Perfect

Yesterday I passed the color test on www.xrite.com
And it said: “You have perfect color vision!”
It took 14 minutes and I didn’t make any mistakes. .it was nice... maybe I was underestimating myself too much.


I don’t want to write about personal things… but…it’s so related to the topic…on September 21 I became an aunt of little Ruben. Yesterday I saw his photos and he was definitely perfect!

Children of Picasso

My mood controllers of the day are Claude and Paloma Picasso. More exactly, it is their photo by Richard Avedon (1966).
She has calm and innocent face, he has strong hand of his father. They both have wonderful lips and a profound wisdom in their eyes.

She has become a famous fashion designer, started her own company and brand, produced her own perfume and a line of evening wear, designed jewelry for Tiffany & Co.
He has become a great photographer, worked for "Conde Nast", the publisher of "Vogue", and other magazines.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Claude et Paloma dessinant.
Pablo Picasso (1950) Paloma and Claude, Children of Picasso.

Every day there is an exhibition of Picasso somewhere in the world.

Banksy

Today I’ve discovered Banksy, well-known pseudo-anonymous British graffiti artist. I like the way he represents his point of view on different topics like politics, culture,society and others.





http://www.banksy.co.uk/

Static vs Dinamic

"A new, modern approach to visual brand identification. This is the world's first dynamic logo!"




See the details about new brand of Troika Dialog(largest private investment bank in the CIS):

http://troika.ru/eng/Our_New_Brand/index.wbp

My first icons

These are my first icons that I made in Adobe Photoshop. Before that I was using Illustrator for that purposes…but then I decided to try Photoshop as well.

Confession

I’m in web design about a year, but as I haven’t any art background, it’s very hard for me to make an icon or to draw something. I can imagine it in my mind...Just close my eyes and see the way it should be, but when I started to make it my imagination doesn’t work. So I have to open different icon stocks to see how other people did it. I have to confess that before starting to work I’m still searching for images and trying to find different techniques and sometimes even copy them. It’s very ashamed for me to confess such things, but I think this is the only way to learn.
Recently I was making icons for a bank which they didn’t approve. The waves on each icon represent part of their logo.

LHC

Today everyone is talking about LHC. And I’m excited about that as well.
Large Hadron Collider is the largest particle accelerator in the world. Today it’s going to be switched on and it‘ll be the first attempt to circulate a beam in it.
The main purpose of the experiment is to explore the theory of Big Bang(the standard model of particle physics) by colliding two beams of protons, which will generate temperatures more than 100 000 times hotter than the heat of sun and the detectors will observe the collision. This 27km-long scientific instrument will definitely change our conception of the Universe and its origin.
It’s said that there is a chance that this collider could produce “mini” black holes that could damage the Earth. There are a lot of "anti-LHC" materials in the internet(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzugu39pKM&feature=related), even a movie was shoot(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1vKisefsuI), and I think nobody has a 100% assurance of success, but there is a big percent that after a while new theories will appear in physics text-books.

See live webcast: http://webcast.cern.ch/

abeautifulrevolution.com

http://www.abeautifulrevolution.com/blog/

Making autumn illustration

What do we imagine when we think about autumn?
I've decided to write down all my feelings, emotions and associations…and here is my list:

1. Leaves of green, yellow, red colors
2. Flocks of birds fling to the southern parts
3. Wind
4. Rain
5. Umbrellas
6. Acorns and strobiles
7. Rustling leaves
8. Empty benches
9. Running people

16x16

After spending three days making icons of 16x16 sizes, I began to rasterize what I see. I can’t resist myself not thinking about Eyedropper, Eraser and Color picker in real life. Maybe it’ll be great to have a Magic Eraser Tool to delete some black lines from the past day or to change my tired skin tone to shiny one with rosy cheeks :)