“It never rains but it pours!”
So they say …
But I know … better!
Life in the past few months threw some rather interesting challenges in my face.
I am not going to talk about these challenges as this is not a rant blog. However, I am going to talk about my latest project Rock Arabical, part of my work as an illustrator.
My background in radio, love of music and my work as a Disc Jockey, I’ve been working at Radio Jordan 96.3 FM since 2003, were the main reasons that I started this design series.
I am not a type designer but I am a t-shirt designer. I now have over 20 t-shirt designs and merchandise with Mlabbas, a t-shirt company based in Amman, Jordan.
Rock Arabica is a typography and logo design series through which I turned renowned rock band logos into Arabic ones.
The best part about producing these rock band logos was the challenge I faced in maintaining the spirit of the original design by using the geometry and angles of the original logos.
My project on Behance:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/Rock-Arabica-Vol-I-by-Sardine/14251713
The designs that you are about to see were all created using Adobe Illustrator CS5 (the construct of the type) and finished with Adobe Photoshop CS5 (the distress layer).
Remember: Never go full distress on a design as it is an overkill!
Hope you love them enough to buy the t-shirt ;-})
Mike V. Derderian,
Writer, Illustrator & Designer,
Sardine
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