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I think it’s enough said that these are from northern Lapland. These look like your generic nature landscape photographs. But, I was there. These are real places. And it makes me happy.

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School has started. But not at Rovaniemi anymore as I got into Aalto University to study graphic design. That’s a huge thing for me; I got to move back to Helsinki near my family and friends and I got to start studying the thing I love in a university that will hopefully offer everything for me to improve myself.

This week we’ve worked with photographers to make a panorama poster of Pasila. The panorama had to be at least 180 degrees wide, composed of individual photos and it had to include graphic elements and a text “CITYN1″. Either the photos or the graphic elements had to be black and white.

Heidi, Veera and I went to take photos at Ilmala train station:

I took these panoramas with my phone to help us visualize the field of view.

After we had taken the photos, we printed them out and laid them next to each other so they form a panorama. Then we added the graphic elements and the text, then took a photograph of the whole thing in a studio and then printed them out to 50cm x 250cm poster paper. Here’s our final image:

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The figures represent the cultural history of Pasila, namely the Helsinki graffiti motion which was strong in 80′s and 90′s. We decided to flip the whole photo to show that the most interesting places in Pasila aren’t usually plainly visible. You have to look for them and know where they are. If you can find them, you can see some beauty in the otherwise so gray, dull and concrete Pasila. It tells a story of our city.

If anybody’s wondering what’s going to happen to this blog now that I study graphic design here in Helsinki and Robert back in Rovaniemi, I can tell that we are going to keep updating like normal. But now we are able to follow what each of us do in different universities which will probably be very interesting. I have some photos from summer that I’m going to upload soon, one painting from Rovaniemi and lots of material from my upcoming studies.

It’s nice to be back from hiatus!

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