There is a constant, nagging little voice in the back of my head that is always saying the same thing:

“Make something.”

As often as I can, I oblige. It keeps me inspired, it helps me find new techniques and explore new ideas, it gets that voice out of my head for at least a short time. The results aren’t always great. In fact, rarely are they great, but I keep doing it for the simple reason that making is part of things. It just needs to be there.

In the spirit of unfiltered, random creation, I’ve put together the Unender Visual Stream, which is basically a place for me to post things that I’ve made, which have no other purpose than to simply exist. A lot of them are photos I’ve taken with different cameras, some are hand-made, some are techniques I’m exploring in Photoshop. I’ve been doing it for a month or so now, and here are some of my favorite bits of creative ephemera.

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Back in April I started working on another packaging project for The Criterion Collection. This time it was for the Guy Maddin film “Brand Upon The Brain!” It was a lot of fun and, as usual, everyone at The Criterion Collection was great to work with.

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This is the first in a series of posts about type. I was recently given an assignment to create a teaser poster advertising a shoe drive for the United Way. No time, no budget, just a headline. So I sketched up some ideas, bounced some ideas around with my friends/co-workers Sean and Steve and came up with the idea of using shoes to spell out the headline (which is “Let Somebody Else Walk In Your Shoes”). Another co-worker and I collected shoes from friends and fellow employees and shot simple digital photos of the letters set on common surfaces where people often walk – bathroom floor, the sidewalk, bedroom carpet, etc… Using a variety of shoes in the poster serves as a reminder of how many shoes most of us have sitting in our closet. Using objects to create letters is obviously nothing new, but this execution seems particularly well suited to this message. This is only the first draft, so hopefully for the next round we will have the opportunity to tighten it up and add some more shoe shots to the mix.

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