Other designers that inspire me

so, the assignment for this week was to find other designers that inspire us, our work. I’ll say this upfront, the sites I found, there’s a lot of variation on the styles of the artists, mainly because I like a wide variety of things, not just one aspect or style, I like to see the full range of ideas. Some of these have photo’s, some graphic design, sculpture, just various things. you have been warned.

The first contestant in my blog is in fact a graphic designer, by the name of Amanda Ohrt. Looking through her site, I found it pretty easy to use, to navigate around, and man is she good at photoshop. She does a lot of logos, signs, t-shirt designs, pretty much a lot of design and advertising, which looks phenomenal to me. As someone who will be doing many jobs like this later in my career, this is definitely a site I will be looking back at for a while, and one I would recommend for others to look at for inspiration.

http://www.amandaohrt.com/

The next contestant doesn’t use photoshop, or anything with computers as far as I can tell, she uses metal and clay, in her sculptures. This next person goes by the name of Pamela Dueweke. Her website is chock full of good info about her stuff, exhibits, how to contact, all that good stuff. Pretty easy to explore also, if you like to sculpt, or just like to look at sculpture, this is definitely a good site for that. Her works vary, some more abstract, some not, either way you like she has really good works, which I recommend anyone look at.

http://www.pdueweke.com/index.htm

The middle contestant in todays game also does a few various things: photography, painting, portraits, really interesting things. The person of which I speak is Lauren Olivieri. Pretty simple website, not a lot of options at the top, but it has what it needs for you to navigate around in it. uses various mediums for different looks of things, good stuff overall. Also has a various range of abstract to non-abstract works, like many of the people I found. good site to look at if you just feel like browsing around or whatever.

http://www.laurenolivieri.com/index.htm

The second to last highlighted person does very abstract, almost trippy drawings. This person goes by the name of Dominique Heffley. Very crazy looking works, really explores the extent of what the mind can create, does paintings, drawings, and greeting cards actually. I don’t think i’ve seen their stuff in the store, but I’m sure its somewhere, maybe in spencer’s or something like that. I think it’s interesting, not somehting I would draw like, but very interesting to look at.

http://www.dominiqueheffley.com/index.htm

And lastly we have artworks by Ricardo Vela, whose works are done by the camera, and by the computer using those photos.  Some of it looks painterly, really good look about them. He tries to go for the peaceful, serene, natural world, and really does it well. So if you like that look, of nature, peaceful, serene kind of stuff, this is your guy.

http://www.ricardovelaphotography.com/index.htm?music=1

As far as what I want to do for my personal identity project thing, I don’t know what exactly I want to do, but I like the more simple, clean look, not too much on the pages, but enough to give the feel of what I do, what I can do, and what I’m all about. With any luck I’ll figure it out before the class is over.

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