Cut And Paste by JeremyMallin
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Description
This is how my desk used to look before I started doing everything on the computer. I like the irony of depicting manual layout design digitally.
If you haven't guessed, the ad is fake. I made it up. Other than that, all the objects are common commercially available art tools that I use, although the lamp is a hybrid of two different lamps I used to own.
Everything was modeled and rendered with Lightwave in 2009. I was amazed at how quickly this rendered. I'm still getting used to playing with all the rendering settings. I'm also starting to get better with using textures more instead of relying so heavily on detailed geometry.
All the image maps were designed with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop in 2009. This was my first use of homemade image maps.
The ad itself was designed with Adobe Illustrator, In-Design and Photoshop. Multiple stock photographic images purchased from Jupiter Images were used in the ad.
All the logos were recreated in Adobe Illustrator and are registered copyrights of their respective owners, used here for non-commercial purposes under fair use laws.
Some of the products pictured may be patented or copyright of their respective owners, and are used here for non-commercial purposes under fair use laws.
Comments (8)
ragouc
Very good composition. Happy Holiday Season.
tennesseecowgirl
nice work.. Happy Holidays
koosievantutte
i know all that kind of stuff from many years of use. the computer helps to speed up the process considerably (but i still miss the old parfernalia) very fine image.
M2A
Cool desk work.
RodS
Ah, the good ol' days... X-acto knives, paste, cutting mats and Pantone chips. Great concept and execution! Happy Holidays!
JeremyMallin
I still have my set of little Pantone flip books, but I don't do a ton of print work anymore. Lately people mostly want Web work. I love getting out the old tools and designing just for the fun of it sometimes though. I also love the bewildered look on people's faces when I try to explain the etymology of expressions like "cut and paste". 'You know, in the old days we actually used to cut and paste for real.' :) Another fun one to explain to people is what leading is. They have a feel for what it means from using word processors but have no idea why it's called leading. 'In the old days they used to print text with small metal or wooden blocks of letters. To get additional spacing between the rows of text they would insert actual slivers of lead between the rows of text. Hence the term, leading.' Doesn't it seem like yesterday? It's hard to believe that thirty years ago very few companies, and even fewer designers, even had computers. I personally know local design firms that didn't start using computers till the last ten years. Even as someone's who has been using computers for graphic design work since the early 1980s, I'm still continually amazed by what current commercial software and hardware is capable of. I often tell people that even simple computers can do amazing things with graphics, but I was really impressed when I came across Renderosity recently and saw the stunningly photo-realistic work people post here, especially with Poser and character work. When I was in school, we were taught crude solid modeling packages that could generate wireframe images only; and back then people thought that was amazing.
petes
Now you need the wax machine and press on type...and a giant stat machine..and thinner! ...and if i remember, the desk would be all mucked up because the glue from the type stuck to the desk and it would get black over time.. ...ahh.good times..
Helleshoj
Nostalgia. Did work like that kind of work for many years. Years ago. 1992 the computer becae my tool and has been ever since. Nice picture.