GRAPHICS & DESKTOP PUBLISHING PROJECTS GQ MAGAZINE LAYOUT TEXT ANIMATED TO MUSIC FLIPBOOK ANIMATION PHOTOSHOP MOCKUP COMPUTER WALLPAPERS Here is a sample of my desktop publishing work: the GQ LICHTENSTEIN ISSUE. Click images for a larger view. I designed a magazine layout modeled on Gentlemen's Quarterly in May of 2003. QuarkXPress was used to create each page, and the images were scanned from books or gleaned from the web. For this project, I also researched and wrote about Roy Lichtenstein, a 20th century pop artist who was a contemporary of Andy Warhol. All images and patterns in this piece were painted by the artist. For the Feature Article section, I created one page that was almost exclusively text, and one that included graphic elements. I used high-resolution samples of Lichtenstein's works along the left margins on these pages to add color and interest to the layout. Lichtenstein's works from the early 1960's were strongly criticized or strongly praised for their mass-produced, comic-book like appearance. I tried to emphasize the comic book style of the paintings I chose by using a tightly spaced grid layout for the photo page at left. I wrote the profile as a biography of the artist's life, and included his slightly cheeky self-portrait, which depicts Mr. Lichtenstein as a t-shirt and mirror.
	TEXT ANIMATED TO MUSIC Apple QuickTime Player is required to view this crude, small (944k) animation. This movie is text animated to music to tell a 30-second "story." WARNING: Profanity in song. The animations are rough, but minimalism was the idea. Each frame was created using only Adobe Photoshop. All sequencing, animation, and audio sync-up was done with Apple QuickTime Pro.
	FLIPBOOK ANIMATION This animated GIF looks simple, because it is. It was initially a hand-drawn flipbook that was scanned in and animated. The concept behind this project was that one letter (X) would transform into the other (Y) through a process that was relevant to both letters. That's why it Xplodes and burns in Yellow flames.
	PHOTOSHOP MOCKUP This image is a composite of myself next to a "martian" and an actual photo of the Mars Pathfinder in July 1997. The image manipulation was done in Adobe Photoshop 3.03. It was originally posted on my hilariously dated personal home page, which has not changed since late '97.
	WALLPAPERS / DESKTOP PICTURES     I created these wallpapers for my various computers over the years. Most are abstract, and all were created from my own photos through manipulation in Photoshop. This one started out as a picture of trees in Park Ridge, Illinois during a cold February. Note that the bar at left is designed to 'hold' the Mac OS X dock. I like bright colors, grids, and stripes. (Phœnix 500 is an alias of mine.) I also like how trees and skies look. The trees are from Wisconsin, and the sunrise is from Mississippi. This very basic design was created in January 2000 based on a photo taken behind my house. I tried to make it look as frigid as possible. Just a miscellaneous desktop picture, based on an abstract line drawing and pushed through Photoshop. The ones shown in here are from 2000 or later. I created dozens back in 1997 and 1998; click at right to view an archive of them.