I was asked to make a logo to put on the tickets, posters and programs for this year’s annual med ball (big fancy dinner & dance). This year’s theme is “Big City, Bright Lights,” so I went with a bit of a NY thing (I’m pretty sure that’s what the organizers were thinking too).
And Helvetica Light, because it’s a fancy event*.
*This is a reference to the movie Helvetica, where it was argued that you can use Helvetica for everything, and if it’s a fancy event, just use light or extra light.
A slightly tweaked version from before, I wanted to limit the number of colours to make the design more affordable. I also changed the ECG trace on the front so that it’s actually one that would be generated by a pacemaker. The back is also a specific trace, but I’ll let people try to figure that out.
One of my very good friends (Hi Kait!) is participating in her second MS Bike Tour this month. Being a good neuroscience grad, her team’s name is homunculus. The homunculus is a sort of cartoon where the features of the little man are proportional to their representation in the brain, to boot it was characterized by Wilder Penfield, a Canadian! (and the doctor who helped found the Montreal Neurological Institute)
Penfield’s sensory and motor homunculi
Kait wanted something she could stencil onto her team shirts, so I did this simple little homunculus riding a bicycle (the bicycle was harder to get right than the homunculus). I’ll hopefully get some photos of her and her team wearing the shirts to post later!
MS is a pretty devastating disease, and is very prevalent in Canada, so if you want to donate to the MS society of Canada, sponsor a bike team, or bike yourself, please check out their website!
I saw over at Moderncat a link to a Martha Stewart catnip mouse made out of old menswear. The pattern was pretty cute so I decided to make one myself out of left over fabric from the throw pillows I made. I stuffed it with some spare raw wool roving and plenty of catnip. Needless to say it’s been a huge hit, but I’m not sure how long it will last since they’ve been pretty rough with it already.
Mike and I are back from what can only be called a weekend shopping extravaganza. Oh yes, and we visited our good friend too. As for the shopping, one of the niftiest things we picked up was the Brain Freeze ice “cube” tray.
Image from Fred
We’ve already made many brains and I must say, the tray works very well and the brains look awesome when they come out. I also think that we’ll be able to use the tray for other things such as jello and maybe even chocolate.
About exactly a year ago, one of my good friends gave me a dress so I could jazz it up. Almost a year went by, and I thought, “eek, I should probably get around to doing something with that…”
So I decided to paint (freehand) a nice peacock feather on it. Then of course, half way through, I was holding the little well of paint over the dress and the inevitable happens: I spill the paint. After a little bit of a freak out, I figured, that there maybe should be two feathers.
The dress itself is a dark red, I’ll see if I can get some action shots of it this weekend.
I while back I designed the logo for this year’s meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain Behaviour and Cognitive Science. The tote bag and the t-shirt both turned out very well, however Mike and I got around to using the tote bag for groceries before I could get a nice photo of it. So then last week comes around and I think “I should take a picture of that, too bad it’s so wrinkly.” So I did what any person would do with something wrinkly: iron it.
Bad, bad idea. I know that they’re made of polyester, and I had set the iron to an extra low setting, however when I just touched the iron to the bag they immediately became one. Thus I now needed a new bag and a new iron.
The new iron still needs to happen, but luckily Mike was able to snag an extra bag from the psychology department this week and I finally got around to taking a photo, no ironing required.
That’s right, I took the time to erase the background and make it fancy
I’m working on the o-week t-shirts for the new class (though the second years get to wear them too, so I must say I had a little bit more of a vested interest in making them super spiffy). The idea from the committee was a play on the musketeer’s all for one and one for all motto, since after all, this is the class of 2014. Get it? 1-4! 14! I based it off the classic movie poster from way back when, except I made them doctors. Sort of. They are if you look close.
All doctors should wear extravagant hats with giant feathers. I swear, the style should be brought back.
Mike and I painted our kitchen last weekend. Nothing exciting, it’s the same grey off-white as the rest of our place. No pictures yet though, I’m working on it, Nina.
I was commissioned by one of the psychology labs at Dal to design a new logo for their lab. They do a lot of work in schools so they wanted something that they could put on their letters to principals and something more colourful for posters and their website.
This is just another quick thing I whipped up for a document on inventive ways that children can make instruments at home. The idea is that they can string up different kitchen utensils and pots of different sizes to create different tones.
The other idea included in the document is about making pan pipes out of PVC pipes, which I think is also pretty cool. Though I know a variation of that (not included in the document) is to fill up a bunch of beer pop bottles with different amounts of water.
