Re-imagining NAU: crest / coat of arms.

In the Spirit of T-shirt designs.

Here is a design for a hoodie I put together.

It was cool to get a print out of it.

This idea has to do with Northern Arizona University's

School pride which stems from it's location in the city of

Flagstaff, Arizona.

If you don't know too much about Flagstaff it is located

7,000ft above sea level, nestled in the shadow of the San

Francisco peaks. The climate is very distinct from the rest

of the state of Arizona, in that it experiences all four seasons

of the year, including snow. lots of snow.

Flagstaff was established upon the lumber industry.

The mascot for NAU is the Lumber Jack. That explains

the first design with the axe. The second has to do with

the large crows local to the area. Big beautiful birds.

Seemed appropriate for the medieval style coat of arms.

The final result was a tone-on-tone metalic black ink on a dark grey hoodie:

Enso Launch

I just got the images back from the Enso Apparel launch from Facebook.

The T's came out nice. Thanks Malena!

Her post on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2179412&id=27704101

Here's the link to the design post for these tee's:

http://rafaeltapiaiii.blogspot.com/2010/04/celestial-entity.html

RIP F.Frazetta

Attended an impromptu Drink N' Draw social club meetitng in

memory of Frank Frazetta's passing.

http://www.missioncomicsandart.com/

The face on this character:

Live models in costumes and reference costume:






Mini-gun and Scepter props:

Toast and cheers to the late great!

The Illusion of Choice

Went to the "BIKE-IN" MOVIE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE at Whole Foods in Oakland

http://ebbc.org/?q=node/6849.

Brian brought out the Bamboo Bike his crew built

http://bamboocollective.org/

Hosted by East Oakland Bicycle coalition and other bicycle culture organizations. It was a little cold but pretty fun.

The folks in the background are there watching a flick on the modern food

processing industry Food Inc. One of the memorable positions from the

film is the illusion of choice stemming from the abundance of food products

in every grocery store, yet mostly all owned by a small number of companies.

The creeper shot
oh! & a couple of marker fresh stickers: (the white balance is off, but I don't mind the super saturated colds) "lickin the streets clean."

Radii (ray-dee-eye)

I did some pro bono work for Brian Drayton Executive Director of

Richmond Spokes http://sites.google.com/a/richmondspokes.org/about/.

Richmond Spokes is a youth empowerment non-profit organization promoting

bicycle safety and sustainability through bicycle culture. I am helping Brian with

some avatars and icons that can be used throughout his organization’s identity.

I truly believe in organizations such as these. They are an awesome touching point

for the community to see how these crafty cyclists can positively impact their

environment. So far they set-up bicycle parking at huge local events mostly around

the East Bay area.

I wanted to re-do his radii concept and rotate the avatar to show movement.

Here are some of the stuff I came up with:

This is the one he chose as a main composition:




I like this one a lot. i can see this being used for different situations.

Homage and archive

Direct to paper inks drawings:

Homage to the homeless

(gold fronts)


sticker from the archive

Good night kiddos!