http://amyrobinson.net/amyro Amy Robinson Designs Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:11:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After playing with a heart and down-pointing arrow combination I ultimately rejected, I did a little web-surfing and came across diagrams of the electron shells for the three minerals and combined them into a graphic that I ultimately tweaked into the new logo. There are currently four flavors of ... http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/08/01/enabiane/ The gradient background colors I appropriated from an image found over at Shorpy: The 100-Year-Old Photo Blog that I posted on at my personal blog. I used one of the more iconic shots of Gershwin, a photo by Edward Steichen, as the starting point for the illustrations, extending the ... http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/07/23/the-music-of-george-gershwin/ Initial sketches for the logo alternated between those incorporating elements of the building's architecture and the layout of the building and surrounding streets and others playing on the shape of the words in "2 Columbus Circle." Ultimately, I went with the latter concept, although the former concepts were used ... http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/07/11/2-columbus-circle/ Given the instruction to create a narrative based on a subject of personal interest, I decided to explore the evolution of my work through collage. My first instinct was to assemble all of the pieces that had some personal significance to me since the beginning of my design days ... http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/03/18/design-archives/ Just a fun little exercise in using different tools to create an illustration out of "nothing," or, in this case, a cocktail monkey and an eraser I won playing Skeeball at Coney Island. http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/02/18/mystery-machine/ The first thing I tried was just scanning all the pages and laying them out on the page, so that you could see the entire book and all of the clip art product on the cover, albeit in tiny, tiny form. It worked pretty well with the birds (right), ... http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/02/15/dover-design-library-decorative-bird-illustrations/ The first thing I tried was just scanning all the pages and laying them out on the page, so that you could see the entire book and all of the clip art product on the cover, albeit in tiny, tiny form. It worked pretty well with the birds (right), ... http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/02/15/dover-design-library-24-moderne-display-fonts/ The first thing I tried was just scanning all the pages and laying them out on the page, so that you could see the entire book and all of the clip art product on the cover, albeit in tiny, tiny form. It worked pretty well with the birds (right), ... http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/02/15/dover-design-library/ The thought here was just to create visual noise by having these overlapping circles consisting of the word "noise" in orange and blue. The noise crowds and envelopes the white space in the center. http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/02/05/acousticophobia/ http://amyrobinson.net/amyro/2007/01/25/janice-hoffmann/